Theos-Talk Archives (May 1996 Message tl00964)

Alex,
The weird relationships of Italian lesser nobility confuse me no end.  I was
told all these funny stories by my father's older brother, Uncle Pascal, when
I was a kid and never took any of them seriously and all of a sudden in grad
school I learned why I have all these middle names.  Of course they had to
mix the Anglo-Dutch-Austrian-German part with the Italian, which is were Will
and Michael come from (Will being the maternal grandparents' surname) and the
fact that our branch of the family is protestant made some of the rest very
unhappy (I grew up with the Thirty Years War still raging around me) so we
just never made anything of it.
I have about five coats of arms laying around this house somewhere, two of
them from mother's side, at least one granted by the Massachusetts Colony and
the rest from father's.
Actually, that post was the second time I've used the title in my life, the
first one was to spice up a talk I gave last fall on vampires, though I knew
I was likely to be the heir to it when I was going out with Patricia Rokke
and had to bite my cheek a lot to avoid using it to impress her.  Now she is
a story!
To my knowledge, none of my family has ever fucked a sheep, unless it was
disguised as a peasant who got in the way of the army.  Now the Bonapartes,
being only Sardinian, a savage people whose only skill before Napoleon was in
being able to swim in neat rows into those little cans...  Well, that's what
Uncle Pat said!

Chuck the Atrocious MTI, FTSA
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