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neeej
`Olu`olu
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 Posted - 02/23/2005 : 6:42:48 PM
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Hey Jesse---any relation to the Tinsley who's up for an Oscar as a makeup artist?
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`Ilio Nui
`Olu`olu
USA
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Posted - 02/23/2005 : 6:51:14 PM
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Or how about Jamaal Tinsley of the Indiana Pacers?
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hapakid
Luna Ho`omalu
USA
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Posted - 02/23/2005 : 8:05:20 PM
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I used to joke that my caucasian family came from a long line of mobile homes and had no idea how my last name became somewhat common among African-Americans. My dad told me my Iowa-born great-grandfather, whom I never met, was terribly racist and bitter. In my memory, we were all poor and not very successful.
Only recently did I find that there was a wealthy eighteenth-century tobacco farmer named Thomas Tinsley (a distant relative) who likely owned slaves. A sobering thought.
I'm afraid I can't claim any relation to Jamaal Tinsley (basketball), Lee Tinsley (baseball), Boyd Tinsley (music) or any other talented people. If it weren't for those guys, no one would know the name at all.
Hapakid - hapa haole/hapa kanaka.
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`Ilio Nui
`Olu`olu
USA
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hapakid
Luna Ho`omalu
USA
1533 Posts |
Posted - 02/23/2005 : 9:05:47 PM
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Hah! Cosmology AND cosmetology! What a talented bunch!
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Bwop
Lokahi
USA
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Posted - 02/24/2005 : 3:42:40 PM
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Awe! Poor Jesse, you all left out some of the other notable Tinsleys. Tinsley Ellis-- Blues rocker, Eliza Tinsley-- UK rope supplier, Jim Bob Tinsley-- curator of the Jim Bob Tinsley Museum in North Caralina, Bethany Tnsley-- who offers "authentic workouts" in Portland, Maine, Tinsley Mortimer-- socialite, Dr. Tinsley-- PA chiropractor, The Tinsley Investigative Services of Utah And Tinsley Public Relations of Texas, Boyd Tinsley-- violinist, the Tinsley clan from Totopotomoi, Virginia, Prof. Brian Tinsley-- physics and space science, JESSIE TINSLEY-- FROM IDAHO (but born in 1909), Pertsy Tinsley-- house and electro music in LA, Janine May Tnsley-- "Glamor" model, Tinsley Green-- Sussexx home of marble shooting,Inspector General Nikki Green Tinsley-- who wants more mercury emmisions information, Reed Tinsley-- CPA,Prof. Fred Tinsley-- geometric topology, James Tinsley-- trumpet player, Frank Tinsley-- author of "Flying Saucers For EVERYBODY", Peter Tinsley-- economist, Dr. Marion Tinsley-- world famous checker player, JA Tinsley-- who published a paper on "The Hazards of Pschotropic Herbs" (JA, rastafari), Nkrumah Tinsley-- videographer, Bruce Tinsley-- cartoonist, AND Richard Tinsley-- Global investor who runs "a project finance4 boutique" in Australia.
Try one geneology chant wid all dose lolobuggahs! |
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`Ilio Nui
`Olu`olu
USA
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Posted - 02/24/2005 : 4:14:16 PM
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BWOP,
Yeah, it's amazing what you can find when you Google. I still won't buy the stock>
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Reid
Ha`aha`a
Andorra
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Posted - 02/24/2005 : 4:48:21 PM
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Actually, I Google myself regularly, and have done so since the Web started with Mosaic and the National Supercomputer Center, to find out what in the world people are saying about me or recording about me or have left up in one of my prior lives. It is pure self defense. My name is unusual enough that I am always totally surprised that there is somebody out there with my name. There are 2 that I know about, one in Wisc. and one kid who is a B'Ball player in NC, and I am gonna blame both of them for my public pecadillos. I thought about hiring a contract on them :-) - Nah! I am also surprised that some important (or so I thought) stuff (especially the Harvard Museum stuff) has been removed and some trivial stuff remains. The web is wierd. DO NOT Google Sarah or Thomas Whitaker - you will get blasted with Sarah's geneology because, being Southron early immigrants, they only distinguish themselves by their middle names. Bazillions of them, but none as nice as my Sarah (although Sarah Ann in Idaho is a darling and going to be President one day).
It is like looking at your credit records that somebody stole.
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Bwop
Lokahi
USA
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Posted - 02/24/2005 : 5:35:36 PM
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| Auwe! Sarah-- president, Bethany-- "authentic workouts", Janine-- "Glamor model". So little time... But, I only want to spend it with my Pie Li'ili'i. |
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hapakid
Luna Ho`omalu
USA
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Posted - 02/24/2005 : 5:38:01 PM
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Reid,
I knew about some of the Tinsleys you mentioned. However I have time to Google my name in the newsroom where I work and the only other Jesse Tinsley I've found is another newspaper reporter! Creepy.
I think the name Tinsley is among the many miscellaneous Anglo names out there, many ending in -ley, -ton or -cott or whatever. Average is okay with me.
My phone book listing for many years was conveniently mispelled by the phone company so I knew to hang up on someone asking for "Mr. Tingsley."
I also have to hang out at the county courthouse where I study the names on the docket for courtroom appearances. Some people are cursed with names that seem to lead them down the road towards the criminal justice system.
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Russell Letson
`Olu`olu
USA
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Posted - 02/25/2005 : 2:57:24 PM
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For years I thought that it was just me and my dad (I'm a Jr.), but out of the blue a couple years back I got an e-mail from a Russell Letson 90 miles away in St. Paul asking if I was the guy who wrote for Acoustic Guitar that he was sometimes confused with. I responded that if he was a Russell, Jr., I was going to reconsider my position on the Easter Bunny, and *he* answered that he had been named for a father who died in WWII just before he was born. Turns out he's only 4 months older than I am, but is Russell G. rather than Russell F., so I get to remain skeptical re: the Bunny. And in the Pacific Northwest lives yet another Russell Letson who is a guitarist. (And since he's making a living at it, I assume he's more skillful than I am.) Who'da thunk it? (That there are so many Russell Letsons, not that the other guy is a better picker than I am. That's all too believable.)
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`Ilio Nui
`Olu`olu
USA
826 Posts |
Posted - 02/25/2005 : 5:41:15 PM
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Russell,
Since you're Spacedog and I'm Slackdog maybe we're dogs-in-law.
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Reid
Ha`aha`a
Andorra
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Posted - 02/26/2005 : 05:22:22 AM
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There is a funny thing about European last names that the lordly Brits found out in the middle of the 1800's. Some last names are immortal (in human time scales) and most die out rapidly. The Brits of the Royal Society were worried that noble families were dying out, but they found out it was just a consequence of a peculiar kind of chance, because last names in Europe and America are inherited like sex-linked genes. The work resulted in the mathematics of "over dispersed" distributions (like the negative binomial) They were relieved that the nobility was safe - mostly :-)
IBM, in about 1970, determined the first 100 immortal names and published them. "Kaplan" and "Whitaker" are immortal names, and "White" and "Smith" were first in line then. It would be interesting to know how that has changed with so much immigration.
Too bad that people with those immortal names are so obviously mortal.
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