Anything under the sun!

[laranger]

Sometimes, those will keep ya on your toes, no time for worrying then.

[j.d.eeViant]

I have survived and returned!

[CK1]

Good to have you back. Any good stories of your trip?

[tigger]

I just got some sad news . one of Sarahs friends Heather her dad lost his job monday. and last night he hung him self out in the shed behind there house. I dont care how bad things get they are never that bad.

[CK1]

Wow, my heart goes out to that family. loosing a love one is never easy but under those circumstances... its just tragic. be there for them because they will need it.

[tigger]

This is a piture of sarah and heather is on the right. She is the one who lost her father this morning. She also has a little brother too i think he is 7. Kids dont deserve this. Killing your self solves nothing. It only hurts the ones left behind.

[captnjack]

That is really tragic and must have been traumatic for the family.

[j.d.eeViant]

Originally Posted by CK1

Good to have you back. Any good stories of your trip?

Yeah sorry for the delayed reply but there was more important stuff going on in the topic and I didn't want to interrupt. Overall it was a fun trip and I got to meet a lot of girl i like, and even worked with Sophie Dee in her booth for a while. I've been talking with her online for the past 2 1/2 years so it was nice to finally meet her in person and she was just as nice in person.

[YetAnotherDave]

Hey geo, seeing you do your bit on my Mayor, Boris, we have a TV programme in the UK on BBC which does Family Trees etc "Who Do You Think You Are?". Boris was on it a series or so ago and remember seeing it with info you described

This is one link http://www.bbc.co.uk/whodoyouthinkyo...-johnson.shtml and a YouTube Video here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dozUkeDXXgw

[tigger]

Sarah wanted a pond and i was kinda ok with that. the problem all the fallen trees and stumps.

[tigger]

tractor battery was dead!!!!!!!

[geolarson2]

Originally Posted by YetAnotherDave

Hey geo, seeing you do your bit on my Mayor, Boris, we have a TV programme in the UK on BBC which does Family Trees etc "Who Do You Think You Are?". Boris was on it a series or so ago and remember seeing it with info you described

This is one link http://www.bbc.co.uk/whodoyouthinkyo...-johnson.shtml and a YouTube Video here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dozUkeDXXgw

Fascinating! Thank you most kindly, Dave. I know that there's a couple genealogy programs (or programmes if you prefer) on the BBC or ITV (I get BBC America, but they don't show those programs--I'm happy with Dr. Who & Torchwood), and I know Lisa Kudrow was trying to get one of them imported for the US, like we stole, I mean borrowed, any number of your shows to Americanize them. More often than not, I find when I wind up talking genes with my fellow countrymen & women that they're surprised to find that there are a number of well-known British names who have American connections (i.e., The Queen Mum, Princess Diana, Winston Churchill), but does it surprise you at all to find that your Lord Mayor had American ancestors? Or that Rachel Ward and Adam Hart-Davis also have American connections? In Lady Ward's case, she's a great-great-great-great-great granddaughter of Sen. William Bingham; in Adam's case, his maternal grandmother was a Borden from New England (that would be the same family as Borden Condensed Milk and Lizzie--Adam's grandma was also a great-aunt of Adlai Stevenson III).

[tigger]

We just finnished with dinner and Sarah was trying to dish out some icecream and it was frozen solid. so she asked me if i could get some out so i grabed the scoop and dug in and a big piece flew out brazed sarahs hair hit grandma in the arm and landed in pouncers dish! we all had a little chuckel out of it and grandpa said now that the cat has his how about the rest of us. grandma took it from me and put it in the microwave for 30 sec and sarah was able to dish us out some and pouncer enjoyed his too!

