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Nixorbo
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Five-leaf clover, huh? Somebody hasn't watched Luck of the Fryrish in a while.
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Teral
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« Reply #12 on: 10-11-2005 17:53 »
« Last Edit on: 10-11-2005 17:53 »
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Originally posted by Dan1248: Genetics don't make family members all the same. Don't see where genetics is brought up in this thread, but okay... Two black people may have a white child if there is white blood from an ancestor. Blood, schmood. It's genes who carry traits. Realistically possible? Not in your lifetime. Long story short: skin color is not a recessive/dominating thing, but rather the result of 6 different alleles. Each allele code for either skin pigmentation or no pigmentation. A person with AABBCC would be very darkskinned (black), while a person with aabbcc would be very pale. In between you have all the other variations of AaBBcC, AAbbCC, AabbCc, etc giving varying degrees of color. None of the alleles are dominant, so if 2 black people (AABBCC) got a child, that child would be black too (AABBCC).
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Teral
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« Reply #13 on: 10-11-2005 17:56 »
« Last Edit on: 10-11-2005 17:56 »
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Sorry for the double-post, but this thread simply refuses to accept it all in one post. I think it hates me .... it's mutual.... I don't think Fry is Irish, but may have irish ancestors. And if Fry was Irish, I don't think it was intentional. How could it be unintentional? "Sorry for making you Irish son. Your mother and I didn't plan it that way, but us both being Irish our hands were tied."
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transgender nerd under canada
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Fry's family have quite clearly been American for quite some time... Yancy "Minuteman" Fry blasted commies in the American revolution, after all. So on his father's side at least, Fry is more likely to have WASP ancestry.
Fry's mother, on the other hand, is a passionate sportsfan. She listens to the game on the radio whilst Fry is being squeezed from between her thighs, and she plays golf in the sitting room. This suggests that her ancestry is most probably European, of some flavour or other. Now as to Irish, there's something not quite right with that. The golf, the red hair, they're Scottish icons, and the fact that she wears a skirt - that's the kicker. Scotsmen wear skirts all the time. They say it's "national dress" and that it's a "kilt", but really, the fact is that it's cheaper to become a drunken transvestite in Scotland than to take up a more constructive hobby, such as Water Polo.
Fry's familial ties to other countries are going to be pretty damn weak either way. He's an American, through and through. He's lazy, stupid, and just plain suggestible. How could he be anything else but a child of the U.S.A? I realise that not all Americans are like this. However, over here in England, Homer Simpson is pretty much the iconic arch-figure of modern American Man
Of course, since Fry lives in the future, it matters not which country he "comes from". He is, when you get down to it, just another Earthican.
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Dan1248
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Originally posted by Teral: How could it be unintentional?
"Sorry for making you Irish son. Your mother and I didn't plan it that way, but us both being Irish our hands were tied." I meant Matt Groening probably didn't make him Irish.
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Dan1248
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Fry, an Irish-American was born in 1974 I got it from a "reliable" source... Hey, even if it is from Wikipedia, lets just belive it anyways...
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