Grizz

**Nile** · 31st July 13, 09:56 AM

Greetings Grizz, and welcome to X Marks from Delaware, USA. I really enjoyed your introduction; nice writing. Fraud, doubtful; creative weaver of tails, most probably but, no matter, we are glad you joined this forum.

You know, I can see the title of book one now, "Roger, the Pipe Playing Deer Whisperer".

Nile

**grizz** · 1st August 13, 04:55 AM

Sherlock, you deduce correctly about a tad of 'Irish'. Co. Cork fairly bristles with cousins. Some live minutes from Blarney Castle. But this verbosity atrocity shan't kiss that Blarney stone for fear of going into hyper-drive. Slainte O'Searcaigh!

**grizz** · 1st August 13, 05:01 AM

Originally Posted by O'Searcaigh

Hello and

from The Big South Fork, north central Tennessee!

Maybe some Irish there too? (The gift of blarney)... a budding novelist? Interesting story. Keep writing!

R u from Cork?
I am. R u?
Do you eat potatoes?
Begorrah, I do!
How'd ye eat'em?
Schkin's n' all,
It's a wonder ye don't choke?
'Not' at all!

**grizz** · 1st August 13, 06:08 AM

Thanks Hawk,

Re: your Scots ancestor. Despite being victims of land clearances themselves, the Scots and Irish were right behind the English in their zeal for land-theft, cultural pillage, and casual genocide. Yet many of these men settled and sired families with indigenous women. Perhaps they empathised with First Australians due to their shared: connection to 'country', love of music, dancing and celebration. Our best indigenous leaders seem driven by a 'bog-Irish sense of social justice', (and I've heard them labelled, 'Shamrock Aborigines'!)

Irish and Scots were among the most active and enthusiastic participants in what one contributor describes as "the greatest single period of land theft, cultural pillage, and casual genocide in world history." - See more at: http://www.mqup.ca/irish-and-scottis....fNqbHhOb.dpuf
"the greatest single period of land theft, cultural pillage, and casual genocide in world history." - See more at: http://www.mqup.ca/irish-and-scottis....wHE8JrVd.dpuf

**grizz** · 1st August 13, 06:24 AM

...and I thee

**grizz** · 1st August 13, 07:03 AM

Thanks for the welcome,

That Breaker Morant quote always cuts me up. The AWM Boer War exhibit below the WWI dioramas was a great hidey-hole when I was small http://www.awm.gov.au/atwar/boer/. I longed to pull on a pith helmet and swing a sword. But there were no dress-ups then as now.The WWI exhibit is closed for renovations. It will be re-opened for the 2015 centenary of the ANZAC landings on Gallipoli. There won't be a dry eye for that ANZAC Day Dawn Service.