Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder6.news.weretis.net!panix!.POSTED.panix2.panix.com!not-for-mail From: "Keith F. Lynch" Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.fandom Subject: Re: Shocking discovery Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2024 01:05:45 -0000 (UTC) Organization: United Individualist Message-ID: References: Injection-Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2024 01:05:45 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: reader1.panix.com; posting-host="panix2.panix.com:166.84.1.2"; logging-data="27222"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@panix.com" X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test77 (Sep 1, 2010) Bytes: 2182 Lines: 29 Tim Merrigan wrote: > Two points, one, it was already known that William the Bastard's, > aka the Conqueror, parents weren't married (at least to each other). Yes, that was the point of my joke -- that something that's been known for nearly a thousand years was being presented as a shocking new discovery. Another part of my joke is based on the fact that probably everyone now living who has any Anglo-Saxon ancestry is a direct descendant of his. So the likelihood that anyone now living who is descended from Alfred the Great isn't also descended from William is pretty much zero. > And, two, it doesn't matter whether he had a legitimate claim to > the throne, as, since he took the throne by force of arms, the > line starts with him. He actually did have a pretty good claim. He didn't just randomly march into England and say that it was his now. Unfortunately, two others also had pretty good claims, which is why there was a war. That's what scares me about those who say that the 2020 election was stolen. Who is president (or king) is usually much less important than that everyone agrees on who that is. The worst case for 2024 is if half the US population, including half the military, believe that one guy won and the other half are equally sure that the other guy won. Civil wars seldom end well. -- Keith F. Lynch - http://keithlynch.net/ Please see http://keithlynch.net/email.html before emailing me.