Monty by Jim Meddick for June 04, 2024

Good old Fred-boy Walton.

If Monty is an heir to the Linoleum fortune, he could mop up.

If that isn’t exciting, I don’t know what is.

Invents linoleum and still has time to procreate. What a guy. Respect.

actually I found out that I am a decedent of FR Eazin Rasainsky who invented toilet paper.

That’s a heritage you can be proud of. It has benefited mankind way more than linoleum.

The steps of the grand staircase in the Titanic were covered with the most expensive and exotic material of the day, linoleum.

Thomas Midgley Jr. invented the chemicals that almost destroyed the ozone layer and put lead into gasoline which caused massive problems. That would have been a funnier relative.

Cool, man, cool. Do you smoke it or chew it?

Why couldn’t Monty be the heir to the Ronco fortune?

There’s glory for you, Monty style.

Monty’s absolutely floored.

They’ve tagged me with Robert The Bruce, Lucille Ball, and Mary Todd Lincoln. Riiiight.

Was he one of John boy’s brothers? :)

The hero of Monty’s childhood!?

Seriously explains why he gets walk over so often.

I am underwhelmed. EB? Can I have a bite of your donut???? :)

And I’m a descendant of Johann Conrad Gilbert who is credited with drawing one of the first depictions of an Easter rabbit when he lived in Orwigsburg, PA, around 1800. A tiny drawing of a rabbit delivering a basket of colorful eggs.

My old mentor told me that when he was a kid in the late 1930s, one of his relatives let slip that a great uncle had been hung for stealing horses. My friend told all of his little friends, and they thought he was the coolest kid ever (this was the era of Hopalong Cassidy/Red Ryder/etc). When the story made it back to his mom, she was mortified.

Thus the noteworthiness of your family tree is highly dependent on your audience…

That is weird! I just looked up linoleum a few days ago.

I hear Fredrick Walton had a bit of a lead foot … he loved to floor it.

When he said “Walton” I immediately thot of Sam Walton, founder of Walmart. At one time (early 2000s, I think) 5 of the 10 richest people in America were Sam’s kids. So at first I thot there might be a real swerve in the plotline coming, but I guess not.

I’m descended from a long line of nobodies.

I’ll never know, I’m not giving my DNA out.