The Trash Heap of the Heapers' Hangout

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  • “I'm surprised. Those clothes… but, aren't you…?”
    Who is that dude?
  • Reginald II of Guelders, also known as Reginald The Black.

    Allegedly, an ancestor of mine, but any family tree that goes back to the 1300s is dubious by default.

    Everyone on that side of the family seems to believe it though.

    None of the other guys I'm related to are notable enough to have paintings of them floating around on the internet.
  • I'm also related to a dude named Tilman The Barreler, but he's not famous, he's just got a funny nickname.
  • I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    this is making me have another bout of "I wish I were rich" feelings
  • Anonus said:

    this is making me have another bout of "I wish I were rich" feelings

    I'm not rich.

    Some people I'm related to are! My aunt (by marriage, Donna Fogel) is the CFO of a credit union (a shitty one, google PPL Gold).

    I'd talk badly about her, but I get the feeling that Donna actually would share some of her money with us if her husband weren't such a prick.
  • edited 2014-07-19 05:19:01
    kill living beings
    i'm like a fifth cousin of zachary taylor

    he sends me christmas cards... FROM HELL
  • hey it could be worse

    you could be related to Millard Filmore

    or--eesh--Andrew Johnson
  • my friend Carlos is related to Martin van Buren, actually. I just remembered that.
  • what am I even talking about

    it's five thirty in the goddamn morning holy shit
  • I could regale you with more tales about my family


    surely you all wish to hear of Otto, who was the greatest shoemaker in all of Hanover
  • I can feel my brain melting and it is somewhat unpleasant
  • holy shit did you guys know that the EarthBound sondtrakk is like 3 and a half hours long
  • i could tell stories from my family
  • and here, Mo arrives in the purgatory of her own making. Condemned to sleepy eyes and blippy 8bit music for all eternity
  • naney said:

    i could tell stories from my family

    oh hi other people are real and not just a figment o' my imagination

    yes please, do so.
  • i had a great uncle who had ketchup with everything
  • “I'm surprised. Those clothes… but, aren't you…?”
    My dad's family was actually one of the first Jewish families to settle in Pennsylvania, perhaps in the US. Came over from the Polish Commonwealth (such as it was) in the eighteenth century, although their name is Dutch, indicating that they likely fled the Netherlands during the Reformation.
  • I think there's one of those in every family

    we call them the outcasts and place them in boxes. Some literal, some figurative.
  • I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    why does DC have so many stupid-ass characters

    am I buying a pile of shit

    (At least there's the cartoon characters)
  • My dad's family was actually one of the first Jewish families to settle in Pennsylvania, perhaps in the US. Came over from the Polish Commonwealth (such as it was) in the eighteenth century, although their name is Dutch, indicating that they likely fled the Netherlands during the Reformation.

    one branch of my family (the Fogels) came over here long enough to have a couple towns named after them.

    The branch I am more immediately descended from are descendents of my great....times four, I think, grandfather, who I don't know much about beyond that he was a colonial soldier and thus probably a dick. Also the only other Nathan in the family besides myself.
  • I actually do wonder why he was named that since Nathan is a Jewish name primarily, and while there is some evidence we're related to the Jewish Aumanns distantly, it's not nearly close enough that that'd be a factor.
  • I'm sorry, I'm monopolizing the conversation rather badly.

    I should get to bed anyway I suppose.
  • I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    I don't know much about my family history

    My dad's side came from Ethiopia and I don't know why they have the last name "Powell"...

    "Powell" is also somehow my last name, despite the fact that my parents were never married
  • Maybe "Powell" is an Anglicanization of an Ethiopian surname?

    I don't know jack anything about Ethiopian, so that's just a guess, but it seems probable.

    My own surname has a million different variations (Auman, Euman, Aumen, Aumensberg, etc.) without the interference of anyone else.
  • also apparently "Ethiopian" is not a language and they spoke something called Ge'ez in Ethiopia.

    my bad
  • edited 2014-07-19 05:58:28
    “I'm surprised. Those clothes… but, aren't you…?”
    Amharic and Tigrinya are the main modern Ethiopian dialects. Ge'ez is kind of like Church Latin or Biblical Hebrew. Somali is pretty common there, too.
  • edited 2014-07-19 05:59:40
    image Wee yea erra chs hymmnos mea.
    Ge'ez is liturgical. The official language is Amharic.

