The yanks loved my accent, or so they said. Not like my brother's "phony Irish accent" when he worked in a bar in St Louis and turned off the football on TV because the live music was due to start.
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I've said it before, I'll say it again, Celts don't talk, they sing.
Yeah, West Virginia isn't known for diversity in the gene pool, if you get my drift.
Sounds like England.
The reason for the hill billy stereotype is small fixed populations with limited opportunity for movement…
England is basically the opposite of that with one fifth of the US population in a fraction of the area
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We're not even that diverse from cats. Humans share about 90% of their DNA with cats.
And about 70 odd percent with a banana. However the genetics of inbreeding are all about a tiny part of the DNA
They all laughed at me when I said I identified as a banana...
We're all related!
Sometimes I look at certain members of my family and think, "How is it possible that we share any genetic connection at all?" Given the vast amount of information stuffed into our DNA, it's a wonder family members turn out anything like each other.
Nature vs nurture with all that. The debate continues....
Just physical characteristics can vary to the point that siblings don't resemble each other. My brother has black hair, olive complection, and eyes so dark brown that they look black. As a child, I had fair-skin, pale gold blond hair, with green eyes. (The hair has darkened over the years to a shade my hair dresser told me is "the color blonds go when they don't dye.") The two of us together didn't even look like we belonged to the same race, let alone the same family: he looked Latino, I looked Norse. We do share were some family anomolies, so have never actually been able to deny the relationship. 
Genetics are a funny thing, if you end up more like your mom or your dad. So, even though my oldest sister is the spitting image of my Dad in looks and personality and I am just like my Mom, each of us got exactly half our genes from each parent.
Maybe it has something to do with which genes end up getting expressed?
Maybe it has something to do with which genes end up getting expressed?
Well, yeah. We have an enormous pile of genes that can be expressed and aren't limited to those exhibited by our parents. One of my cousins is a dead ringer for our great grandmother.
I read an interesting article yesterday about how fetal cells can pass through the placenta and become a permanent part of the mother and then those cells can again migrate to another fetus, thereby embedding the cells of your siblings in you.
That is interesting. I don't suppose you recall the title or authors of the research, she says wistfully.
I'm the eldest, so no sibling cells adhered to me. I'm not going to tell my brother about this- no doubt he'd claim all his short comings are due to my invasive cells.
I'm the eldest, so no sibling cells adhered to me. I'm not going to tell my brother about this- no doubt he'd claim all his short comings are due to my invasive cells.
It was an article in The Atlantic
