What's your "Ask The [blank]"?

In My Humble Opinion
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Hmmm… I’ll consider it. Maybe over Easter, when I have a couple of days off from school and enough time to give the topic the attention it deserves.

I’m from Mississippi, but my Melungeon ancestors hailed from Tennessee.

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Originally posted by mooka
I’d be very interested in the Melungeon thing. I’d have a general interest in the nobility thing too. I never knew that the Shah of Persia was distantly related to King Henry 8th! Is this kind of thing common? I know european royalty is quite closely connected, but i did think it went outside europe…

Another vote for the Melungeons! I had no idea they were so popular.

The genealogies are fascinating – you’d be surprised who crops up. Genghis Khan has several descents into European royalty, there’s a possible line from the Prophet Muhammad, etc. Most of the non-European connections come through the Byzantine Empire (whose daughters married not only European kings, but also Muslim sultans). Shah Ismail and Henry VIII were related as follows:

Emperor Alexios I Komnenos of Byzantium m. Eirene Dukaina
Isaakios Komnenos, sebastocrator m. unknown
Emperor Andronikos I m. unknown
Manuel Komnenos, sebastocrator m. unnamed princess of Alania
Emperor Alexios I of Trebizond m. Theodora Azuchina
Emperor Manuel I of Trebizond m. Eirene Syrikaina
Emperor Ioannes II of Trebizond m. Eudokia Palaiologina
Emperor Alexios II of Trebizond m. Djiadjak of Samatzhke
Emperor Basileios of Trebizond m. Eirene
Emperor Alexios III of Trebizond m. Theodora Kantakuzene
Emperor Manuel III of Trebizond m. unknown
Emperor Alexios IV of Trebizond m. Theodora Kantakuzene
Emperor Ioannes IV of Trebizond m. unknown Turkish lady
Theodora Komnena m. Uzun Hasan, Khan of the Aq-Qoyunliu
Halima Begum m. Sultan Haydar Safavi
Ismail I, Shah of Persia, founder of the Safavids.

As for his cousin Harry, that connection goes like this:

Emperor Alexios I Komnenos of Byzantium m. Eirene Dukaina
Theodora Komnena m. Konstantinos Angelos
Andronikos Angelos Doukas m. Euphrosyne Kastamonitissa
Emperor Isaakios II of Byzantium m. unknown
Eirene Angelina m. Philipp, Duke of Swabia
Marie of Swabia m. Heinrich II, Duke of Brabant
Maud of Brabant m. Robert I, Comte de Artois
Blanche de Artois m. Enrique I, King of Navarre
Queen Juana of Navarre m. King Philippe IV de France
Isabella de France m. King Edward II of England
King Edward III of England m. Philippa of Hainault
John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster m. Katherine Roet
John Beaufort, 1st Earl of Somerset m. Margaret Holand
John Beaufort, 2nd Earl of Somerset m. Margaret Beauchamp
Margaret Beaufort m. Edmund Tudor, Earl of Richmond
King Henry VII of England m. Elizabeth of York
King Henry VIII of England, he of the six wives.

There’s also a line from Shah Ismail down to the Moghul Emperors of India, who were also descended from Genghis Khan and Tamerlane (Timur-i-lang). There were lots of European connections to the early Ottoman Sultans as well, who often had Byzantine and Trapezunt princesses in their harems, along with Greek and Italian noblewomen.

.:Nichol:.

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ask the person who works in the porn industry. :eek:

No, really - I work for a company that manages adult bookstores all over the country, and I deal with the merchandise aspect. So maybe the better "ask the ___ " would be:

ask the person who deals with lots of adult toys.

:smiley:

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Ask the:

Adopted woman who has no desire to meet her birth mother.

Single mom who’s putting two sons through college.

Woman who moved in with her fiance after living with only her sons for the last 13 years.

Woman who makes her bed every morning or she just can’t think straight.

Forensics show addict.
.

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I’d love to hear the stories behind 1, 4, and 5! Please.

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  • Ask the guy with 30 tickets and 10 accidents.

and a couple I have thought about but hesitate to undertake:

  • Ask the dangerously Bi-polar guy.
  • Ask the self-mutilator.
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Oh goodie, I’ve got lots of questions! :wink:

*) There has to be all sorts of fringe benefits that go along with working in porn. At the very least you save a fortune in clothes. Can you give us some more?
*) Have you met lots of famous people? (Silly me – like you’d remember their FACE!)
*) “Lots of adult toys”. Is this like product testing? Do you test them all at once or one at a time? Who buys all the stinkin’ batteries???
*) What, exactly, is the “chicken position”?

