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Benton D Struckcheon

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81. What the star dust guy said.

Tue May 13, 2014, 04:30 PM

May 2014

Also, somewhere in my travels I ran into an article about that thingie that's supposed to be able to trace your ancestry back 1000 years or something. In that article it said that very mixed peoples, like Bermudans and, ahem, Puerto Ricans (I'm one*) can't really use it.
Ah well. I'm a member of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and this month's members magazine is devoted to Goya. Somewhere in there it says some guy got "exiled to Puerto Rico" for procuring women for a member of the royal family. Wotta punishment!
Buncha lowlifes we are. Dominoes, rum, hard queso de bola, and salsa playing in the background is all we need...

*I have an oddball last name that traces back to an ancestor that came from Corsica. My niece visited there once and liked it a lot. Seems they passed some law that you have to be a resident for five years before you can buy real estate. She offered to "take one for the team". May her generosity never lead her to poverty...

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