[color=#000000:post_uid0]Couldn't help but notice the festive air o' the Emerald Isle o'er the site banner. 'Tis lovely t' see the best holiday o' the year bein' celebrated properly by at least one of me regular sites! *hic*[/color:post_uid0]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Hehe. With a boyfriend from Ireland, you find it hard to not forget their favorite holiday. ;)[/color:post_uid0]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Ummm...I'm mostly Irish, but for some odd reason, I can't seem to see the new decortion. Maybe because my computer is crap. :( , but idunno...I'll try it in some other scenarios, but...could you tell me what it looks like?[/color:post_uid0]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Try reloading the page if you just have the regular banner. You might just be getting a cached version stored on your own harddrive.




~Nan[/color:post_uid0]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Well, I'm 1/4 Irish, 1/4 English, and 1/2 Scottish...so technically I should be in a bar, beating myself up, then having a round of tea and crumpets.

Ah...saint paddy's day...[/color:post_uid0]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Irish name, traces of Scottish, all diluted in a sea of Sassenach. Dad's family (Maguire) are (were) Irish nobility (many, many, many moons ago), and Mum's descended from English nobility (see previous qualifier). One half of me should be trying to exterminate the other.

I didn't wear green today. Patrick and I don't see eye to eye (mostly 'cause he's been dead for ~1500 years).[/color:post_uid0]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]I'm part Irish. Not a lot, but then, I'm not a lot of anything other than Canadian. I'd planned to have the links light up green for St. Patrick's Day instead of blue, but forgot about it until it was too late, so I just reused last year's March 17 decoration.[/color:post_uid0]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]I've no Irish in me what so ever, but I guess everyone's a little Irish on St. Patties Day :)

I made some Irish Soda Bread for the occasion, winning a bet with a friend that you could make a non-dessert bread without yeast.[/color:post_uid0]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]A lot of my fathers family are Irish, so I guess that makes me part Irish. What I really wish I had in me was more Scottish, but I don't really despite the fact the better part of my life has been spent there so far.[/color:post_uid0]

[quote:post_uid0="Zeke"][color=#000000:post_uid0]...but then, I'm not a lot of anything other than Canadian.[/color:post_uid0][/quote:post_uid0]
[color=#000000:post_uid0]Ah, that nebulous state of being that is a multigenerational Canadian.

"Er, Irish... English... maybe some Russian, I don't really remember... I think I had Spanish uncle..."

Heheh. :)


Nan[/color:post_uid0]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Try being an American. I'm German(15%), Irish(35%), Italian(12.5%), Romainian(12.5%), Russian(12.5%), and English(12.5%).[/color:post_uid0]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]I know I have French in me, and English and German (shocker, with a last name like "Saxon"). No Irish, that I know of.

I wore green on Monday, mainly so that I could bug Derek about not wearing it.[/color:post_uid0]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]^ Ahem. Your last name is Dean.

I have no idea what my ancestry is. Since I was born in America, that should make me a native American.[/color:post_uid0]

[color=#000000:post_uid0][quote:post_uid0]Ahem. Your last name is Dean.[/quote:post_uid0]

Believe it or not, I'm aware of that. ;) Sometimes I forget, but not that time. Writing "shocker, being born with a last name like Saxon" just seemed too long, so I decided the "being born" part could be understood.

Of course, my decision not to do it that way has resulted in extra posts, which are even longer. Perhaps I should have thought ahead.

In any case, "Dean" has nothing to do with my roots. So :p.[/color:post_uid0]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]All this talk about what our backrounds are reminds me of a song called "You Fill Out Your Census" or something similar by the Capitol Steps. Went something like this...

[quote:post_uid0][i:post_uid0]You Fill out you Census
With a number two pencil
First fill in your last name
and then your address
But soon they start askin'
Are 'ya native Alaskan
And soon his small task is
Becoming a Mess
My mom's half Hawaiian
Her dad's two-thirds Mayan
My uncle's half-brother
Startin' boys in the Hauge
His aunt's anglo-saxan
Just like Michael (sp?) Jackson
What to do I am askin
If you're Tiger Woods![/i:post_uid0][/quote:post_uid0]

But no matter how we origionated, we are all American. Or Canadian Or...from Earth. Whatever.[/color:post_uid0]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Michael. lol ;)[/color:post_uid0]

[quote:post_uid0="Captain Galactic"][color=#000000:post_uid0]Try being an American. I'm German(15%), Irish(35%), Italian(12.5%), Romainian(12.5%), Russian(12.5%), and English(12.5%).[/color:post_uid0][/quote:post_uid0]
[color=#000000:post_uid0]Wow. A Gypsy in the mix. Cool. :)

I'm French (25%), Moroccan Arabic (25%), Polish/Mixed Slavic (50%). But I don't know anyone in my maternal grandfather's family. I can't speak Polish, either, although I know a few words:

tak = yes
nie = no
wodka = vodka
Polska = Poland

TA DA! ;) *ahem* HARDEST LANGUAGE from Europe. DEAR GOD.