    I'm pretty sure it's illegal for ferrets to be ninja.
  • I realize names of kings are not necessarily representatives of common folks, but it seems like a lot of names that Ethiopian Emperors took were derived from Greek names.

    Maybe "Powell" comes from a form of "Pavlos" (itself the name from which "Paul" derives)?

    That is a complete guess and I am not a linguist, just saying, it could be, hypothetically.

    Amharic and Tigrinya are the main modern Ethiopian dialects. Ge'ez is kind of like Church Latin or Biblical Hebrew. Somali is pretty common there, too.

    oh

    Again, not my area of expertise :x
  • Evil never dies, because it has like 20 one-ups.
  • My dreams exceed my real life

    I have no idea what this song is about but I like it.
  • For once, or maybe twice, I was in my prime.
    Anonus said:

    GOOOOOOOOOOLD


    TERRIBLE, BEAUTIFUL GOOOOOOOOOOLD

    but realtalk I'd love to use my ownership of DC to mess with comic book fans

    GUESS WHAT, BATMAN'S NOT AS GREAT AS YOU THINK HE IS
    Hate to rain on your parade, but The Lego Movie beat you to the punch on Batman.
  • My dreams exceed my real life
    Hey Anonus: Bring back Jimmy Olsen.

    Make The Ventriloquist Batman's archenemy

    Kill off Hal Jordan

    More Plastic Man

    More Elongated Man

    More Steel
  • You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    I'm sad that I slept so long :V
  • You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    Anonus said:

    "Powell" is also somehow my last name, despite the fact that my parents were never married
    My birth certificate has my father's surname as my name, even though my parents wouldn't be married for almost a year after that.

    I always wondered how they got away with that.
  • you see what they did is they put your father's surname on the certificate

    boom
  • For once, or maybe twice, I was in my prime.
    Odradek said:

    Kill off Hal Jordan

    I think the DC fans would actually like that. From what I've seen, DC fans would rather see more of either Kyle Rayner or the DCAU's take on John Stewart. The ones with the unhealthy fixation on Hal Jordan are the DC writers and editors.
  • You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    You know, I had another high school dream this morning

    Somehow those aren't as fun as they were a month ago
  • My dreams exceed my real life
    Also! Superman's new method to deal with major menaces is to snap their neck the moment they cross the line.
  • For once, or maybe twice, I was in my prime.
    Introducing the newest and most important weapon in Batman's arsenal: the bat-gun. It shoots bat-bullets. They're exactly the same as regular bullets, except they have Batman's logo etched into the side.
  • Touch the cow. Do it now.
    Odradek said:

    Also! Superman's new method to deal with major menaces is to snap their neck the moment they cross the line.

    like
  • For once, or maybe twice, I was in my prime.
    Thomas and Marth Wayne come back from the dead. This helps Bruce get over his inner demons and retire from vigilantism. From now on, the comics are about the day-to-day minutia of managing WayneCorp.
  • Touch the cow. Do it now.
    dislike
  • My dreams exceed my real life
    Why are you facebooking imi
  • Touch the cow. Do it now.
    I don't actually have a facebook so I got to do that somewhere

    really I'd rather faceboob
  • image Wee yea erra chs hymmnos mea.
    New story where Bruce Wayne must defeat his foes through the power of interpretative dance.
  • Not a hybrid rabbit-skink spirit
    image
  • Touch the cow. Do it now.

    New story where Bruce Wayne must defeat his foes through the power of interpretative dance.

    like
  • image Wee yea erra chs hymmnos mea.
    Atelier Ruhrohna
    Atelier Totoro
    Atelier Memoomoo
    Atelier Ayesha
    Atelier Eschatology
    Atelier Shallot
  • We've got a MONSTER of a storm right now.
  • You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    Tools said:

    We've got a MONSTER of a storm right now.

    Shall the Crown send emergency aid?
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