>>>>>... > >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}
You sound like a relative of mine ( a Godwyn from Malmesbury ) who refers to the Queen as "The German woman with the dogs" <bg>
Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened. - Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote. - Ben Franklin
Pardon him, Theodotus. He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
