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FYI: This Justin McElroy is a respected Canadian journalist. He is not closely related to the Justin McElroy of MBMBAM though they do look very similar.
by StrictDabbler 4y ago
FYI: This Justin McElroy is a respected Canadian journalist.
He is not closely related to the Justin McElroy of MBMBAM though they do look very similar.
- Waterluvian 4y agoThank you. I was wondering this!!
- InCityDreams 4y agoWhy the italics on 'closely'?
- scythe 4y agoEveryone's related to everyone else if you go back far enough. Theodore and Franklin Roosevelt turned out to be sixth (-ish?) cousins.
- thfuran 4y agoOkay, but if someone asks if you have any relatives in town, you probably don't need to mention that technically everyone is related. You definitely don't need to also mention that the geese are also distant relatives.
- brian-armstrong 4y agoWelcome to Hacker News, enjoy your stay!
- Kibae 4y agoAre you closely related to Brian Armstrong, creator of Coinbase, by any chance?
- Maursault 4y agoNot just everyone... everything that ever lived has a common ancestor.
- StrictDabbler 4y agoMcElroy is a specific name that originated in two small geographical regions with tightly tied genetics and the two Justins bear a strong resemblance. Most Scotch-Irish people in Canada are related in some way because the initial colonizing wave was quite small. The podcasters are from Milwaukee which shares a border with Canada, is near Canada's most populous city, and was largely settled in that same small wave. Asserting that they're "no relation" would be quite a stretch.
- ElevenLathe 4y agoThe podcasters are from West Virginia.
- StrictDabbler 4y agoMy error.
- djmips 4y agoGetting out front of the pedants.
- dredmorbius 4y agoThey're faster than you are, and treat obstacles as malfunction and route around them.