Drabble by Kevin Fagan for September 16, 2014
September 15, 2014
September 17, 2014
Transcript:
June: Ralph, once you start researching your ancestry, you can't stop! It's fascinating! I've discovered that I'm a distant relative of Abraham Lincoln! Ralph: How about me? Am I related to anybody interesting? June: Let's just say your family tree has a few squirrels!
dadoctah about 10 years ago
So, he’s related to Mrs Abraham Lincoln?
Observer fo Irony about 10 years ago
My genealogy chart would like an apple orchard instead of a single tree thanks to the bastard step child 5 generations ago.
Fido (aka Felix Rex) about 10 years ago
Perhaps a better punch line (or at least not as predictable) was that Ralph was related to John Wilkes Booth.
platechick about 10 years ago
Does anyone else remember the Frasier episode where he and Niles researched their family tree? Best line: “Not only are we NOT related to any of the royal family – we are descendants of thieves and whores!”
hippogriff about 10 years ago
I had a cousin on each side who were quite competent in this field, but I never saw a copy of either’s. I know most of my gene pool blew over from northwest Europe in the 1700s, but most of my American ancestors come from those who walked and/or paddled over from Siberia 8-10,000 years before that.
wondra about 10 years ago
That’s funny.
Jaythor 12 months ago
And her side has all the nuts.