#46

This is my great (great?) aunt, pretty cool life story

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#47

My grandfather worked at United Biscuits and is credited with inventing the Hula Hoop crisp

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#48

There are counties in both Kentucky and Arkansas named after, respectively, one of these senators and after a state secretary. There’s also a small village in New York state but it’s named after early settlers rather than anyone who came to real prominence.

#49

You get this cunt (That’s a term of endearment):

And this distant relative of mine:

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#50

Your great aunt sounds like a BOSS.

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#51

Most interesting is my dad’s cousin, who was in a bunch of nearly bands in the 60s and 70s in the London rock scene. So has a load of cool stories about hanging with Hendrix and playing with Sabbath and stuff.

Some of his stuff is really good too. T2’s It’ll All Work out in Boomland is genuinely a lost classic prog rock album (the NME had it in a list of 100 greatest albums you’ve never heard once) and he was nominated for a grammy a few years ago by way of Gnarles Barkley sampling his band Please, who pop up on the odd 60s psych rock gems compilation

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#54

Aw, thank you…and I’m sorry to hear about your experience. I suspect the main reason the NHS started training and employing nurses as colposcopists was purely to save money (my mum was probably being paid less than half of what a doctor would have been to do the same job) but, yes, a positive side effect is that patients probably now get a more empathetic level of care.

#55

My dad’s cousin (so my 1st cousin once removed?) was an also-ran AOR rock star in the early 80s. He supported Fleetwood Mac on tour when they were at peak Cocaine And Divorces and subsequently co-wrote a song on Mirage which is (afaik) widely considered to be their worst album. Although his song is the only one from that album that made it onto the greatest hits, which I assume is what he still lives off to this day.

I’ve got one of his albums on vinyl and while it’s terrible, the lineup is very impressive (for the time). Christine Mcvie, Stevie Nicks, bass by one of the Eagles. I’ve only met him once but we’re friends on FB where he regularly posts photos of himself hanging out in Hawaii with people like Mick Fleetwood and Steve Tyler, but in a very “LOOK AT ME” way which is kinda sad, but also 100% what I would do in the same position

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#56

My great auntie was on the Titanic. She would have been about 18 or so. She survived and went on to have a long life and a big family out in Pennsylvania I think.

Her nephew, my granddad, used to play for Dulwich Hamlet (do we have any spare indie points kicking around?)

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#57

waiting for someone to mention someone who isn’t actually related to them so I can talk about my godfather’s dad

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#58

Ah awesome! I just assumed they’d be lame shite as a kid. So it took me a long time to borrow the CD off my dad, and I was a bit taken back away when I did

Still spends all his time making music and was really chuffed to find that, in the internet age, T2 actually have a decent following and gets loads of fans messaging him and asking if they still play and stuff. Retired with his wife to Thailand, so don’t see him often but always mine him for stories when I do and it gives me some hope that there’s someone who isn’t a complete square in my family

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#59

That’s cool

I’ve a tenuous link to Fleetwood Mac, myself: my wife’s aunty was FM’s PA. Had a very successful career in music management herself, including the Bananas and Girls Aloud.

Think this means @shrewbie can go ahead and post his bit now

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#60

Don’t wait shrewbs, just do it

#61

Your wife’s aunty 100% would have encountered aforementioned cousin at some point. When he was touring with them, apparently they were all on separate buses and flights to avoid each other - I imagine a PA was pretty integral to that!

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#62

My cousin is into antiques and he looks and speaks like Tim Wonnacott but he isn’t Tim Wonnacott

#63

One of our lot was one of this lot: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guinea_Pig_Club

Another one was a prominent tabloid/tv astrologer in days gone by but i think they’ve faded a bit these days.

I think oddly enough we also have one who was done for smuggling contraband into the country.

#64

russell grant?

#65

No.

#66

Are you actually related to him?

You’ll be pleased to know that his name is still mud amongst my relatives who live on the south coast.

#67

Not at all.

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