I'm kin to Charles "Tex" Watson

[Unknown User]

Posted: 7/15/05 at 7:29pm

Isn't that strange? Are any of you kin to any infamous people?

[papalovesmambo]

Posted: 7/15/05 at 7:31pm

just dad, ol' scratch.

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 7/15/05 at 7:32pm

mambo wins. No one else should even try.

Updated On: 7/15/05 at 07:32 PM

[Unknown User]

Posted: 7/15/05 at 8:20pm

On my Mother's side I'm related to Hetty Greene, the Witch of Wall Street, in the Guinness book as the cheapest person ever. She was the wealthiest woman in the world, but amputated her son's leg at home on the kitche table because a doctor wanted too much. She was a noted Wall Street financier, but refused to rent office space, working on the floor of the bank where she kept her money. She ate nothing but gruel, only heating it when she could do it for free over a lamp in her bank for her lunch. She rarely bathed and had only one dress. She apparently smelled horribly but was so wealthy and powerful that people wouldnt' complain.

And no, I didn't inherit a dime. She gave most of her fortune to various "Causes" and what was left to her son was spent in a matter of years, as he rebelled by living in absolute luxury.

She died of a "fit" brought on by a vicious argument over the nutritional value of skim milk.

[Glebb]

Posted: 7/15/05 at 8:28pm

I was married to Jessica Carol of Carolton who was my second cousin once removed and a kin to the Wilkes'.

[Unknown User]

Posted: 7/15/05 at 8:31pm

You were once married to your cousin?

[Glebb]

Posted: 7/15/05 at 8:32pm

Sorry, no. I always wanted to say that line from GWTW.

[Unknown User]

Posted: 7/15/05 at 8:35pm

Was this before or after the war, Glebb?

[Dollypop]

Posted: 7/15/05 at 9:04pm

My second cousin (by marriage) is Joe Cioffi, the meteorologist on WB11 (Channel 11) in New York. He's got an ego the size of the Grand Canyon.

[Glebb]

Posted: 7/15/05 at 10:16pm

Shall kith not kill their kin for me?

[Dollypop]

Posted: 7/16/05 at 12:18am

Joe Cioffi is not a kith I would kill for. However Tex obviously did his share of killing for Capt Obvious' family!

[brdlwyr]

Posted: 7/16/05 at 12:23am

To change the subject,

My cousin married a man and had a baby. She then divorced the man and married his son and had a baby, so the babies are brothers and the one is an uncle and the other a nephew.

[etoile]

Posted: 7/16/05 at 2:54am

Forget it, Jake. It's Chinatown.

[Marquise]

Posted: 7/16/05 at 3:16am

This thread just made my stomach turn...

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 7/16/05 at 12:33pm

Are any of you kin to any infamous people?

Who talks this way?

Lemme set down on the porch railing and do some thinkin about my kinfolk. Don't mind Grannie over there with her corn cob pipe, she's harmless, her bark's a bigger n her bite.

[SueleenGay]

Posted: 7/16/05 at 1:09pm

"I'm kin to Charles "Tex" Watson"

I didn't realize that sociopathic behavior was genetic.

[TheatreDiva90016]

Posted: 7/16/05 at 1:47pm

My grandfathers brother was Fulgencio Batista, the Dictator of Cuba before Castro.

We don't talk about him much

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 7/16/05 at 2:01pm

Holy crap. Sorry, papa, your crown has been stolen away by one more worthy. Wear it in good health, TD.

[TheatreDiva90016]

Posted: 7/16/05 at 2:03pm

Not something to be proud of, that's for sure.

It's not like Hitler's relatives bragged either.

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 7/16/05 at 2:04pm

We hope not, at least.

[TheatreDiva90016]

Posted: 7/16/05 at 2:06pm

You never hear from his Mother....

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 7/16/05 at 2:07pm

Not for a long time, anyway.

[DayDreamer]

Posted: 7/16/05 at 2:37pm

My grandfather's sister (Blanca) was married to Augusto Sandino, the Nicaraguan revolutionary. They hid at my grandparent's house when they were being chased by the army.

TD - isn't Gloria Estefan related to him too? Are you related to her then?

[TheatreDiva90016]

Posted: 7/16/05 at 2:41pm

Good Lordy, I have no clue...

[DayDreamer]

Posted: 7/16/05 at 2:46pm

My bad... she's not. (should've checked first)