Thought for the Day
Ancestry.com’s current radio pitch runs, “What could be more exciting than meeting your favorite movie or television star? How about finding out you’re related to them?”
Don’t most people want to fuck their favorite movie or television star? Finding out you’re related to them would just be icky.
Comment by DonBoy —
October 28, 2006 @ 9:43 am
I think they’re suggesting paternity suits.
Comment by Michael —
October 28, 2006 @ 9:44 am
I’m a lot more likely to use those sites to figure out how I’m related to George Washington (my fourth cousin 7 times removed) than to figure out how I’m related to Angelina Jolie.
The great thing about being related to American historical figures of note is that you can then go on to find how they’re related to European historical figures of note, European nobility, and (through pre-enlightenment genealogy) how you’re related to Adam and Eve.
Comment by matthew hogan —
October 28, 2006 @ 11:30 am
“Don’t most people want to fuck their favorite movie or television star? Finding out you’re related to them would just be icky.”
Boy, you have a limited prurient imagination.
Comment by b-psycho —
October 29, 2006 @ 12:03 am
Honestly, if I found out Salma Hayek was related to me and I had the chance to fuck her, I’d fuck her anyway.
Comment by Michael —
October 29, 2006 @ 1:49 am
“Don’t most people want to fuck their favorite movie or television star? Finding out you’re related to them would just be icky.”
And what of the ones whose favorite TV star is Erkel? I choose to believe that what people want to do with their favorite TV star is watch them on TV, because I refuse to consider the possibility that the Erkel fanclub is really the NAMELA.
Comment by jlw —
October 30, 2006 @ 11:20 am
Finding out you’re related to them would just be icky.
Hey, maybe they are targeting West Virginia and Eastern Tennessee . . . except those geneologies could tie up the software in recursive loops.
Comment by Hogan —
October 30, 2006 @ 1:51 pm
“Don’t most people want to fuck their favorite movie or television star?”
That’s pretty much the definition of “television or movie star.”
Comment by JRoth —
October 30, 2006 @ 11:25 pm
Scarlett Joahanssen? Yes.
George Clooney? Maybe. But the evidence that he and I share no more genetic characteristics than “XY” is pretty much definitive at this point.
Comment by Kevin Carson —
October 31, 2006 @ 2:46 pm
Hey, I live in Arkansas.
When I used to see that Ensure commercial, the one where the little girl says “Grandpa, can I marry you?” I never failed to shout back “Hell, no! Why should I buy the cow when I’m gettin’ the milk for free?”
Comment by Camera Obscura —
November 1, 2006 @ 9:41 pm
My great-grandma was in the movies…
The synchronized-swimming ones back in the early third of the last century.
I guess I’m kinda familially-obliged to say she was my favorite movie star. And no, I’m not interested in intimate relations w/ her long-dead self.