[geolarson2]

Way back in my undergrad days, after I'd switched from psych to anthro to history, I found myself in a class on Medieval Britain. While there, I found myself analyzing the motives of the nobles & Crown, and that led me to look at familial ties. Anyway, long story short the whole thing became a nice little hobby of mine that branched out to the rest of Europe and into America. So this morning I'm just scrolling through my index and looking at the various names and such, and it dawned on me--Barack Hussein Obama and Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson, President of the United States and Mayor of London respectively, have some interesting parallels in their families. Both have Muslim ancestors, while neither is a Muslim (Obama's grandfather converted to Islam from I think it was the Catholic Church, and Johnson's grandfather converted from Islam to the Anglican Church if I have it right--Obama, of course, was raised by his mother and maternal grandparents who were Methodists). Both are of mixed-race--Obama's father was Kenyan, Johnson's great-grandfather was a Turk (his son, Boris's grandfather, changed the family name from Kemal to Johnson). Both also have their ties to slavery. Obama's mother's family once owned slaves, while Boris's great-great-grandmother was a slave, the difference is that Obama's family's slaves were of African origin, while Johnson's great-great-grandma was Caucasian (and here I don't mean she was white, although she was, I mean that she apparently came from the Caucasus). And while obviously on his mother's side Barack has American ancestry, including a few ancestors from New England, Johnson does, too--his maternal great-grandmother was born Helen Tracy Porter in Towanda PA, while her family came to PA from Connecticut & Massachusetts. It just struck me this morning that here you have two prominent politicians with some interesting titbits of trivia in their family trees. Oh, and by the way, they're distantly related to each other--both are at the very least descended from Edward I of England (Obama through his immigrant ancestors, Edward FitzRandolph of MA & Eltonhead Conway Thacker of VA; Johnson through Auguste Guelph, sister of King George III, who married King Friedrich I of Wuerttemburg).

[captnjack]

Geo your are a fountain of knowledge...where do you find this stuff?

[tigger]

Sarah called me today. she spent most of the day down at Heathers house helping out with cleaning and cooking along with a few other friends. the funeral is tomarow i wont be able to make it home. Sarah told me that they are having problems with there car they have to unhook the battery at night or it will be dead in the morning. there must be a short somewere. i told her I would look at it when i get home tue. Heathers aunt is staying for a cupple weeks so her mom will have someone there. I told her if they need a car right now to let them use mine. Its not much a 86 camery 3 diffrent colors. i bought it wrecked and using junk yard parts put it back together. dosent look like much but it runs good and gets great gas milage. it makes an exilent run around car. my truck only gets about 12 mpg. Gess Heathers little brother is taking it varry hard, he is only 7yrs. her mom wanted the shed where he killed him self gone so i called down to the fire hall and a cupple of the guys went down and tore it down and hauled off all the crap today. Her mom wants to talk to me when i get home , Heather thinks she wants me to take all the stuff of her husbands out of the garage. but she isnot shure, but i will go over and see her when i get home. the team all pitched in and came up with $250 for me to give her. so that was nice of them.

[tigger]

Boy did I make a little screw up today!!!!!!!!! We stoped at a rest stop and I had to go varry varry bad. I jumped from the truck ran yes ran into the bathroom just made it on the pot. im sitting there doing my buisnes an i hear girls talking , then it hit me i had run into the ladys room! I sat there till all was quiet thought i had gotten away with it when i came out the door the two girls that were in there were right there!!!! I just said afternoon ladys and quickly got out to my truck.

[T-bone Thomas]

Originally Posted by tigger

Boy did I make a little screw up today!!!!!!!!! We stoped at a rest stop and I had to go varry varry bad. I jumped from the truck ran yes ran into the bathroom just made it on the pot. im sitting there doing my buisnes an i hear girls talking , then it hit me i had run into the ladys room! I sat there till all was quiet thought i had gotten away with it when i came out the door the two girls that were in there were right there!!!! I just said afternoon ladys and quickly got out to my truck.

LOL. I can see the situation in my mind right in front of me. So funny! Thanks for sharing with us, Tigger. You made me laugh and saved a boring Sunday.

