OT: how many guys here have mixed marriages?

DannyinJapan said:
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A 1939 model Polish and French gal. With me being a 1940 model ndn if we had of had kids together we would've had to name 'em "Runnin Dummy 1", etc.:footinmou ;)
At least none of 'em would've been named Two Dogs.:p
Don't worry, Barb's heard the joke before and I'm still alive.

Actually ndns and Pollocks are a lot alike. If people automatically think you're dumb they don't expect too much out of you and that can often be a good thing.:D
When I do something stupid I say, "Dumb ndn." When Barb does something stupid she says, "Dumb Pollock." so I guess we're even in that way.;)
Our's may be a mixed marriage but it's a good one and one we both waited one helluva long time for.
It's good to finally know that marriage can actually be what Barb and I have always dreamed it could be.
I'm of the opinion that mixed marriages are often harder on the kids as the result of the union rather than the union itself, being a breed myself.:rolleyes:
 
etp77 wrote:
...any Texan that marries anyone from outside of Texas, no matter what their nationallity or race, is in a mixed marriage, least by Texan rules.

My wife was actually born in Altus, OK, but her family moved to the Wichita Falls area when she was 2 or 3 years old. So we just say that she's from Texas, since she got here as fast as she could ;)

David (born, and mostly raised, in Austin, TX)
 
dhuff said:
etp77 wrote:
...any Texan that marries anyone from outside of Texas, no matter what their nationallity or race, is in a mixed marriage, least by Texan rules.

My wife was actually born in Altus, OK, but her family moved to the Wichita Falls area when she was 2 or 3 years old. So we just say that she's from Texas, since she got here as fast as she could ;)

David (born, and mostly raised, in Austin, TX)
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Does she know Paris Hilton? Oh what..that was Altus Arkansas ;)
 
If the Red River had of slightly changed course Altus would be in Tejas anyway.:D
 
Munk! Ye bastid! I _KNEW_ it!

Keith

P.S. If I had a sig line instead of an avatar, that would be it!:D

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"I'm only here to give Ferrous problems." --munk
 
Yes Ferrous, you're a good man, and I've told you so many times, but

PEOPLE GO FISHING TO EAT, TO EAT. That is the NUMBER ONE REASON


and food fighting, like real fighting, is not the providence of only the rich,
BECAUSE MAN FIGHTS, HE FIGHTS ALL THE TIME, HE FIGHTS HIS WAY THROUGH PEACE, TO PEACE, AND BACK OUT OF PEACE UNTIL HE'S FIGHTING AGAIN

(btw, the capitalization was not mean shouting, but made slightly exagerated for purposes of humor and to make a point. I'm not above sounding crazy.)

You need a Munk Death March through the Desert. That's your only hope. WE gotta get these tired half truths of my generation purged out of you.
You've absorbed them through academia, I'm afraid, the last bastion. What have they done to you? Thank God for the khuks and other arms keeping you honest. You're a walking adverstisement that without the second amendment we are lost.

I think bullets and steel are among the few things keeping you on track.
I'll be happy to give your wife credit too.



munk
 
dhuff said:
David (born, and mostly raised, in Austin, TX)
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David, what's that O'Possum on the half shell carrying in his/her mouth if you don't mind saying?

'Course I could've said, "Texas Turkey," "Armored Leper," or a hunert other names as well, but I just happen to like "O'Possum on the half shell," as that's what we mostly call 'em up here in Okiehoma.;)

If it hadn't of been fer the lowly armadillo we might not still have a cure for leprosy. Armadillos are the only animal besides man that contracts and carries it.:eek:
 
dhuff said:
etp77 wrote:
My wife was actually born in Altus, OK, but her family moved to the Wichita Falls area when she was 2 or 3 years old. So we just say that she's from Texas, since she got here as fast as she could ;)
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An OKIE and a Texan? Heck, I thought that wasn't jsut mixed, but illegal. ;)

I know I won't ever let my daughters marry a Texan. ;) Course, don't plan on having any daughters, and more important than Texan rule, won't let them marry anyone like me. :D
 
I was attracted to my wife at first because she was Caribbean Indian, and open to other beliefs. My mother is Cherokee. I never could feel at home completely in either world. Except for the time I would spend with the Elders when I was younger. That's the only time I have felt 100% at home in this world.
My wife is Christian, which I support. In the long run, she didn't understand NDN ways as well as I thought she would, but we seem to do OK.

