Friday, April 13, 2007

Non-story of the day

Shocking news on the BBC and across most of the British press. A guy called Gordon brown who was born in Scotland and speaks with a Scottish accent and a guy called David Duncan Cameron have Scottish ancestry and had ancestors who lived within 150 miles of each other! I bet they spoke to each other loads! Apparently there are also a number of people in England who are English by ancestry and their ancestors used to live within five miles of each others!

WHAT DOES IT ALL MEAN?!!!

3 comments:

Old BE said...

I wonder how many people live within 150 miles of me?

15-20 million?

Paul Linford said...

Quite. As someone once said, simple mathematics dictates that everyone who starts tracing their ancestry eventually traces it back to Edward III. In fact there are probably one or true well-bred basset hounds who could trace their ancestry back to Edward III.

Anonymous said...

I suspect this was just quite interesting, so thanks for repeating it...rather than massively consequential.
much like a lot of what you do...