Crazy Relativescurvylittlegoth writes, "My Grandma is crazy, crazy mad. As well as regularly putting curses on us all, she once fell asleep in the armchair on a sunny afternoon, Barley Wine in one hand, Peter Stuyveson in the other, only to wake up several hours later to a Darth Vader sounding fireman. She thought she was in HELL as the smoke and flames billowed round her..."
Are any of your relatives this loopy?
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chthonic, Thu 5 Jul 2007, 15:59)
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Crazy relative number 2I do have a lot of eccentric great uncles - it makes me feel like I'm Bertie Wooster.
You have already heard tell of Great Uncle Stanley, mystic and Glastonbury elder elsewhere on this board - that's my dad's side of the family. Not to be outdone, my mum's lot have come up with Great Uncle Edmund, fraudster and, according to one historian, "pornographic diarist."
This was back in the day when you could, apparently, knock up at a major corporation's doorstep, pretend you're from the Chinese Imperial court, get them to give you a big wad of cash in return for some imaginary business deal, and then bugger off to live as a hermit in Peking before anyone catches on.
He also claimed to have had affairs with, among others, British Prime Minister Lord Rosebury, an Ottoman princess, Oscar Wilde and the Empress Dowager Cixi of China. These have been fairly widely dismissed as a figment of his imagiation.
On Wikipedia:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_Edmund_Backhouse,_2nd_Baronet
(, Sat 7 Jul 2007, 20:41, Reply)
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