AdamSmith Posted September 15, 2013 Share Posted September 15, 2013 So I feel like making a characteristic post but have been up so long doing characteristic things that I will essay this lazy man's effort. Attentive readers will hold the blackmail keys in their hands: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Carteret,_2nd_Earl_Granville Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members RA1 Posted September 15, 2013 Members Share Posted September 15, 2013 Somehow the significance of this escaped me. Perhaps I am living right? However, I was intrigued by the listing of the Earl of Wilmingtom which turned out to be a typo. So much of life turns out to be a typo. Best regards, RA1 AdamSmith 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members lookin Posted September 15, 2013 Members Share Posted September 15, 2013 Late one evening, while out on a lark, I sashayed 'round a path through the Park. There, attached to a tush Bobbing out of a bush, Was the 7th Seigneur of Sark! AdamSmith 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members RA1 Posted September 15, 2013 Members Share Posted September 15, 2013 Are you saying the Earl of Granville was a poof? Just curious. Best regards, RA1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest hitoallusa Posted September 15, 2013 Share Posted September 15, 2013 I love when Lookin speaks in this way.. Starts at 3:10... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TS7hsA_FIk4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members lookin Posted September 15, 2013 Members Share Posted September 15, 2013 Are you saying the Earl of Granville was a poof? No firsthand experience here, as he was several forms behind me. But, when AdamSmith lays a trail, I follow. AdamSmith 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members RA1 Posted September 15, 2013 Members Share Posted September 15, 2013 I have often offered the idea that leaving bread crumbs so that we could find our way back would be excellent. However, at most if not all times in the past, I have found that birds or squirrels or other animals seem to obliterate the trail I intended to leave behind. In the days before GPS this was serious indeed. Today, a good driver in the courtesy van can cure a multitude of navigation problems. Best regards, RA1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AdamSmith Posted September 16, 2013 Author Share Posted September 16, 2013 Whoops, one or two or three things intervened to distract from finishing this line of thought. I had completely forgotten the Sark appelation. Lord Carteret was the one more used in Caroline. Most grateful. The relevance of my original post (vain notion!) is only that he was the grantor to my forebears of their little tobacco-bearing (much later marijuana, but that is a different tale, involving the eventual drowning of the nervous potentially tattling wife in the property's pond, but those light bagatelles can wait for a fuller recounting here) patch of the Granville District. lookin 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members RA1 Posted September 17, 2013 Members Share Posted September 17, 2013 And all this time I thought you were related to the Dukes of Hazard or maybe the Duke of Earl. Amazing how much Americans seek out royalty after the years of effort to divorce ourselves from same and a slight conflict called the American Revolution. Best regards, RA1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
