By: dnash
Actually, I don't want to go back far enough to find a title to try to claim - I'd settle for finding a legit coat of arms.There is no such thing as a 'coat of arms for a surname'. Many people of the...
View ArticleBy: dorian
quite right, KW. by coincidence, I'd just been reading Vance's Domains of Koryphon where he makes the obvious statement to the effect that if you go back far enough, nearly all titles and land...
View ArticleBy: KnitWit
Dorian True enough, after a bit of genealogical research it was discovered I'm a direct line descendant from the former Duke of Annadale. Of course I've also trace back to sheep thieves and a witch...
View ArticleBy: dorian
what's funny is that rather a lot of the "legitimate" titles that Richard says "no-no you can't have," were bought/stolen/etc. back when Cromwell was up to his usual shenanigans. i.e., so many of these...
View ArticleBy: Civil_Disobedient
Count Civil von Disobedient, a brackish, scurvy dog of a scoundrel that ever liv'd in this good towne of Bo§ton.
View ArticleBy: tyro urge
"You can have your own king, your own emperor, your own pope, your own dukes, your own everything..." --Marcus Garvey I'd rather just refer to everyone else as "dude." Why buy a title when I can just...
View ArticleBy: vbfg
Can anyone else not read the Earl of Bradford's address without hearing this spoken in a clipped and soft-voweled English accent? If he is from Bradford lad thez beggar all chance of that.
View ArticleBy: billsaysthis
BillSaysThis is honorific enough for this humble human. You bunch of snooty patooties!
View ArticleBy: arto
[Bugs Bunny]So, ah, do you know Sir Duke of Ellington or Sir Count of Basie?[/Bugs Bunny]
View ArticleBy: namespan
Can anyone else not read the Earl of Bradford's address without hearing this spoken in a clipped and soft-voweled English accent? Perhaps this would help. Or this. Bork Bork.
View ArticleBy: badzen
you gotta love it when an english lord pronounces someone a "scoundrel"... so historical soundin' henceforth, i will known as Sir Phobos, Knight of Mars
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