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[fox]

the episode i just watched was 'privateers', the one where marian coatsworth-hay of marblehead wants to boycott the DAR reception on the grounds that abby's (and therefore zoey's) qualifying ancestor was a pirate.

what i want to know is, how come in all the times that obsessive nut sorkin talked about the DAR, he never made the obvious joke about the president and the other husbands being Sons-in-Law of the American Revolution?

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[jgesteve.livejournal.com]

Well as he's descended from the New Hampshire delegate to the Continental Congress and signer of the Declaration of Independence, I don't think the joke would work... Also, is the DAR completely matrilineal (i.e. does Dr. Josiah Bartlet not count for her in the DAR's eyes)?

[darthfox.livejournal.com]

well, it can't be entirely matrilineal, can it, because women weren't privateers and didn't fight the american revolution. so, you know, okay, but the opportunity for the sons-in-law joke is still there, and i'm surprised aaron never took it. :-)

[jgesteve.livejournal.com]

I meant matrilineal in that the ancestor had to be on the mothers' side all the way back... (i.e. had Abbey been disqualified would JB have qualified her as a DAR)