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Yes, it does seem a bit odd now, looking back, to think that in our one high school classroom there was a Castro and a Calabria, which is to say a Calabrese. And someone is perhaps now asking, in the newly constituted Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, which one of their houses will be the crowned rules of Sicily? And I am shocked to even hear this question now because at the time of high school that was the farthest thing from my mind.

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Yes, that is somewhat lame, their attempt to sell us distant Strickland connections in America to the Italians of Sicily, on a lame pretext that, for one thing, the Stricklands were among the Normans who first came to England with William the Conqueror, and at the same time there were some Normans who, upon returning from the Crusades, settled in Italy and eventually became the kings of Sicily and Naples, but they were deposed or conquered by the Anjous and others, so that probably there are still could be theoretically some Italians still who have some distant genealogical link to the Normans, but there is nothing very royal or special about that. What? 1 or 2 percent Norman? No, there is no fit for us in Sicily or Malta, either one. Leave me out of that.

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Yes, there has been some speculation about the ethnic origins of my great-grandmother. The question was whether her father was Ukrainian or Irish, and census documents might support either theory for all I know, and some persons were circulating false rumors about her being Jewish, but more recently comes the surprising news that my Dad is actually 9 percent Chechnyan. Although that is not very much, and myself inherited probably less than that because I could never look the part, where does that come from? Apart from the simple fact that Chechnya is somewhere near Ukraine, you could try to drive from Chechnya to Ukraine in a day, I don't really see how that happened. Perhaps some of our distant cousins will be disappointed to learn that the theories of us being part Jewish are actually not true. But then again the Ten Lost Tribes are always out there circulating everywhere. Who knows what other surprising and interesting puzzles may yet be revealed by all this extreme analysis?

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Yes, I imagine that Joni of Iowa is still expecting me to come running to barge into her private session, when actually I am through with caring about the nasty people of Iowa. Needless to say.

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Yes, I agree that on second thought, it would be much better for me to leave the counseling of Dolly Bang-Bang to be carried out privately by those persons who are more qualified and prepared for that. Obviously I wasn't expecting anything of that nature. Shocking. There was something odd about the staging of that, something reminiscent of those fat ugly road hogs Iowa, as if I should care about listening to the worthless private sessions of Jonie. I cannot even open my mouth there without feeling that I am talking to the enemy, so why bother trying? Besides which, I would only be speculating if I were to say something. The proper authorities are those who really ought to explain to me how am I supposed to solve this problem without killing myself. I should be able to clear my own tracks on this planet without creating so many huge problems.

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Yes, it probably does make you wonder why this clueless tobacco dog Heather thinks she has some reason to think herself "up" in this picture. As far as I am concerned, there ain't nothing going on in Heather's empty head. You would probably get a lot more information about Heather if you would target Joan or Kathy, but of course they never tell me anything. I was blocked out of that picture, needless to say.

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Yes, I vaguely remember some discussion online about how they are wanting to make some points about how their surname is Bueno, also a word in Spanish that means Good, so does that mean that they automatically have the "Good Mind" which deserves to be heard, because their surname is good or bueno? If so, then why does Jesus' name have some special meaning, which while there are those who take that point to an extreme, even so, yes, for believers probably that has something to do with Jesus being God, whereas the Bueno brats are Not God. Probably.