OH DEAR GOD ROBERT PATTINSON IS RELATED TO DRACULA

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Element 117

AHAHAHAHAHA

Twilight is like the harry potter than the rest of us hate, right?
 
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Hmm. Thought his line died out within a century or so after his death. Interestingly, the Blood Countess was descended from one of Vlad's cousins, Stephen Bathory.

Then again, technically, except for Woodrow Wilson, World War I was feud amongst cousins.
 
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Null said:
Hmm. Thought his line died out within a century or so after his death. Interestingly, the Blood Countess was descended from one of Vlad's cousins, Stephen Bathory.

Then again, technically, except for Woodrow Wilson, World War I was feud amongst cousins.
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Well.... it depends on how you look at it.

Some culture the bloodline is only "valid" via the male heir, but some would just go with actual descendant (male or female) which I like to follow that more than just the whole "male only" line (which I think it is stupid IMP)
 
sixpackshaker

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No. 1479: Great-Grandchildren

A while back a friend got deeply into genealogy. One day he pulled out some papers that showed he was related to Charlemagne. I allowed that was very impressive. Now I've just read an article in the magazine The Sciences, and guess what! I am also kin to Charlemagne. And so are you.

Each generation back, the number of your great grandparents doubles. The length of a generation can be variable. For most cultures, thirty years would be a conservatively long generation. Charlemagne lived in the late eighth century, about forty generations ago. To count how many progenitors you had in the late eighth century we raise two to the fortieth power. That gives about a trillion. The problem is, that's at least a thousand times more than the world population was in AD 800.
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Well, I was going off the "Descended from any of his offspring" idea of line. Vlad didn't have many children that lived to the age of maturity. I don't know if he had any daughters, and his son died childless.
 
ElJuski

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On the Potter / Twilight thing, Rowling's work actually has a shred of talent--and background, to boot.
 
Espy

Espy

Eh, Potter is fun reading that doesn't try and hit you with mormanvampirevirginitygirlsareweakandneedmen every chapter.
 
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I've never read any of the Twilight books, so I can't give an opinion other than I dislike what I've heard about them. Robert Pattinson was cute in the Harry Potter movies though.
 
Cajungal

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Wasabi Poptart said:
I've never read any of the Twilight books, so I can't give an opinion other than I dislike what I've heard about them. Robert Pattinson was cute in the Harry Potter movies though.
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He was. I really think he could go on to make good movies. I never read a full Twilight book, but I have read parts of all of them; my cousins own them. And the writing's... it's pretty bad. I like to know what I'm hating thoroughly, so I actually would like ti get through a whole book sometime. But there are piles and piles of books that I'd enjoy that I wanna read first.
 
Calleja

Calleja

don't do it, seej, seriously... before the movies were released and I knew nothing about the whole Twilight thing but heard the movies were upcoming I thought "oh, cool, vampires! I'll read the books!"... I got the first one at my school's library..... I got through all of it merely because of pride at never having started a book without finishing it. But oh man was it bad. So bad and groan-worthy and.. misogynistic... awful, just awful.

Seriously, life's too short, spend it doing stuff that's worthwhile and not with that crap. Trust me on this one.
 
HCGLNS

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sixpackshaker said:
No. 1479: Great-Grandchildren

A while back a friend got deeply into genealogy. One day he pulled out some papers that showed he was related to Charlemagne. I allowed that was very impressive. Now I've just read an article in the magazine The Sciences, and guess what! I am also kin to Charlemagne. And so are you.

Each generation back, the number of your great grandparents doubles. The length of a generation can be variable. For most cultures, thirty years would be a conservatively long generation. Charlemagne lived in the late eighth century, about forty generations ago. To count how many progenitors you had in the late eighth century we raise two to the fortieth power. That gives about a trillion. The problem is, that's at least a thousand times more than the world population was in AD 800.
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Are you saying that Dave is my ancestor?
 
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HCGLNS;404953][QUOTE=sixpackshaker said:
No. 1479: Great-Grandchildren

A while back a friend got deeply into genealogy. One day he pulled out some papers that showed he was related to Charlemagne. I allowed that was very impressive. Now I've just read an article in the magazine The Sciences, and guess what! I am also kin to Charlemagne. And so are you.

Each generation back, the number of your great grandparents doubles. The length of a generation can be variable. For most cultures, thirty years would be a conservatively long generation. Charlemagne lived in the late eighth century, about forty generations ago. To count how many progenitors you had in the late eighth century we raise two to the fortieth power. That gives about a trillion. The problem is, that's at least a thousand times more than the world population was in AD 800.
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Are you saying that Dave is my ancestor?[/QUOTE]

Only if he doinked a goat.... so, yes.
 
Cajungal

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Calleja said:
don't do it, seej, seriously... before the movies were released and I knew nothing about the whole Twilight thing but heard the movies were upcoming I thought "oh, cool, vampires! I'll read the books!"... I got the first one at my school's library..... I got through all of it merely because of pride at never having started a book without finishing it. But oh man was it bad. So bad and groan-worthy and.. misogynistic... awful, just awful.

Seriously, life's too short, spend it doing stuff that's worthwhile and not with that crap. Trust me on this one.
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You know what? I think I will. A few chapters of that mess was enough. I'll just trust that you're right, and the rest is also awful.
 
Fun Size

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Wait, does this mean that I'm related to Robert Patterson?:wtf:


Wait, DOES THIS MEAN I'M RELATED TO STEPHANIE MEYER?:aaahhh::frusty::waah:
 
Calleja

Calleja

If you go far back enough, you're related to almost every human being on Earth, excluding the really separated people like aboriginal tribes and such.
 
Allen who is Quiet

Allen who is Quiet

Cajungal;404964][QUOTE=Calleja said:
don't do it, seej, seriously... before the movies were released and I knew nothing about the whole Twilight thing but heard the movies were upcoming I thought "oh, cool, vampires! I'll read the books!"... I got the first one at my school's library..... I got through all of it merely because of pride at never having started a book without finishing it. But oh man was it bad. So bad and groan-worthy and.. misogynistic... awful, just awful.

Seriously, life's too short, spend it doing stuff that's worthwhile and not with that crap. Trust me on this one.
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You know what? I think I will. A few chapters of that mess was enough. I'll just trust that you're right, and the rest is also awful.[/QUOTE]

For an alternative, you could read the Mark Reads Twilight blog.
 
Fun Size

Fun Size

So now we're all related? Well, I guess that'll go to show all those people who got all judgmental on my for having sex with my sister. :smug:
 
Null

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Fun Size said:
So now we're all related? Well, I guess that'll go to show all those people who got all judgmental on my for having sex with my sister. :smug:
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Well, we can't really judge you for something we've all done. And by that, I mean having sex with your sister.
 
North_Ranger

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Not to mention the whole humans-schtoinking-Neanderthals bit... Seriously, according to some geneticists, if you have a small, horizontal cleft at the back of your head, just above the juncture of the skull and the spine, it means somewhere down the line one of your Stone Age ancestors played "hide the mammoth sausage" with a Neanderthal.

I have one of those...
 
Fun Size

Fun Size

A mammoth sausage? Niiiiice...

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sixpackshaker;405010][QUOTE=Null;405004][QUOTE=Fun Size said:
So now we're all related? Well, I guess that'll go to show all those people who got all judgmental on my for having sex with my sister. :smug:
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Well, we can't really judge you for something we've all done. And by that, I mean having sex with your sister.[/QUOTE]

And she is not even as good in the sack as your mom... :)[/QUOTE]

Well she's gay. What did you expect?
 
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