Ups and Downs

Reviewing the Ancestry.com records, we see that Uncle Art's mother's maiden name was Downey. Ok, so did someone use that fact to make some dumb joke about the Butterfields being "downs"? I don't remember that. Yet that is the impression that was given, even though Larry Downs would probably have something to say about that except that he now works for a competing company so he will not be consulted. And would being "uppity-ups" resolve this "Downey" problem? We like Downey laundry softener so we really don't care nor were we aware of this dumb "down" joke nor do we get it or think that it is funny forty years later. We are aware of psychos who would turn a tiny fact like that into a huge out-of-context blizzard but it really means nothing to me.