****WARNING: This Post is NOT for serious genealogists.***<<Reading it may be harmful to your (mental) health!!>>
Okay kids, this Post is for all & sundry to include their oddities of things Mondo Slipp (or Mondo Merritt, Clark, Good, or Van Wart, Jones, Pennington … or … , well you get the idea, right?).
Please supply this Post with your sources for the other oddities of our shared family names and I’ll include them in this, or an upcoming Mondo Blog piece. (After all, what’s the point in doing this if it isn’t fun?) So, for the time being, I’ll start off with some Slipp stuff (perhaps someone wants to start a Mondo… Peters Category?)
For example, here’s a link to The Slipp Inn, a place for traveling souls, like a Blizzard ‘down under’, but in Kiwi land.
Or here’s one closer to home, from our cuz’n Larry Slipp, on The Truth About Travelling Turkeys . (Easy to access if you’ve already signed up, it seems.)
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How about just a simple graphic:
Designed & Copyrighted by Steven Slipp, printing by Paul Slipp
Crest designed by Steven Slipp, screenprinted by Paul Slipp, in 1987, for a family wedding/reunion. The image was also silk-screened on sweatshirts. The Wooden Clogs are an allusion to our Dutch roots, of family lore, with a star-shaped banana peel, an allusion to the family funny-bone. The overturned clog is a result of slipping on said peel. [groan]
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Signs of the Times
Here’s another graphic, a bar sign with the crest designed, carved & painted by my brother, Steven, long before we ever knew Loyalist Leonard had a tavern/inn on the River Saint John. Note the reference to Vander Schlippe on the banner. This was still an allusion to our Deutsch origins. This sign currently resides at brother Scott’s home.
designed & created by Steven Slipp circa 1970
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Slip Wrecks
The Wreck of the G.L.Slipp is an interesting piece.
George L. Slipp; 98 tons; Wood hull; Registred at Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada. Registration no. 107066.
The schooner, George L. Slipp, was on voyage from Hantsport, Nova Scotia, Canada to Boston, Massachusetts, United States. On the 18th October 1908, the George L. Slipp ran aground, off Gulliver Cove, near Digby Neck, Nova Scotia.
[I do believe this schooner was owned by first cousin (4x removed), of the same name (as the ship), a G.L. Slipp born 1848, died 1904, a merchant in Saint John, NB. He was grandson to Leonard the Loyalist (and son of William Slipp & Alice Slip).]
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Freudian Slippage
That being the instance where you say one thing when you mean a mother … er, . . . another!
Brother Barry's alter-ego's calling card (circa 1990)
How about some homographic use of ‘Slip’ (Freud’s analysis of Leonardo in error) … when phantasies become reality…
. . . Okay, granted, that’s kinda off the wall (not to mention ‘deep’). But keeping with that theme, off the wall (& Freud), there’s always a weirdo in the group (no pointing fingers, folks!). Know anyone who’s called their kid Freudian? I guess that would be another example of homographic!
Well, I was kidding about that, but here’s reference to some bawdy works, some of which would give Sigmund a run for his money, one of which is Freude N. Slipp’s Joy of the Limerick Sex Manual: Sex for Sophisticates. [ 1979. La Jolla, CA. Agora Press. 95. 162. d. Bawdy. 3181] {You’ll have to ‘Find‘ the reference} Don’t worry, there’s nothing here that would offend any purists. At least not on the web site. I expect the book itself might be a bit more randy though. Limericks usually are (but are Crumericks?).
Now for something completely different (yet still on theme); a link to Australian ex patriot Samuel Slipp’s writings about The Freudian mystique : Freud, women, and feminism
. . . and speaking of things Feminist . . .
Here’s a cultural piece, Unpacking Feminist Content in Lilly Martin Spencer’s “War Spirit at Home” by Naomi Slipp, a distant cousin who we don’t know, who perhaps we will one day. She critques this Civil War painting:
War Spirit At Home by Lily Martin Spencer 1866
Naomi Slipp is also helping to save a cemetery in Florence, Italy.
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Did someone say cemeteries?:
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Betty Damery has done a lot of work on this subject. She has many sites in New Brunswick, including the Merritt/Slipp Cemetery in Queenstown, and the Central Hampstead Cemetery, or just go to the home page that she and Cleadie Barnett developed. Lot of work, I’ll bet.
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Then there’s the CanadaGenWeb Cemetery Project, which should keep you busy for a while
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Or there’s the Commonwealth War Graves Commission that lists lots of Slipps.
