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In
this month's COUSINS:
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WHAT'S
NEW
Happy birthday to me, I live in
a zoo, I look like a mo—
Oh, hi.
Didn’t see you sitting there.
For starters, the April
issue is out on time (Read this as “before the 15th of the
month”), and life is moving right along.
But then, Life has an alarming habit of doing just that, most
especially when you’re off doing other things.
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THIS
MONTH'S FEATURE: The children of Joseph PÉPIN and wife Marie-Louise
FRENCHE dit Laframboise.
Last month, we did a re-cap of the
children of II—Robert Pepin and his second wife Marie-Anne Delasse.
And as I started to gather together the info for the next set of
parents and kids – Jean and Robert’s younger sister Marie and her Élie-Breton
hubby – I stopped because it felt like I had done that before. A half hour was put to good use cutting and pasting, leading
to the discovery I had done Marie and Pierre -- in Vol. 2 No. 5 (May 2001)
Further investigation led to the discovery
that I had left out II--Robert PEPIN and Marie Anne DELASSE’s son Joseph
and his wife Marie-Louise.
Joseph
Pepin (1robert)(2robert), baptized 5 May 1717 at St-François, I.J., is
listed in the Tanguay as the 2nd child born to Robert PEPIN and second
wife Marie-Anne DELASSE. He
is the first to survived infancy
On
25 April 1746 at Pointe-Claire, Joseph married
Marie-Louise
FRENCHE dit LAFRAMBOISE, baptized 24 July 1725, daughter of André
LAFRAMBOISE and Marie-Louise BIGRAS
Together Joseph (1robert)(2robert)
and Marie-Louise FRENCHE dit LAFRAMBOISE (1andré) had 5 children.
1.
Marie-Amable PEPIN, baptized 6 Oct 1751; buried 21 Nov 1751 at
Ste-Geneviève, Montréal
2.
François PEPIN, baptized 28 Oct 1753; buried 9 July 1754
3.
Joseph-Marie PEPIN, baptized 23 May 1755
4.
Louis PEPIN, pbaptised 15 Feb 1757
5.
Pierre PEPIN, baptused 23 March 1759; married 10 June 1782, Mare
VAILLANCOURT (bap 1759)
If you can add/subtract/change any of this, send it on via email.
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COMIC
RELIEF
Got
this from a friend and it tickled my funny bone.
You
know the world is going to hell in a hand basket when:
-
the
best rapper is a white guy
-
the
best golfer is a black guy
-
the
Swiss hold the America's Cup
-
France
is accusing the US of arrogance
-
Germany
doesn't want to go to war.
Then
there’s this one (thanks Marcel)
In
true Monty Python fashion, here is the. . .
"AXIS OF EVIL WANNABEES"
by John Cleese.
Bitter
after being snubbed for membership in the "Axis of Evil", Libya,
China and Syria today announced that they had formed the "Axis of
Just as Evil", which they said would be more evil than that stupid
Iran-Iraq-North Korea axis President Bush warned of in his State of the
Union address.
Axis of Evil members, however, immediately dismissed the new Axis as
having, for starters, a really dumb name.
"Right. They are
just as evil . . . in their dreams!" declared North Korean leader Kim
Jong-il. "Everybody
knows we're the best evils . . . best at being evil . . . we're the
best."
Diplomats from Syria denied they were jealous over being excluded,
although they conceded they did ask if they could join the Axis of Evil.
"They told us it was full," said Syrian President Bashar
al-Assad. "An axis can't
have more than three countries", explained Iraqi President Saddam
Hussein. "This is not
my rule, it's tradition. In World War II you had Germany, Italy, and Japan in the evil
Axis. So, you can only have
three, and a secret handshake. Ours
is wickedly cool."
International reaction to Bush's Axis of Evil declaration was swift, as
within minutes, France surrendered. Elsewhere,
peer-conscious nations rushed to gain triumvirate status in what has
become a game of geopolitical
chairs. Cuba, Sudan and
Serbia announced that they had formed the "Axis of Somewhat
Evil", forcing Somalia to join with Uganda and Myanmar in the
"Axis of Occasionally Evil", while Bulgaria, Indonesia and
Russia established the "Axis of Not So Much Evil Really as Just
Generally Disagreeable".
