>>>>>>I think we STARTED the gene pool, didn't we? For instance Beane doesn't sound particularly Chinese in origin. It's all these Holtzers, Granors, Nedeljkovichs, Johengens, Nosonovskys, Ahns and Feldsteins, et al that are diluting the once pure English stock! {gdr}
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>>>>>Says McDonnell, of pure English stock.
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>>>>I haven't got a drop of English blood in me. I'm 3/4 Irish (McDonnell and Dunn), 1/4 Scottish-Shetland-Orkneys (Matherson & Merwick), 1/8 Norwegian (again, Matherson via Shetland), with a smidgen of Welsh.
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>>>That was my point. Sam summarized it in one word beautifully, methinks.
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>>But I wasn't a member of the gene pool that pulled out of the 13 colonies, so I don't matter. Though one branch of my family had some smarts, and started the McDonnell-Douglas co. :-)
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>Really?
>So your family is partly responsible for the "evil" military-industrial complex that some people here have been crying about?

Not MY branch. At least they never send us monthly cheque!