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And finally (for the cemeteries) there’s also one for Leonard Leopold Slipp, of Sussex, NB, buried in Europe, after having been wounded at the Battle of the Somme during WWI. Perhaps we will hear more about this ancestor’s life from his grand nephew Len Slipp?
I’m still searching for the Slipp Cemetery (Lower Hampstead?) that I visited many years back. Is anyone familiar with this one? George Wm. Slipp told me about it when I was visiting him. One of these days I’ll get the photo I took of me laying prone in front of an unmarked (no pun intended) headstone.
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Bringing it back, closer to home, there’s always the Saint John River Society, who were likely happy to see the CBC do a Land & Sea episode on their beloved waterway. Check it out.
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And, finally…(still with me?) one of our List members, Rick Crume (or his poetic alias Crumerick ☻), has written a large number of articles for Family Tree Magazine. There is an index of his work for them online. And speaking of Rick Crume, through him (?) we have an interesting rapscallion of a cousin in John Hudson Pennington . I’ll let Rick inform you about some of ‘Cousin John’s’ antics someday, and the trail left behind him, someone who was always getting his name in newspapers, one time for a cattle investment firm (sounding somewhat like Kiefer Sutherland’s recent sting)
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So remember, when you find some weird stuff in your academic searches of things [surname here], don’t just toss it off as worthless, don’t hide it in the woodpile, but bring it out into the light and share it with your cousins.
Mondo Cousins … ya, that’s it!
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I enjoyed this post Marke. Nice to see your talent and sense of humor is being used for such a worthy project. Most entertaining and informative.
Think I am understanding your sense of humor! You are very good at programming I am envious.
It was handed down word of mouth that my fathers side Kitchen and Stickle
were Pennsylvania Dutch but I found out through research that they were
German. One never knows does one.
Thanks for the good words, Carol; John taught me everything I know!
Kitchen & Stickle sounds like an Amish Folk Duo
Our family thought we were Vander Schlippe for the longest time
You managed to “slipp” in a few good one liners!! “Good” one. You certainly have left your “Marke” !!
Dad’s ancestor’s always said they were Pennsylvania Deutsch or Dutch. We come from a long back ground of military lines so when I told them what I had found they were not happy. The lines of Germany changed over the centuries in particular Alsace-Lorraine where our Stickle or Stickel (original spelling) came from.
Your welcome Marke. I must go back to the posting notes then. I want to learn how to put the links behind the blue words. Thanks for all the great postings Marke. Lots of reading and good information.
Bye for now, Carol
PS, Website in progress now that I have learned how to post. A friend started it for me. I have to learn how to put pictures in with each person and so on. So work in progress.
As a person who spends his days agonizing over the little details associated with putting content onto the web, I found this post an insult to the work I did puting this website here in the first place.
Not because of the content which I did find somewhat amusing, but because of the garrish style used. When I questioned him about it, he showed a complete lack of understanding about what I was on about. I don’t know how else to put it. This post makes my blood boil and the fact that no-one else seems to care or at least that’s the impression he has been left with, makes me throw my hands in the air and ask myself why I bother.
If this is how Marke wants to treat this website, fine. Whatever.
Another thing. If you are going to make a really long post, with or without giant coloured letters, angle brackets, exclamation marks, stars and other special characters plus lots of photos, maybe it would be a good idea to use the little MORE button so that you do not completely monopolize the home page to the exclusion of all other posts which otherwise get pushed so far down the page that first time visitors are unlikely to get past.
John,
I agree with your comments and suggest that E-mail should be used for non-specific discussions. This Web-site should be perhaps used for exchange of textual data and to identify from whom picture data can be obtained.
At the same time I found Markes attachment comical.
Glen.
Thanks for your feedback, John. Good to have some dialgoue on the Posts. Sorry you’re so upset though. It certainly is a strong reaction you’ve had. The garishness was intentional; it’s called MONDO SLIPP, after all.
If you reflect back on my offline reply, you’ll see that what I said to you was:
“… it would seem your sense of aesthetics have been insulted. What would you do to make it appeal to your sense of style? Perhaps if there were more style options in WordPress I would’ve presented it differently, but it is quite limited that way. What can I say… sorry you didn’t like it. Why don’t you create a Post and set a standard for them?”
Thanks for the MORE button suggestion. I found it on the Kitchen Sink and have applied it to the Arthur Slipp Post.
Hi Marke;
What would I do?