Mixed marriages aren't always easy, but in fairness, I don't guess any marriage is always easy.

David - Eagle Man
 
Statements like never feeling at home in this world rarely hold up- my own or anyonelses. But I have rarely felt at home in this world- or I'm often at home, I wonder which way it is?


fortunately, you don't have to have unique ancestry to feel alien.



munk
 
Except for the time I would spend with the Elders when I was younger. That's the only time I have felt 100% at home in this world. >> Lion's roar

My statements? That 'never' or 'only time' are suspect blankets that rarely stick- however- I often feel like I'm , 'never' at home on this earth- and simultaniously feel very at home. So which is is? (I ask.) Because the truth is both can be true at the same time. I have spoken at length many times on our approach to perception being either or.

Finally, I observe you can have quite ordinary or pedestrian ancestry and still feel like an Alien.

Sorry for the confusion. Just standard operations here- hopeless abstractions. Nothing an old Zen hound like you can't handle.

munk
 
hold on now, just because I regurgitate my lessons in zen does not make me a master of anyfreakinthing!

I never have nor never will claim to be a master or teacher of any of this crap.

I just offer forth what I learn as I learn it in case anyone is interested.

For the record:
I am a fool and I am full of BS.
Signed,
Danny Fletcher
 
Danny, I said you were a Zen Hound, not a master. Hound is good though- hot on the trail!

stop putting yourself down. It does little good. We're all assh--es on this bus.
munk
 
Bah. Speak for yourself! :D

Danny, you just need some good hard training. Nothing adjusts my attitude like getting my @ss beat in a way that I can really learn from. :cool:

John
 
I've a baseball bat if either of you want to stand still for it! ;-)
 
No, Munk. After 35 yrs of life this round, my comment was pretty much on point. Your experience may be different. Mine is what it is. After some thought, I realize I get similar feelings of being at home with my children and sometimes in Nature.

Growing up with an NDN family in the bible belt has been a unique experience.

Please don't misread my words. I have meant all of this as just a sharing of life experience, not as a complaint of life.
Nothing negative - just observation.
 
No, Munk. After 35 yrs of life this round, my comment was pretty much on point. Your experience may be different. Mine is what it is. After some thought, I realize I get similar feelings of being at home with my children and sometimes in Nature. >>>Lions roar

My observation was that absolutes rarely are justly applied, if ever. I"m 48 and may feel differently than I did when I was 35. But I'm not prepared to allow as any have had a more alien experience, a Stranger in a Strange Land, experience than my own. I think you would have to be schizophrenic or autistic to be more alone. That said, there are moments of wonderful clarity and belonging- don't we define one with the other- a stranger with coming home? Thus I can't say for certain- I've been gravely depressed the last ten years of which this forum has helped.

You see, being as far outside as I've been, it has forced me to make home- to learn to stand. I think wandering the desert helped a lot too.

These things are subjective- let me add this- how fantastic would it be for me to land in your head and skin for a day- and exclaim- "I'm found, I'm found, I'm found." Or for you to land in mine and yell; "I'm lost, I"m lost." Or vica versa.
ARe you familiar with the predicament of the Bell Jar and Slyvia Plath? (sic?)

One thing for certain- when we find home, it's been there all along. Like a religious experience, waiting just outside our reach. So simple-
I'm fond of saying that when we find God it's as if He's never been gone, and when He's gone it's as if He's never been here. Substitute yourself for God.

Anyway, it matters not. There is no valid comparision.

munk
 
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