#ooc

well

So, anyhow

I appreciate the insight. You're not wrong, I just.... the music. It's a MUSICAL.

the music is fine

I mean, I also have musicals where I love the music but hate the book

(CHESS)

Ha!

I don't mind the book so much there; what do you hate about it?

So - I won't just listen to 1776, but I will watch the movie

That works.

the book is too long. drags like crazy, weird pacing, Freddy is a monster, Svetlana is wasted and shallow, Florence is wishy washy, Act II.... oy, act II...

the west end book is BETTER

Yes, I can see that. It's not tight. And DATED. Ok, AFKish for a bit again. Shopping.

West End, the Russian wins instead of throwing the match. 🙂

trader joes!

One last thing: Heaven Help My Heart. UHG.

Maybe Ugh but "I know him so well" FTW.

heaven help my heart is not in the west end

Lafayette is awesome. Why his life hasn't been made into a movie or TV series yet I don't know

Frenchie.

So awesome

Look, I fell into the French jokes trap as hard as anyone in the past decade, but I also love the Three musketeers 🙂

Hey D&Co!

Sides, Layfayette is half adopted by a number of the thirteen colony states anyway G

I'm part French

I'm 25% Pole. Let's compare who had to put up with more jokes for the longer time? 🙂

I should do the spit swab, but the Ritenours are french.

Mostly German, though

German background actually out numbers English from what I hear in most pasty Americans

I am hoping to do a DNA test for my Bday?

Or next year. 5-0.

I'm nervous about those things. SOme places claim they own the right to your DNA info after that.

German, Scot-Irish and French, mostly.

Some English - my surname is Norman. 🙂

Scots-Irish is in me to. I'm told I have some native American and am 1/32 Cherokee. Then again, I think almost everyone tries to claim a little tribal blood just for the glamour of it

We claim to have Shawnee

Scots-Irish, according to LDS & family legend. *G* Part of the whole "Outlander" kick I was on was genealogical; from what I can tell, the first Duff came over from Scotland after Culloden and the Cleansing.

to be fair - that french? Pre-revolutionary fur trappers.

Ooo! One of my DAR ancestors was a Hessian!

I'm not DAR by tcould be. I've thought about it.

BUT could be.

Could be Nod

The Hessian liked America so much that he didn't go home

despite being, y'know, a merc for the Brits

My other Revolutionary soldier is the grandson of the earliest american I can track - she was christened in PA in the 1690s

Yeah, the Hessians had a bad rep

ANd songs about getting gold in America

So Catnik claims by the blood right, all of Pensyvania and some of the Louisiana Purchase 😉

From what I can tell, the Scots during the Cleansings (those who could) said "Screw this, we're going to the Colonies." Settled in familiar landscapes (example, mountains of NC) and at the time of the Revolution said "Fight the Anglish agin? AYE!"

Ok. Time for Solo. I will pop in when I can, and BBL for sure.