[geolarson2]

Originally Posted by tigger

Boy did I make a little screw up today!!!!!!!!! We stoped at a rest stop and I had to go varry varry bad. I jumped from the truck ran yes ran into the bathroom just made it on the pot. im sitting there doing my buisnes an i hear girls talking , then it hit me i had run into the ladys room! I sat there till all was quiet thought i had gotten away with it when i came out the door the two girls that were in there were right there!!!! I just said afternoon ladys and quickly got out to my truck.

You know, I very nearly went to a university that had coed baths (Go Banana Slugs!!!!). If only I'd paid more attention to funding, what fun might have been ...

[geolarson2]

Originally Posted by captnjack

Geo your are a fountain of knowledge...where do you find this stuff?

What started off with little hand-drawn charts of English nobles & kings has turned into a 200,000+ person database that I can only keep sorted out using a computer. For me part of the fun was learning a little about someone's background when I decided to add them in, coupled with the research & digging through musty, dusty old books and scanning microfiche & microfilm (when I started, I didn't have a PC--I got one 5 years later, when a top-of-the-line PC was the Pentium 133), and then there's the jigsaw effect. Imagine putting together a jigsaw puzzle that's all face-down, you don't know how many pieces it has, exactly, and trying to sort it out by learning what clues each piece has and then filling them in. (I actually used to do that stuff when I was a kid with MC Escher puzzles.) But to be honest my knowledge is pretty scatter-shot anymore. I'm not 100% sure what got me thinking about Boris Johnson & Barack Obama--might have been listening to the radio where Mick Fleetwood was being interviewed, which reminded me of John Entwistle (they sound similar in conversation, and kinda look similar, at least their noses), which reminded me of Boris the Spider which I guess is what made me think of Boris Johnson. And then a little later I had cable news on and naturally they were talking about the Obama administration and so maybe somewhere in the deep, dark recesses of my mind (places no one should go without taking precautions), up popped the whole slavery thing. That, I think, has been rolling around in the back of my mind for a couple months now because it appears that relatives of mine were involved in the American slave trade--and I have no southern ancestry. Back the beginning of the year, I read an article about Rhode Island's slave trade which continued right up 1842 (I did have to look that up). Anyway, a lot of what I come up with actually comes from what I dug up back a decade and more ago which a trusty PC and a couple nice programs keep track of for me now. I can honestly say, though, that I don't think I'd do so well standing behind a lectern teaching nowadays--the bits & pieces are there in my noggin, they just aren't so well organized today.

Truth is, I'm an information junkie, and I love problem & puzzle solving. One upon a time I thought it would be great to be an intelligence analyst, more in the Robert Redford/Three Days of the Condor vein than the Tom Clancy/Jack Ryan (or Jack Bauer) line. To that end, I liked surveying some of the bigger blogs (i.e., Kos, Red State, Talking Points), watched the various editorial programs on cable news (i.e., O'Reilly, Olbermann) and so on. Back in college, I used to watch C-Span & C-Span2 a lot, especially the foreign broadcasts (i.e., Prime Minister's Questions during Maggie Thatcher's, John Major's and Tony Blair's governments, BBC World, CBC with Peter Mansbridge), surveyed various papers (WSJ, NY Times, Wash Post--my favourite), listen to NPR regularly (I'm actually tired of the opinion programs, from Rush to Air America). Anyway that's what drives me, for what its worth. Oh, just a "fun fact" sort of, but I actually have a distant cousin who happens to be married to someone with almost exactly the same surname as Rob--just with an "i" instead of a "y". Weird, huh?

[captnjack]

Originally Posted by geolarson2

...Truth is, I'm an information junkie, and I love problem & puzzle solving. One upon a time I thought it would be great to be an intelligence analyst, more in the Robert Redford/Three Days of the Condor vein than the Tom Clancy/Jack Ryan (or Jack Bauer) line...

Geo that is amazing and I can imagine you as the Robert Robert character / 3 Days of the Condor. I hope that is a compliement it was meant to be anyway.

[geolarson2]

Originally Posted by captnjack

Geo that is amazing and I can imagine you as the Robert Robert character / 3 Days of the Condor. I hope that is a compliment it was meant to be anyway.

