Announcement
In hindsight my choice of blog name is unfortunate, because unlike all the “Marmotesses” and “Missus Nomads” that so easily roll off the tongue, I’m pretty stuck for a similar cute name for my wife that doesn’t sound completely forced (The Narratoress?). Nevertheless, I challenge anyone to beat my happy announcement that another “petits récits” will be added to the Narrative family this year, probably sometime in October, and a hat tip to Jean-François Lyotard for the inspiration. For the name that is.
WHO’S THE KING!
I solemnly swear that this will be the first and last time that I’ll comment on my raging virility, at least on the blog…but hell, I sure must be one prime specimen to have gotten my wife pregnant as soon as she (unilaterally) decided to stop using the pill back in September 2005, and again in less than a month after her IUD was removed when we (both) decided to try for another child in January this year, yes?
In the meantime, there really is a family crest that says “I saved the King,” for the proud Turnbull Clan were in fact known as the “Rules” until around 1300, when William of Rule saved King Robert the Bruce of Scotland from a charging bull. I dare say he merely “deflected” it rather than “turned” it, but “Deflectbull” didn’t have the same ring to it somehow, so Turnbull it was. After that, the Turnbull Clan got back to it’s regular business of robbing all the traffic between Scotland and England, and liked it so much that over 75% of the Clan still live in the region today.
Hence my Korean contribution to the Clan, which really needs to get around more. Seriously though, if anyone is interested in learning more than I recommend visiting the ClanTurnbull website…don’t all click at once…and once my wife and I know what sex the baby is, we’ll be open to suggestions for first names to go with **** Jeong Turnbull. But nothing too close in sound to our daughter Alice please, which means that Alexander is out for starters (damn).
(Update: By coincidence, after writing this post I was checking out a blog that was kind enough to link to me, and saw this diagram below explaining the confusing names for the countries in the map above. Hell, I was born there, but even I find them confusing, so I found the diagram and the accompanying article helpful, and figured that I may as well put it up on one of the rare occasions my birth-country makes an appearance on the blog)
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Congratulations!
Thanks!
Excellent! Congratulations!
Congratulations…..
I’d like to challenge you to a virility duel, I think I can beat you
Deuce^^, congratulations
Congratulations!
Congratulations!
And thanks again everybody. Just saw a sonogram today.
Daeguowl, I’m happy to take up your challenge, just so long as you provide the 32 virgins. Each.
OK, 32 each and first to 17 wins…
btw…you may be interested in this….
http://www.nationaltrustnames.org.uk/Map.aspx?name=TURNBULL&year=1998&altyear=1881&country=GB&type=name
check out the related links for ethinicity and frequency
Thanks. That link itself didn’t work, but I figured it out by pasting up to the “/”. I’m surprised at how so many Turnbulls moved north of the border.
Woah! I didn’t see this! That’s wonderful! Congratulations!
By the way, your people and my people (on my father’s side, anyway) come from around the same area. I don’t think the Sellars were a clan or anything, though. Just a bunch of book-pirate publishing lowlanders.
Ah! So that’s why
we’re both so fat and baldwe look so alike!Congrats! By the way, I think Narratoress sounds good.
Thanks, and you’re right. I’ll use that in future.