Quoting Michael Loo to Nancy Backus on 08-28-18 17:05 <=-

You have a point there... even our Spook took to you... ;) I'm just
going on past experience with Throggy, at multiple family get-togethers
at the house... ;) He will wander through, looking for opportunities,
but doesn't usually stick around much....

I got mixed reviews from the dogs here. Livy took to
me in a mild way, but Josefina the Nicaraguan rescue
mutt came up and licked my hand and then stepped back
and growled, the process repeated several times. She
has calmed down, except when I'm thoughtless enough
to come in the cabin by the wrong door. Geneva, her
owner, says in her or my defense that when she came
into the room with the wrong color slacks the other
day, Josi did the same routine on her.

Rescue mutts can have some odd quirks.... leftovers from past abuse, in
many cases....

One wonders about the Dootzes ... there's no
substantial difference between the Dutch and the
Deutsch, especially in that era - it was all part
of the HRE and/or the Habsburgs, as I recall, with
the Duchy of Brabant and of Muenster sharing both
the Rhineland and the Netherlands. And the language
attributed as Penn Dutch is a "Low German" that the
northwest Germans and the Netherlanders (of the
18th century and possibly even today) would find
mutually comprehensible.

That may be... There was, however, distinction made between the two
groups, and people definitely wanting to be considered one instead of
the other... possibly both ways...

Probably both ways, and that's one potentially
good fallout from the utterly pointless custom
of home DNA testing - people will realize that
their own heritage and that of their closest
enemies are totally the same (or close enough
as makes no difference).

That can be the case even without the DNA, just the research... :)

I was almost afraid to break the news
to my maternal grandmother that families she'd proudly claimed as Dutch
had turned out to be clearly German... fortunately for me, she'd already reluctantly come to that conclusion, having observed some of the family stones in nearby graveyards.... ;) (this being not PA, but NY)

See above, lather, rinse, repeat 100000 times.

She took it well, actually... :) Genealogy research usually contains
surprise revelations of heritage, with or without the DNA testing... :)

He was a less favorite professor. I knew about the
bibulous habits of only my more favorite professors.

...

Ah... so we still don't know if your professor did... but he may have, I suppose... ;)

His son, my classmate, writes that Bill Buckley
gave him (the son) a case of wine for a wedding
gift, so somebody must have learned something
from somebody.

One could well surmise.... :)

My food dislikes have not much to do with their
health effects, and a bit of a mold allergy such
as most normal people have doesn't appear to have
anything to do with it.

OK... :)

Further, I have been known to eat things that are
supposed to be bad for me.

Supposed to, and actually are, are two different things.... ;)

Although after having eaten a quarter pound of
beef fat, I sometimes feel as though I've just
done my body a disservice.

For your stomach's sake... or your heart's....? ;)

ttyl neb

... If things improve with age then I'm approaching magnificence.

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