His Royal Highness

[Mik]

[George K]

It's a "Chicago" kind of joke.

Berwyn is a suburb in the near west side of Chicago. Has always been the butt of jokes because of its high Bohemian and Polish population.

There is a "Hobby Day" parade which is populated by the ethnic residents.

But one ethnic holiday seems to have been forgotten, the Houby Day Festival, partly because the ethnic group it is associated with may have been pushed to the back-of-the-line of ethnic identity and activism.

Houby is the Czech/Slovak word for mushrooms, and it symbolizes a common experience for many cultures, the Fall Harvest.
Czechs and Slovaks came to Chicagoland in the middle of the 19th Century, consisting of people from the old Hapsburg Empire in Europe, a Roman Catholic community consisting of Czechs, Slovaks, Bohemians and Moravians.

The old joke is...

Q: How do you do a census in Berwyn?
A: Roll a quarter down Cermak Road.

[Renauda]

I thought this thread was going to be about an upcoming movie entitled The King’s TURP.

[George K]

@Renauda said in His Royal Highness:

TURP

One of my least-favorite operations - especially with a urologist who didn't know what TF he was doing.

[Copper]

@George-K said in His Royal Highness:

How does that even work?

Follow the diagonal

[George K]

@Copper said in His Royal Highness:

@George-K said in His Royal Highness:

How does that even work?

Follow the diagonal

Yeah, I've seen that chart before.

It only goes to the 5th cousin.

[jon-nyc]

@George-K said in His Royal Highness:

11th cousin?

How does that even work?

It would mean you share the same great^10 grandparents.

[Renauda]

@jon-nyc said in His Royal Highness:

@George-K said in His Royal Highness:

11th cousin?

How does that even work?

It would mean you share the same great^10 grandparents.

I did read somewhere that virtually everyone of English ancestry can trace back to Edward III through one of his sons. In particular his third son John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster (d. 1399) whose son became Henry IV “The Usurper”. Let’s just say that Duke John cut a wide swath with women regardless of social station and sowed extremely fertile seed.

[Klaus]

@Copper said in His Royal Highness:

@George-K said in His Royal Highness:

How does that even work?

Follow the diagonal

What if you are related to the same person in two different ways? For instance, an uncle can also be a dad.

[jon-nyc]

Usually you would refer to them as whichever is closest