SS

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Heh. I guess I better clarify my adult industy stuff.

I work in an office, from 8-5 Monday through Friday, maintaining a database chock full of adult toys and magazines that get sent to the stores the company I work for owns. No nudity around here.

Famous people? Lessee, the only one I remember meeting (in reference to the porn industry) is Nina Hartley, who was doing an in-store appearance signing autographs.

Nope, no actual product testing. I look at the item, and determine what exactly the item is - is it a hard vibe, a soft vibe, a pump, a doll…I assign each item a specific category/subcategory for the database.

Batteries are actually supplied free from each store when you purchase a battery-operated item. Of course, these are really cheap batteries, so you’ll want to pick up a set of duracells before really trying your new battery-operated pal out. The store provides the batteries to make certain the item works (open the package, insert batteries, turn item on.) We do this because we absolutley will not take any returns on merchandise. Ewwwwwwwwwww. :eek:

Haven’t got a clue on the chicken position, and I’m just not gonna Google it. :wink:

Oh, before I got my job in the main office, I worked in one of the stores for a little over a year…

So I guess another one might be ask the former porn store clerk/manager.

88

Ask the California farm kid*

Ask the daughter of a mining engineer

Ask the print freak
*sample question: How do you keep the sea lions from hauling out into the fields and mashing the artichoke plants down?

89

Feh, I almost did one of these a while back: “Ask the American-born cricketer.” I reckon there may only be a couple hundred of us around.

Other possibilities:

Ask the (now former) Oxford D.Phil student!
Ask the guy who got hit by a bus!
Ask the (former) 13-year-old college student!
Ask the university fundraising researcher!
Ask the hopelessly disorganized guy!

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Alright, I’ll bite, How do you keep sea lions from mashing down artichoke plants? sounds like a set up for a joke Does it involve a Rabbi, Priest and a duck?

91

*Ask the chick who knows way too much about werewolves
*Ask the Jhonen Vasquez fangirl(Oh, the posts runneth over…):rolleyes:
*Ask the budding photographer
*Ask the master (mistress?) of strange facial expressions:dubious::eek:
…yup.

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*Ask the chick who knows way too much about werewolves
*Ask the Jhonen Vasquez fangirl(Oh, the posts runneth over…):rolleyes:
*Ask the budding photographer
*Ask the master (mistress?) of strange facial expressions:dubious::eek:
…yup.

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•Ask The Atheist
•Ask The Political Moderate ('Hate liberals. 'Hate Conservatives.)
•Ask The Amateur Flight Sim Scenery Designer
•Ask The (Medication Controlled, :twitch-twitch:) Obsessive-Compulsive
•Ask The Grandson of a B-29 pilot
•Ask The Unusual and Arcane Information Collector
•Ask The Custom Action Figure Builder
•Ask The Holiday Season Cashier (:twitch-twitch:)
•Ask the Guy who was in a “Nut house” for 72 hours (:Twitch-twitch-twitch:)
•Ask The 'Shipper Sympathizer
•Ask The Megalomaniac with an Inferiority Complex
•Ask The Borderline Asexual
•Ask the Draconian Punishment Advocate

94

•Ask the guy who accidentally put smilies in his last post. :smack:

95

Ask the graveyard shift Tech Support Agent.

Uhhm . . . I think that’s it.

96

Ask the Tim Horton’s Worker

97

ask the…Rudeboy
ask the…UPSguy
ask the…lazyguy
ask the…grillmaster
ask the…frustated Boston Terrier owner
ask the…:stuck_out_tongue:

98

Separate sea lions and artichokes–an 80’ cliff will do it (Sorry, Shirley, no joke).

But I’d like to know some way to keep the #%&!*#!! deer out of the artichokes, and the peas, and the lettuce, and…

99

Wow, I actually want to ask a bunch of question of all of you. I guess that’s another thread.

[ul][li]Ask the Macintosh Geek for a large Ad Agency[/li][li]Ask the father of a soon-to-be-three year old[/li][li]Ask the bass player[/li][li]Ask the Copywriter for a fledgling ad agency[/li][li]Ask the sailor (of sailboats)[/li][li]Ask the camper[/li][li]Ask the person who isnot a Nurse[/li][li]Ask the person who is not a Carmen[/li][li]Ask the fraternal twin[/li][li]Ask the doctor’s son[/li][li]Ask the handyman around the house[/li][li]Ask the shade tree mechanic[/li][/ul]

what the hell is a Melungeon?

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[ul]Ask the umpire
Ask the card-counter
Ask the systems analyst
Ask the Californian
Ask the Tolkien Geek (one of many here…)
[/ul]