What's the oppostite of ancestor?

[sweetnpetite]

Somebody help me, I'm drawing a blank!

 

[BlackShanglan]

Descendant?

Progeny?

 

[minsue]

Descendant?

Edited to add - I see Shanglan beat me to it. At least I can comfort myself with coming up with the same answer.

 

[shereads]

Sally Hemmings?

 

[Guest]

Uncle.

 

[sweetnpetite]

Descendant?

Progeny?

I was looking for descendant- thanks you guys are fast!!

(If I'm ever on Millionaire, I know who to put as phone a friend. "Well, Merideth, I'd like to phone my ambiguously gendered pony friend from the porn site I frequent...")

 

[NoJo]

Uncle.

Hah. Made you say "uncle".

 

[Guest]

Hah. Made you say "uncle".

Buck?

 

[BlackShanglan]

Descendant?

Edited to add - I see Shanglan beat me to it. At least I can comfort myself with coming up with the same answer.

*purrrr* The AV is back.

Sorry to beat you, but it's the only way to keep your insufferable brilliance in check.

Shanglan

 

[BlackShanglan]

I was looking for descendant- thanks you guys are fast!!

(If I'm ever on Millionaire, I know who to put as phone a friend. "Well, Merideth, I'd like to phone my ambiguously gendered pony friend from the porn site I frequent...")

*Grin* I'm actually not bad at the ones to do with history, literature, or words, and I usually know immediately whether I know it or I don't.

And wouldn't it be worth it to listen to the phone and hear me stamping once for A, twice for B ... ?

Shanglan

 

[minsue]

*Grin* I'm actually not bad at the ones to do with history, literature, or words, and I usually know immediately whether I know it or I don't.

And wouldn't it be worth it to listen to the phone and hear me stamping once for A, twice for B ... ?

Shanglan

 

[Guest]

Sally Hemmings?

I love you!

The Thomas Jefferson impersonator at Williamsburg was asked by a little girl if he had any grandchildren. He told all about his children and grandchildren and then added "I'm told I have more descendants than any other US President."

All the adults laughed. He gave the audience a glaring sidelong look, and then said "I don't know what that invokes such tittering!"

 

[BlackShanglan]

Sally Hemmings?

All right, I'll display my ignorance. Who the devil is Sally Hemmings?

 

[she_is_my_addiction]

All right, I'll display my ignorance. Who the devil is Sally Hemmings?

A slave that Abraham Lincoln supposedly slept with. There's a possibility that they even produced a child or children.

 

[Guest]

A slave that Abraham Lincoln supposedly slept with. There's a possibility that they even produced a child or children.

Uh, close. Thomas Jefferson. The Jefferson Family has even acknowledged it, or come close anyway.

http://www.monticello.org/plantation/lives/sallyhemings.html

 

[minsue]

All right, I'll display my ignorance. Who the devil is Sally Hemmings?

Here is the biography from the Monticello website, Shang. I found it rather amusing in and of itself, all things considered.

http://www.monticello.org/plantation/lives/sallyhemings.html

 

[minsue]

A slave that Abraham Lincoln supposedly slept with. There's a possibility that they even produced a child or children.

Yes, as Ted stated it was Jefferson and DNA has removed pretty much any doubt.

http://www.people.virginia.edu/~rjh9u/tomsally.html

 

[Lisa Denton]

Somebody help me, I'm drawing a blank!

Damn heathen kids!!!

 

[sweetnpetite]

Thanks for the links- very imformative. (I knew who sally Hemings was, but not much detail about it)

 

[BlackShanglan]

Ah, got you. I had heard that about Jefferson - in fact seem to recall one of his near-contemporaries castigating him viciously for it. How did it go ... the phrase that stuck in my mind was "and saw his own children brought to the block," which does indeed make one shudder.

But I never knew a name.

Shanglan

 

[BlackShanglan]

His own father-in-law's child. How thoroughly repulsive.

I know one cannot fairly hold individuals responsibile for the sins of an entire society, but how could anyone look upon situations like that and defend the institution of slavery? It is monstrous, the lies that humans will tell themselves.

Shanglan

 

[minsue]

His own father-in-law's child. How thoroughly repulsive.

I know one cannot fairly hold individuals responsibile for the sins of an entire society, but how could anyone look upon situations like that and defend the institution of slavery? It is monstrous, the lies that humans will tell themselves.

Shanglan

Yes