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And what I do is make great cups of tea! :D
And start new pages on threads...
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Is everyone on this thread Irish? Jeez... Oh well. I am too.
Anyway, one of my family mottos (we seem to collect them) is 'Transfixus Sed Non Mortuus' (I don't know what that means) fom the Walsh branch of the family (my last name is Mallon). We're originally from (read: before the famine) Counties Longford and Tyrone.
I did a little digging, and found out that one of my other family mottos (the Mallon one) is 'Gaudet Patentia Duris.'
Does anyone know what that means?
-Mr. Shiny
I did a little digging, and found out that one of my other family mottos (the Mallon one) is 'Gaudet Patentia Duris.'
Does anyone know what that means?
-Mr. Shiny
My quick translation would be "Rejoice, openly and strongly". In others words: "Say it loud, say it proud."
Alsanii and Ring of Five, I am also a Scot by ancestry. The Spence family motto is "virtute aquiritor honos", which apparently means "honour is acquired by virtue."
Sounds like my ancestors were regular sir Galahads, as opposed to you two rascally brawlers ;) The little blurb I found on google said the Spence family have been the earls of Fife since very ancient times. That's pretty cool actually, and I didn't know that.
I don't have alot of history to go on for my family. I do know that my maiden name is Rusk, and looked up in the dictionary means 'slightly toasted biscuit'
A family motto I tell my kids everyday before school "remember, always protect those smaller or weaker than yourselves"
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..."remember, always protect those smaller or weaker than yourselves"
I'm 6'1", 210lbs, very fit and somewhat skilled in Krav Maga. One day after work, I went home and thought I'd show my wife some techniques I'd learned that morning; techniques designed to get you out of those holds that are supposedly impossible to get out of.
My wife is a black belt.
The next thing I knew I was flat on my back gasping for air; I could not move.
Oh...my wife?
She's 4'11", 92 lbs.
..."remember, always protect those smaller or weaker than yourselves"I'm 6'1", 210lbs, very fit and somewhat skilled in Krav Maga. One day after work, I went home and thought I'd show my wife some techniques I'd learned that morning; techniques designed to get you out of those holds that are supposedly impossible to get out of.
My wife is a black belt.
The next thing I knew I was flat on my back gasping for air; I could not move.
Oh...my wife?
She's 4'11", 92 lbs.
I guess the saying is true, "it's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog"
Still, I want my kids to take care of those school yard bullies picking on the kids who are littler or different. I'm hoping it will teach my children compassion.
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My name is Craig Shackleton; Craig was my Grandmother's maiden name.
The Craig Family motto is "J'ai Bon Esperance," which means "I have good hope." The crest is of a knight with a broken lance, charging.
The Shackleton Family motto is "Through Endurance We Conquer." Sir Ernest Shackleton named his ship "The Endurance" because of this. If you don't know about Sir Ernerst, you should.
And people wonder why I'm as stubborn as hell.
This is not so much a motto as a family quirk.
The MacNeil clan on the isle of Lewis were pirates in the Hebrides.
Every evening the crier would go to the battlements of the castle and call out "The great MacNeil has now eaten. The rest of the world may now eat."
And the family toast is equally vain.
"Heres to us. Who is like us?"
"Not many, and they're all dead"