I would allow all of the preset styles built into this WordPress site to work and not override them with childish restyling patterns. I understand you were trying to be funny, but in the future if you could restrain from using “funny style”, it would be much appreciated.
You said; “Perhaps if there were more style options in WordPress I would’ve presented it differently, but it is quite limited that way.”
I think less style options rather than more would be better for you. The idea of the Visual Editor is to make it easy for someone who doesn’t know any HTML to easily post to the site. It is not meant to change the style of the site. Sure, if you want to make a word or two green or red here and there because it makes sense to do so, I’m fine with that. But please do not change the entire post to be different from the rest of the site.
In particular I would ask that you do not dramatically increase the size of the text. It is common knowledge (although not everyone is aware of it) that typing large and/or bold letters in emails and on the web is akin to shouting. Please do not shout at us.
I accept your apology and wish to express my own misgivings about losing my temper over this issue. Obviously you pushed some buttons here, so please be aware that I may go off on you if you mess too much with my style.
We all take pride in our work, at least I hope we do, and I know that what we publish on the web represents both ourselves and our ancestors. To that end I hope we can all hold this site to a slightly higher standard than if it were simply our own.
Sorry again for losing my temper.
regards
John
Thanks for your continued feedback on Style, John. Being a designer, this is obviously an issue that is very important to you. I do agree that the design of the Posts is an aspect that needs to be considered, and I look forward to seeing what other people do as well. I will reply to some of your words (above) for the sake of finding some common ground.
You note: “It is common knowledge (although not everyone is aware of it) that typing large and/or bold letters in emails and on the web is akin to shouting.” I’VE ALWAYS THOUGHT IT WAS ONLY CAPS THAT INDICATED SHOUTING AND I DON’T GENERALLY USE THIS TECHNIQUE TO EMPHASIZE CONTENT. Bold, italics, & underline [not available in Comment] are usually employed to give some emphasis to particular portions of text. I *also* use asterisks (‘stars’ to some) to emphasize, on occasion, especially when writing across operating system platforms. I would agree that too much emphasis means nothing is emphasized! Exclamation marks I might use a bit too often as well, so I will give that ‘style’ point some consideration. (Or was it the use of symbols like ☼ that you find ‘offensive’?)
All that said, I’ve always gone with the adage, “Form Follows Function“, or Style Follows Content, so when doing this MONDO* post, I utilized the various styles available to me in the WordPress ‘Kitchen Sink‘. They are quite limited, as I noted earlier, but they are, as per your latest request in the Comment above, they are a part of “the preset styles built into this WordPress site“. I know you work in HTML, however I don’t … but I do work with what I’m given and these styles were all available to me on the site, in the pull down paragraph menu.†
So, as to the Style for Mondo Slipp: There have been many uses of MONDO in films, and elsewhere. One of the early users, that set the ‘garish’ style, was Mondo Cane, in 1962. And there are many other examples of this style of film that I won’t cite here. Suffice it to say, it is a style (albeit not one everyone likes, obviously).
You note: “please do not change the entire post to be different from the rest of the site.” I’m not aware of the particular style you speak of, John. Is there a good example you can direct us to? Perhaps some more specific guidelines so we know your thoughts on how to best to approach Posts on our site, at least stylistically?
I agree with you about simplicity; it can certainly be the better, safer way to go, especially in communication. I will give consideration to your comments for the next MONDO posting I do.
Meanwhile, I continue to look forward to seeing what you come up with, certainly style-wise but also content-wise, vis-à-vis a Post on a topic you consider worthwhile to our site.
Footnotes:
*mondo Slang. –adverb, very; extremely: “mondo cool”. –adjective, large; big: “a mondo history paper”.
Origin: “very much, extreme,” 1979, from It. mondo “world,” from “Mondo cane,” 1961 film, lit. “world for a dog” (Eng. title “A Dog’s Life”), depicting eccentric human behaviour; the word was abstracted from the original title and taken as an intensifier. From: Dictionary.com
† This is a video on how to use the Visual Editor PLUS the Kitchen Sink bar in WordPress 2.5. We are working in an upgraded version (2.9.1) so it is slightly different than what we have. However, it will be of assistance to those who might find WordPress a bit difficult to work in (as I do, being new to it). For old pro’s, it is likely somewhat basic basic.
Your kidding me right? Ha ha, very funny…
You seem to want to belabor this discussion. I do not.
Your last post on The Honourable Arthur Slipp serves nicely as the proper way to post on this site.
I feel you are trying to pick a fight with me and I don’t appreciate it.