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Sheldon Adelson's Grandfather Was a Welsh Coal Miner???
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| May 13, 2016
| PJ-Comix
Posted on 05/13/2016 12:39:27 PM PDT by PJ-Comix
Okay, I'm a big Trump supporter and I am glad that Seldon Adelson ANNOUNCED in the Washington Post that he also supports Trump. However, one line from Adelson's announcement has me really perplexed:
Despite being the grandson of a Welsh coal miner and the son of a Boston cab driver, I’ve had the remarkable experience of being part of almost 50 different businesses in my more than 70-year business career.
A Welsh coal miner? Really? This is as perplexing as if Adelson had announced that he was the grandson of a Samurai warrior.
TOPICS: Humor
KEYWORDS: sheldonadelson
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Still scratching my head (and chuckling) over this one especially since a search on Adelson's bio reveals no Welsh coal miner relatives. Perhaps Adelson and Loretta Lynn (coal miner's daughter) are cousins?
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posted on
05/13/2016 12:39:27 PM PDT
by
PJ-Comix
To: PJ-Comix
The same line worked great for both Joe Biden AND Neil Kinnock. Why shouldn’t he use it?
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posted on
05/13/2016 12:42:56 PM PDT
by
Dr. Sivana
("There is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don't care who gets the credit."-R.Reagan)
To: Dr. Sivana
I don’t think Biden claimed he was from a line of Welsh (or any other type) coal miners. He just stole the rest of the bit from Kinnock who believably had coal mining relatives.
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posted on
05/13/2016 12:44:39 PM PDT
by
PJ-Comix
(Tell It, Skinner, about your Clinton Cash Payoff Money)
To: PJ-Comix
Why wouldn’t he be the grandson of a Welsh coal miner.
(I mean, yeah, I presumed he was Jewish. But you combine the Jewish stereotype for loving diamonds, with the Welsh stereotype of never wanting to pay for someone, and SOME Welsh guy must’ve figured if he got into coal mines, he’d find his own diamond mine.)
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posted on
05/13/2016 12:45:48 PM PDT
by
dangus
To: PJ-Comix
Maybe he meant is grandfather was once a welching, cold minor?
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posted on
05/13/2016 12:46:58 PM PDT
by
El Cid
(Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house...)
To: PJ-Comix
Never heard of her.
Why would it matter who some writer’s ancestors were?
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posted on
05/13/2016 12:47:22 PM PDT
by
humblegunner
(NOW with even more AWESOMENESS)
To: humblegunner
Sheldon Adelson (who today is a male), multi-billionaire, sad this.
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posted on
05/13/2016 12:48:46 PM PDT
by
PghBaldy
(12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
To: PJ-Comix
Hey, mine too - actually more like great-great-grandfather....
To: PJ-Comix
His mother’s maiden name was Tonkin,which is Welch.
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posted on
05/13/2016 12:49:17 PM PDT
by
Mears
(i)
To: humblegunner
Why would it matter who some writer’s ancestors were?It doesn't matter but it also, very hilariously, does NOT compute. Would it be funnier if Adelson claimed his grandfather was a Seminole alligator wrestler or a Mongolian yak herder?
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posted on
05/13/2016 12:50:17 PM PDT
by
PJ-Comix
(Tell It, Skinner, about your Clinton Cash Payoff Money)
To: PJ-Comix
Searching geni.com (probably get the same on other genealogy sites) Sheldon Adelsons mother Sarah Tonkin was born in England. The family (Tonkin/Tonken) seems to go back quite a long way in England. So on his mothers side they aren't Eastern European. Maybe his grandpa on his mother side really was a coal miner. https://www.geni.com/people/Sarah-Adelson/6000000000369382634 Sarah Adelson (Tonkin) Birthdate: March 5, 1907 Birthplace: England, United Kingdom Death: Died May 6, 1985 Place of Burial: Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, United States Immediate Family: Daughter of Abraham Tonken and Gert Tonken Wife of Arthur Adelson Mother of Gloria R. Field; Adelson; Private User; Adelson and Adelson Sister of Morris Tonkin; Benjamin Tonkin; Millie Tonkin; Max Tonkin; Rachel Goodman and 1 other
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posted on
05/13/2016 12:52:08 PM PDT
by
buwaya
To: PJ-Comix
To: PJ-Comix
Not all minors are coal minors.
Diamond, gold , silver .... Lots of different types of minors.
He could have been a minor of a different variety.
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posted on
05/13/2016 12:53:20 PM PDT
by
hoosiermama
(W1240 (a couple extra to boot) l a Under budget. Ahead of schedule! Go TRUMP)
To: Mears
His mother’s maiden name was Tonkin,which is Welch. It is also a Gulf as in Gulf of Tonkin.
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posted on
05/13/2016 12:53:31 PM PDT
by
PJ-Comix
(Tell It, Skinner, about your Clinton Cash Payoff Money)
To: PJ-Comix
Maybe How Green is my Valley is his favorite movie!
To: PJ-Comix
Totally credible. Adelson looks like he has been at the bottom of a mine for 40 years and only recently surfaced!
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posted on
05/13/2016 12:55:51 PM PDT
by
GilGil
To: PJ-Comix
Why couldn’t his Grandad have been a Welsh coalminer?
Are there not coal mines in Wales, or weren’t they present years back? I’m not losing any sleep over this, but just wondered why he shouldn’t be believed.
To: Dr. Ursus
He DOES like green, so you may be correct!
To: lee martell
His grandfather probably lived in Wales but as to being a coal miner? Not so sure. But then again, Elizabeth Warren is an Indian. At least according to the affirmative action papers she filed to get into Harvard.
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posted on
05/13/2016 12:58:56 PM PDT
by
PJ-Comix
(Tell It, Skinner, about your Clinton Cash Payoff Money)
To: PJ-Comix
Without knowing the context, IE who Adelson is.. no.
It wouldn’t be funnier. Maybe I’m just at a disadvantage
having never heard of Adelson.
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posted on
05/13/2016 12:59:17 PM PDT
by
humblegunner
(NOW with even more AWESOMENESS)
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