With the criteria suddenly expanded and all the desirable clubs filling
up, Sierra Leone, El Salvador, and Rwanda applied to be called the
"Axis of Countries That Aren't the Worst But Certainly Won't Be Asked
to Host the Olympics".
Canada, Mexico and Australia formed the "Axis of Nations That Are
Actually Quite Nice But Secretly Have Some Nasty Thoughts About
America", while Scotland, New Zealand and Spain established the
"Axis of Countries That Want Sheep to Wear Lipstick".
"That's not a threat, really, just something we like to
do", said Scottish Executive First Minister Jack McConnell.
While wondering if the other nations of the world weren't perhaps making
fun of him, a cautious Bush granted approval for most axis, although he
rejected the establishment of the "Axis of Countries Whose Names End
in 'Guay", accusing one of its members of filing a false application.
Officials from Paraguay, Uruguay, and Chadguay denied the charges.
Israel, meanwhile, insisted it didn't want to join any Axis, but privately
world leaders said that's only because no one asked them.
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RAMBLINGS
FROM THE EDITOR
Last month, at least one of you thought that I was being careful in my
wording so as to not upset my family. In
the few short weeks since I sent out the March issue, I have come to the
conclusion that there are ever so many more people who feel as I do than
there are that don’t.
For me, this is a scary thing. But
I get ahead of myself – though I suppose that’s better than being beside
myself (or behind myself as I’ve perfected a recipe for home-made refried
beans).
Last month I was actually being more concerned about upsetting Official
Entities. I have since shrugged
that off as being either (a) paranoid or (b) conceited, and if They decide
that some tossed-off comment I make to relatives regarding the amazing
resemblance of the president of the US of A and the north end of a south
bound mule is enough to ban me from going back to the country I was born in
and I get “stuck”in Canada, well, then boo-hoo, beat me, whip me, hurt
me, make me write bad checks. I’ll
be willing to bet you some Texas bar-b-que that his own daddy has said worse
about him.
My 45th birthday is on the 8th of this month and I
simply cannot figure out where the time has gone to.
I don’t feel almost 45. I
can remember a time when 45 was really REALLY old.
Then again, it was about the same time that the year 2000 was really
REALLY far away. However, I
feel confidant that I now have better odds of getting really REALLY old as I
have not smoked a cigarette since 11:30pm January 17th 2003.
I’m proud of that.
During the summer of 1967, one of the neighbor kids showed us how mature he
was by lighting up a stolen cigarette.
He took a couple puffs. I
noticed he wasn’t inhaling and wasn’t the least bit shy about pointing
this out to him. He challenged
me to do better. I did.
Got caught with some of Daddy’s cigarettes the next summer and put
on 2 weeks restriction. I quit
for a whole year in 1970, but since then, I had been a Smoker.
Some times they were non-filtered, most of the time they had filters,
occasionally they were menthol, for about 4 years I rolled my own, and just
as I had acquired a taste for Players -- the Canadian ones, not the cheap
American imitations -- I decided it was time to quit and did.
The move from Edmonds to Burnaby got my blood pressure down to the high end
of normal without medication, giving me a great deal to think about sitting
on the front porch smoking my 2am cigarette.
Besides the fact that the best price I could find on smokes here was
$7.45 a pack and I’m on a fixed income, seeing as how I had a high normal
reading as a smoker, could I get me down into Normal normal if I didn’t
smoke. If I could I stood just
that much better chance of avoiding the strokes that run in my branch of the
family.
Thus on the evening of January 17th, while waiting for my friend
David to pick me up to go to Edmonton, I smoked my last cigarette.
David doesn’t smoke (anymore) and being in a car with a non-smoker
makes it easier to not smoke. Since
we were going someplace where we were going to indoors in a non-smoking
environment (and it was below freezing in Edmonton), I figured I could make
it through that first tough 72 hours much easier than here at home with a
smoke store two blocks a way and large wide front porch to sit and smoke on.
My friend Laurie, who is sharing her house with me, has never smoked,
and most of the folks I hang out with up here don’t smoke.
I stubbed that last smoke out at 11:30 and haven’t had one since.
My blood pressure . . . ?
To quote a Beatle’s song: Gettin’ better all the time.
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31March 2003, 11:59 P.M. PDST
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