Surf's Where?
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Way back in the days of olde...
I finally went on my first surfing safari of the summer, here at the end of it, with Phillip Johnson. It was pretty dang dead out there but it was pretty fun anyway. Well, aside from the 15 year old girls that waded around us and annoyed the poo out of us.
My pride in my family name finally got to me about a month ago when, on a whim, I searched the internet for the long lost answer to the great question of Sloan. Where did I come from? Disheartened after a day of no answers I decided I'd just email Frank Sloan of "The Sloan Connection" with some facts about the generations of my family that I knew about and see if he knew anything.
After a month of communication and searching, I'm happy to say that good 'ol Frank did his homework!
He traced me back to the (probably) Scottish man, John Sloan, who was born about 250 years ago. He imported himself and started procreating in what is now Moore County, NC. So you see, I'm pretty "old school" to North Carolina.
So...don't call me a yankee transplant...or any of that garbage...
PURE BREED BABY!!! WOOOT WOOO!
Now to nibble away obnoxiously at a pop tart for 32 minutes!
3 comments:
So who's this Frank guy? I grew up hearing that our family goes way back to some brilliant guy in England who worked for a rich Lord and killed his boss, took his castle and money. We're a family of rogues!Hah! Way cooler than what "Frank" A.K.A."Mr.Rain on my family lore parade" had to say. If what "Frank" says is true and I come from a respectable bloodline,I'm gonna throw myself off a bridge or at least do my best to marry into a completely and hopelessly corrupt or redneck family.
Beca Sloan
P.S. Just read your posting about shagging and I completely agree with you. I have watched those 50-somethings give shagging lessons and it's just thier idea of a cruel joke. I watched for half an hour once and they never repeated the same foot pattern twice. Then with a condescending smirk on their faces turned and asked "now who's ready to try?" Excuse me, but I'll just grab the closest dumbfounded-looking guy and Charlie Brown dance for the next half hour of "someone's idea of a good time" misery. Rogues don't have to dance Nathan, but if we do by chance take a notion to, it most often takes the form of random booty shakin'.
-Beca
Ha, I'm sure we were mixed with a few "rogues" in the family line somewhere. Don't despair quite yet. Who knows why this "John Sloan" character left Scotland anyway? Was he looking for land or did he HAVE to leave??? EH? EH!? Chew on that one and come up with your own story!
As for dancing, specifically shagging, I still maintain my strict boycott on it in my own life. You are correct in that I could more than likely do some "random booty shaking," but I have thus far chosen to spare those around me the embarrassment of realizing their inferiority.
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