OMG I am related to bush!!!

[zeemike]

Pleas forgive me but I just had to get this off my chest. I feel that if I did not;t tell I wold be forever tainted by it.
I am related through his mother Barbra Pierce Bush and he is my 8th cosine
But my question to those of you that know such things is does the smell follow you as an eight cosine?
And is it still OK for me to post on DU?

If there are anyone else out there that would like to fess up to being related in such a manner now would be the time to fess up.

[WindRavenX]

1. well, technically, we're *all* related

It's just a matter of how closely you are related.

[CGowen]

3. It looks that way, Cheney and Obama are eighth cousins

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21340764/

WASHINGTON - Though they may spar across the political aisle, Vice President Dick Cheney is close enough to Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama to call him “cousin.”

Eighth cousin, that is.

Lynne Cheney, the vice president’s wife, revealed this tantalizing bit of political trivia during a television interview Tuesday.

...

A spokesman for Obama, who wants to be the first black U.S. president, offered a tongue-in-cheek response. “Every family has a black sheep,” said spokesman Bill Burton.

Lynne Cheney did not reference the ancestral ties between her husband and Obama in the book.

[CGowen]

2. Better than Kerry, he is only his ninth cousin. n/t

[Maine-ah]

4. that means you and I are related as well

hey cousin! :hi:

on edit, I should prolly explain how...

Franklin Pierce is one of my Husband's uncles, however many gen's back (I need my book to give you the exact, and the BB is sleeping in there right now)so, at least for me it's by marriage only. Barbara (Pierce) Bush is a neice to Franklin Pierce so she and my husband are cousins how ever many times removed. Shit, I think I have that right.

[zeemike]

6. Hey cosine

My common ancestor with Babara is Joseph Ketchel 1712-1769 so there is a lot of time separating us...that is good news... I would hate to think I had inherited her smirk.

[Catshrink]

8. Let me go out on a tangent here...

and say I'm not related to the little bastard. That is unless the one relative of my mom's turns out to be related, but that's doubtful.

[zeemike]

10. Wow

It must be great to know that your family tree is free of the taint of the BCF.

[Catshrink]

12. Genealogy can be comforting...

as least I can rule out such vermin.

[KamaAina]

5. I will be, too

soon as they find the Missing Link. :evilgrin:

[Shine]

7. Hey, don't sweat it. Truly, we're all ONE big family, afterall.

:grouphug: That's what I believe, anyway. :hi:

[zeemike]

9. Well my family tree is not all bad

I am first cousin 9 times removed from the poet John Milton. I guess that mitigates somewhat the negative.

[madeline_con]

11. You can't pick the circumstances of your birth.

You could have something done legally, I suppose, if it bothers you.

[DarkTirade]

13. I would feel much more comfortable about it

if it were an obtuse angle rather than a cosine.

[krispos42]

14. Perhaps an secant instead?

:-)

[DarkTirade]

15. Sorry, I guess I kind of went off on a tangent there. :)

[krispos42]

16. As long as it wasn't a hyperbolic tangent...

:rofl:

[zeemike]

18. It took a minute but i figured our your angle

Measure twice cut once they always say. I guess we should apply the same to posting.

[DarkTirade]

19. Yeah, I found out that rule applies to homebrewing too...

ruined a whole gallon of mead by getting the proportions wrong. :(

[zeemike]

20. I made my own beer and wine years ago

But I made it in 5 gallon batches so any mistake was a big one. But I always had one of those 5 gallon glass carboys bubbling away. It was a lot of fun making it and even more fun getting my buds to drink it.

[DarkTirade]

23. Mead for me.

Just little 1 gallon batches for now, but once I get my recipes settled in I'll switch to a 5 or 6 gallon carboy. Right now I'm going for seasonal recipes. I've still got no clue what I'm gonna do for spring, but I've got my fall and winter brewing right now, and I've got a rough idea for what I'm going to do for summer.

[zeemike]

25. i have never made mead

Can you jot down a quick recipe? I might just try a gallon or so fore fun

[DarkTirade]

26. Check out www.gotmead.com

they've got a whole bunch there. All of mine are original ones that I'm still tweaking. Hopefully these two will turn out right, and they won't need any more tweaking. :)

[zeemike]

27. Thanks and good luck n/t

[conscious evolution]

17. IBTS!!!

[raccoon]

21. This quote seems appropriate: “people can have many cousins and of all sorts,

Miss Cathy, without being any the worse for it; only they needn't keep their company, if they be disagreeable and bad.'

From WUTHERING HEIGHTS, Chapter XVIII


http://www.pagebypagebooks.com/Emily_Bronte/Wuthering_Heights/Chapter_XVIII_p5.html

[spinbaby]

22. I share a name with an obnoxious congresscritter

Does that count?

[Colorado Progressive]

24. I bet a lot of people on here are distant cousins of Bush, and each other nt

[devilgrrl]

28. Too bad you're not related to Kate Bush... that would have been kinda cool.

:-(

[Iris]

29. Wasn't there a group of his relatives fighting for his defeat last election?

I think they had a website?

[texas1928]

30. I am related to the Bush family too.

My mother found it in her research.

[SacredCow]

31. Hypothetical question......

If the secret service came to your door and said that Shrub needed a kidney to live, and you were a match.... What would happen?

:hide:

[zeemike]

32. Well they probably would not ask

And I would wake up at Guantanamo with stitches in my side.

[SacredCow]

33. More likely....

In a bathtub full of ice with binder clips on your side....