It is! BTW, did you know Redford, on his mother's side, is a great-great-great grandson of Rep. Robert M. Bugg (Whig-TN)? His ex-wife is related to Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) and Watergate special prosecutor Solicitor Gen. Archibald Cox? Small world. Back to 3 Days, Max von Sydow was born in the same city my great-grandpa was born, and was also a cousin of Swedish Prime Minister Knut Hammarskjold and his son, UN Secretary General Dag.

[Texasdrake]

Was bored so I was looked online to see what I could find as for local escorts and came across an ad where they were using AlisonAngel's FTV pictiures.
"http://fortworth.fwweekly.com/FemaleEscorts/upscale-_-blonde-_-doll-21/14741170"

Link modified by Moderator (W)

[mart]

Originally Posted by Texasdrake

Was bored so I was looked online to see what I could find as for local escorts and came across an ad where they were using AlisonAngel's FTV pictiures.
"http://fortworth.fwweekly.com/FemaleEscorts/upscale-_-blonde-_-doll-21/14741170"

Link modified by Moderator (W)

Is Alison available there Texas?, if not hope Rob gets it removed.

[Texasdrake]

Originally Posted by mart

Is Alison available there Texas?, if not hope Rob gets it removed.

We all know its not her..if it was Alison believe me I would hock everything I own to have a whole night with her.
I was tempted to E-mail Monica who was using Alison's pictures and tell her that she needed to find other pics cause those were of someone I knew and she's not her.

[mart]

Originally Posted by Texasdrake

We all know its not her..if it was Alison believe me I would hock everything I own to have a whole night with her.
I was tempted to E-mail Monica who was using Alison's pictures and tell her that she needed to find other pics cause those were of someone I knew and she's not her.

Me too Texas,
Email this Monica Texas and tell her to get a life.

[Index-of-Beauty Ben]

Yeah, Alison's out of the game and was never an escort. She's probably never coming back to the adult realm I don't suppose. :sigh: oh how I miss her as does everyone else around here, too.

[Tom M]

Absolutely. I was late coming to her material and never did get to join the site - well not yet anyway - but there's something wonderful about her. Not everyone get's it but i sure do Wish I'd been there at the start. Are we allowed to talk about her or is it a no-go area?

[TheDoctor]

This forum has been a freaking ghost since the FTV section was shut down...

[jimjimjim]

Hi all...

i need some help, i read an entry on a blog some years ago posted by Violet where she described scenes she had done over the years, including a girl girl scene (not on FTV, sorry if it is against the rules to discuss this).

At the time i managed to find the scene, however it is now lost. Does anyone else know about this scene, and could you point me in the right direction?? If you know which company shot the scene and what name she went under thats pretty much whats needed.

Thanks in advance!!

Jim

[TheDoctor]

Lord WhyYou passed away on the morning of tuesday, june 11th.

Those of us who got to enjoy his curmudgeonly wisdom, please keep a minute of silence in his honor.

Happy Father's Day, Uncle.

TD

[tigger]

I had the pleasure of meeting WhyYou. ( William ) several times He was a great guy he will be missed!

[T-bone Thomas]

Oh no, that's bad news. I will miss WhyYou. Rest in peace my friend

[danielle_ftv]

My condolences go out to WhyYou's family and friends. We are going to miss him.

[robotchicken]

Spent most of the night with FTV Girls / Danielle. That's a good Valentines in my opinion.

Listening to a beautiful, if melancholic, song. Elliott Smith's "Between The Bars".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37k_Ri1XxEc

[TheDoctor]

Knock knock...

Yo, where has everyone gone?

[Anoree]

Originally Posted by TheDoctor

Knock knock...

Yo, where has everyone gone?

I'm still here.
Actually, I'm back from a business trip for a couple of days.

[Index-of-Beauty Ben]

Originally Posted by Anoree

I'm still here.
Actually, I'm back from a business trip for a couple of days.

Glad to see people are still alive. I guess Danielle does alot more over cam now and has her own life to attend to, as well. I haven't seen or heard anything in awhile.