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Dermot,
does it show the Culbert name???? I know we are some kind of
brave, good looking, honest, kind, humble, brilliant and well you
know what I mean. Damn it's hard to keep the image. 8*)
paddy
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-Dermot,
Thanks, I am not the least bit surprised. Hey didn't we go to
the hurling simi-finals to watch Antrim blow by their opponents.
Have a nice week-end I'll be doing the Black stuff well into
the wee hours I'm sure. Many a story will be told this week-end.
Them Colberts where the ones that left when the going got tough
and changed their names. My dear departed grandma called then
"The Sooners" never had a good word for them. Now that I think
about it she didn't have many good words about anybody 8*).
paddy
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| The Culbert name originated in the Newcastle area, Northeast England.
There were two branches of the family, one, the tall and honourable,
who were coal miners. The second, because of their squat appearance,
partiality to wearing skirts and heavy drinking became accepted amongst
the southern Scottish as harmless entertainment.......they were good
conversationalists. But, little did they know, that though harmless in
appearance, "these" Culberts were all the while, selling their secrets
to the English for beer money.
Rumour has it that one day in 1456, four of these rascally Culbert
brothers came upon a monkey, floating towards the shore on the debris
of a sunken French man-of-war. The monkey was immediately captured as
a French spy. (The French were reported to be ugly mothers, and in
those days very few people had ever actually seen one). If they could
wrench some information from him regarding the French forces they could
make themselves a pretty penny.
The monkey was imprisioned and repeatedly questioned, but to no avail,
he wouldn't speak. Nor would he eat, they tried everything, muffins,
haggis, snails, they even caught a few frogs, relieved them of their
legs, but the prisioner was unmoved. After more than a week, completely
frustrated and sick to death of this Frenchman grinning at them all the
time, the brothers took the only course of action that remained open to
them, they hung the monkey, as the traitorous French spy he was. Hence
the nickname "the monkey hangers".
There's nothing like a bit of history on a rainy afternoon, if you
could believe a word of it. I hope this was of some assistance, Paddy.
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