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Iceland Is So Inbred It Needs a Website to Avoid Incest
Gizmodo ^ | Feb 6, 2012

Posted on 02/11/2012 9:52:19 PM PST by Slings and Arrows

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To: Slings and Arrows

The Island of Dr Moreau


61 posted on 02/12/2012 3:47:29 AM PST by ronnie raygun (V)
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To: donmeaker
the Russians do something similar, with your middle name being derived from your parent’s first name, but with last names being inherited from the father.

It's not actually a "middle name," though it comes between the first and surname.

You are referring to the so-called "patronym" (i.e. "father's name").

Thus, the full name of Anna, the daughter of Ivan Kerensky Sr., would be (until marriage) Anna Ivanova Kerenskaya. Her brother, Ivan Jr., would have the full name Ivan Ivanovitch Kerensky.

Those full names would be the ones appearing in their official papers, but one is hardly ever called by one's full name. Rather, it is considered polite and respectful to use the first name AND patronym (but not the surname) in addressing another person with whom one is not (yet) on a first-name basis. Honorifics and titles like "Professor" or "Colonel" are then dropped. Only in adversarial and confrontational situations would one be addressed only by the surname.

Regards,

62 posted on 02/12/2012 3:53:36 AM PST by alexander_busek
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To: Vigilanteman
It was common for a ship to show up off the coast of Ireland or Scotland. Officials would step off dockside and read the names of a list of families who were to report for transportation to America.

I was talking to my elderly uncle after my father passed away about my dad's temperment. Uncle told me that our family had been booted out of the old country for meaness. I guess there may have been some truth to that statement.

63 posted on 02/12/2012 4:01:39 AM PST by rightly_dividing
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To: Slings and Arrows

I’m sure there will be many willing to introduce new genetic material into the Icelandic genetic pool....all for the good Iceland, of course.


64 posted on 02/12/2012 4:04:41 AM PST by count-your-change (You don't have to be brilliant, not being stupid is enough.)
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To: Slings and Arrows

Ha! Ha! That guy sounds like Ernest T. Bass.


65 posted on 02/12/2012 4:07:21 AM PST by Krankor (It's time you started thinking inside your head, that you should you stand up and fight.)
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To: GeronL

66 posted on 02/12/2012 4:13:44 AM PST by Neidermeyer
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To: Slings and Arrows; Lazamataz
Thanks, Slings.

Laz -- it appears that your services are urgently needed.

Cheers!

67 posted on 02/12/2012 4:23:14 AM PST by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: decal

From our Strange but True Department: West Virginia doesn’t allow first-cousin marriages.

How about siblings?


68 posted on 02/12/2012 4:23:52 AM PST by brooklin
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To: Slings and Arrows
Weird Al Yankovic

(Listen all the way through...)

Chers!

69 posted on 02/12/2012 4:26:46 AM PST by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: Levante
The third solution is to reopen the closed US Navy Air station at Keflavik and ship in about 10,000 single American sailors, Marines, and Airmen ;)

Or, in a pinch, just se-men.

Cheers!

70 posted on 02/12/2012 4:32:58 AM PST by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: Slings and Arrows

Taiwan is the same way. Hell, I think everybody is 1st or 2nd cousins to everybody else here.


71 posted on 02/12/2012 4:36:49 AM PST by Tainan (Cogito, ergo conservatus sum)
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To: Slings and Arrows

“Somebody in West Virginia just slapped his forehead. ;^) “

And here I was thinking it was New Jersey.


72 posted on 02/12/2012 5:12:36 AM PST by dljordan ("Tyranny, like Hell, is not easily conquered.")
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To: Krankor

Strangely enough, the band is Swedish.


73 posted on 02/12/2012 5:23:49 AM PST by Slings and Arrows (You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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To: grey_whiskers

Laz can’t reply to your ping - he’s too busy learning Icelandic.


74 posted on 02/12/2012 5:25:54 AM PST by Slings and Arrows (You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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To: grey_whiskers

Roll Tide.


75 posted on 02/12/2012 5:27:25 AM PST by Slings and Arrows (You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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76 posted on 02/12/2012 5:34:13 AM PST by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: Slings and Arrows
i'm pretty sure we have more then a few in the US willing to help with the problem...

(i know this one will rank high with freepers ;)

77 posted on 02/12/2012 5:42:27 AM PST by sten (fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
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To: martin_fierro
Just D@mn, martin.

I Googled "Icelandic Hotties" or somesuch for a satiric (satyric?) picture for this thread, and that's the first hit I got too...

Cheers!

78 posted on 02/12/2012 6:08:00 AM PST by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: Slings and Arrows

WellDUH! LOL!


79 posted on 02/12/2012 6:11:21 AM PST by Monkey Face (Stop repeat offenders. Don't re-elect them!)
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To: Neidermeyer

She’s my cousin? Who cares!


80 posted on 02/12/2012 6:28:57 AM PST by GnL
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