Which Reminds Me

Yes, another interesting thing that I learned while doing my genealogical research on Ancestry.com was that my cousins have quite a few Downings in their family tree, on their other side. I do not see any Downings in my family tree. So, OK, fine, I had not noticed that until doing my research, and even so, I might never have had occasion to comment or to reflect further on this point, but for their being in quite a snit about painting themselves as "UP," come to think of it, now that you mention it.  As if I should care to hear more about that. I did see the movie "Up," but I have no desire for an address on Downing Street, that I should be bothered with election procedures. Besides which, I myself have endured lifelong teasing about my own name — no I am not a candy cane, no you may not eat me, no I am not necessarily going to taste sweet if you bite me — and duly shrugged it off as the silly unserious nonsense that it really is, so I am obviously NOT going to be sympathetic to these Downing claims of martyrdom rights on the point of name teasing, given that, anyway, nobody knew that on our side. Or at least I did not know. Maybe the genealogist consulted by my Dad's Aunt Julia would know about know something more about these things, but I did not know.