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- kelpie0
I'm trying to visualise a pic of you next to him, but can't. Time to hunt out NT Mugz...
- kelpie0
I desperately wish I still had the clipping of my great great great uncle who was the tallest man in the world at the time and worked for PT Barnum's traveling circus in the states but lost it in one of my many flat moves. bugger, best talking point evar...
- OBBTKN0
I´ve got a great pile of photos of my father i´m restoring now...
I´m puting this online making a tribute for his great days as cyclist.
I hope to finish it before he dies ;))
and no... he´s not ill, free time i´ve got to do this is the problem
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The chin is the only resembling feature I think.
It is 5 generations removed after all.
Not sure I'm as rich as he looks either.
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My Dad was a competing cyclist in his day OBBTKN.
He still does 50 mile races and he's 64.
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i have a very similar photo of my g-grandfather. similar hat, moustache and suit. it's funny because 100 yrs ago people in europe were much more similar than they are now. you look at old photos and everybody seems similar to each other.
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- Concrete0
Looks like an interesting chap, moth.
I have Pocahontas in my family tree.
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I have Pocahontas in my family tree.
Concrete
(Aug 13 07, 03:02)Is that a kind of parrot?
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nice find mr moth. I want a pet horse.
- 23kon0
i was back at my folks house the other week and my old man was showing me loads of family photos he'd been gathering from relatives to compile a family tree.
some of the really really old photos are amazing just like the one youve posted, great stuff eh?
folk looking very regal and important :)
- kelpie0
haha, yeah that's cos they had to sit for an hour in the one position for the photo to take!
- chossy0
healthy all these old photos are so magnificent I love the fact that they are properly your blood but it seems so weird, great stuff moth :)
- OBBTKN0
moth... my father still goes for 200 km cycling turns... he´s 63
a great example for me on it
But i´m faster on drawing than cycling ;))
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- Jaline0
cool.
- 23kon0
On the cycling theme...
www.determinedmoth.org... [jpg]
moth
(Aug 13 07, 04:22)quality!!
- OBBTKN0
On the cycling theme...
www.determinedmoth.org... [jpg]
moth
(Aug 13 07, 04:22)Great!



