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17 January 2006

Smurfit Institute of Genetics at Trinity discovers jonmc's great-granddad: "the chromosome also turned up in roughly 2 percent of all male New Yorkers."

post by: orthogonality at: 15:51 | 8 comments

Papa, Smurfit?

posted by orthogonality 17 January | 15:54

I am totally changing my name to Niall of the Nine Hostages.

posted by jrossi4r 17 January | 15:57

So will my genetic fitness improve if I become a warlord?

*begins sharpening spear*

posted by killdevil 17 January | 15:58

So this would mean that Me & the Wino are probably distant cousins. Freaky.

posted by jonmc 17 January | 16:00

Maybe we shouldn't keep the baby.

My surname isn't on that (brief, incomplete)list in the article, but we are probably very distant cousins if for no other reason than the not Irish part of me is Swedish and we all know where the red hair in the Irish came from. Hell I'm probably my own cousin.
Awesome.

posted by Divine_Wino 17 January | 16:34

Maybe we shouldn't keep the baby.

Well, the extra limbs will come in handy at laundry time, at least.

posted by jonmc 17 January | 16:39

Whoa, that's me then. I'm an O'Neill from way back.

posted by mygothlaundry 17 January | 22:08

mygoth: the only chromosome shared by all Nialls (and it's shared in several mutated forms) is the Y chromosome. Which you don't have.

posted by orthogonality 18 January | 10:13

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