Actually, we're having a similar discussion at DC. I think Babs has the coolest background so far: Blackfoot, Chinese, Black Irish. Although Kitty's Chinese-Samoan is cool too. :)

~Nan, nerding right up[/color:post_uid0]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]I'm sober again, but I'm listening to Duran Duran, so you should use your own discretion. The reflex, da da da da dum...[/color:post_uid0]

[color=#000000:post_uid0][quote:post_uid0]Wow. A Gypsy in the mix. Cool. [/quote:post_uid0]

Please, please, [i:post_uid0]please[/i:post_uid0] don't call me a gypsie. Every time I hear that word, I think of that creepy guy from [i:post_uid0]Choclat[/i:post_uid0]. Please don't make me think of that awful movie... At least [i:post_uid0]I[/i:post_uid0] hated it. :swear:[/color:post_uid0]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Okay, a Rom/Roma/Roman/Romany in the mix then. ;)





Nan[/color:post_uid0]

[color=#000000:post_uid0][quote:post_uid0]Rom/Roma/Roman/Romany [/quote:post_uid0]

He's Latin and Ferengi as well?[/color:post_uid0]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Rom - ROHM
Roma - ROHMA
Roman - roh-MAAN
Romany - ro-MAH-nee

It comes from a Sanskritic word. From Merriam-webster.com:

Etymology: Romany, married man, husband, male Gypsy, from Sanskrit [i:post_uid0]domba, doma[/i:post_uid0] low caste male musician

No Roman as "someone from Rome." :P

~Nan[/color:post_uid0]

[color=#000000:post_uid0][quote:post_uid0]Etymology: Romany, married man, husband, male Gypsy, from Sanskrit domba, doma low caste male musician
[/quote:post_uid0]

I know *that*, I just don't know why it took you three tries to spell the whole word :P[/color:post_uid0]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]So CAESAR and ROMAiNe salad aren't related to each other?[/color:post_uid0]

[quote:post_uid0="Captain Galactic"][color=#000000:post_uid0]Please, please, [i:post_uid0]please[/i:post_uid0] don't call me a gypsie. Every time I hear that word, I think of that creepy guy from [i:post_uid0]Choclat[/i:post_uid0]. Please don't make me think of that awful movie... At least [i:post_uid0]I[/i:post_uid0] hated it. :swear:[/color:post_uid0][/quote:post_uid0]
[color=#000000:post_uid0]Aww, I [i:post_uid0]loved[/i:post_uid0] [i:post_uid0]Chocolat.[/i:post_uid0]

And Johnny Depp plays a mean jazz guitar.[/color:post_uid0]

[quote:post_uid0="Sa'ar Chasm"][color=#000000:post_uid0]I know *that*, I just don't know why it took you three tries to spell the whole word :P[/color:post_uid0][/quote:post_uid0]
[color=#000000:post_uid0]No. "Rom," "Roma," "Roman" and "Romany" are all names the Romanian gypsies have used to refer to themselves. :P





Nan[/color:post_uid0]

[color=#000000:post_uid0][quoteNo. "Rom," "Roma," "Roman" and "Romany" are all names the Romanian gypsies have used to refer to themselves. :P[/quote:post_uid0]

Ahh, but "Romania" is derived from "Roman."

I have no idea what that proves.[/color:post_uid0]

[color=#000000:post_uid0][quote:post_uid0]Ahh, but "Romania" is derived from "Roman."

I have no idea what that proves.[/quote:post_uid0]

It proves that "Romania" is derived from "Roman". The moron next to me wants to put a smiley or two in, so here goes... :lol: :( :O :p :)

<span id='ME'><center>Guest is bored at school...and my teacher is a :swear: </center></span>[/color:post_uid0]

[quote:post_uid0="Sa'ar Chasm"][color=#000000:post_uid0]Ahh, but "Romania" is derived from "Roman."

I have no idea what that proves.[/color:post_uid0][/quote:post_uid0]
[color=#000000:post_uid0]I would think, like "Germania," "Slovenia," "Britannia," and "Yugoslavia," the "ia" comes from a traditional feminization of land titles in accordance to the traditional indentification of the earth as being female, i.e. motherland. Like Gea.

Just a thought. ;P



Nan[/color:post_uid0]