TURPIN - he was a right bastard

The Dark and Dirty Deeds of Dick

Friday, May 5

Family Pride

If genealogy websites are to be believed, before the Norman conquest, the Turpin family resided in the town of Turpin au Boas in France. After 1066, when William granted them lands in Dorset, they settled in Britain.

The family were armigers, bearing a family crest. You can purchase it online printed onto almost anything you might imagine...

Only In America, People. Only.

I think, having visited a number of online family-crest vendors now, that the arms above belong to the Irish/British Turpins, while the crest below belonged to the French branch of the family, but I am sure John could design something more appropriate. Who knows, in time you may be able to clothe your pets from this site too...

6 Comments:

Blogger Daphne said...

Yes, John was only saying to me yesterday that he feels he has a great future in T-shirt design for cats and dogs.
Was that a pig just flew past the window?

5:22 pm  
Blogger Archie Pullen said...

Cats, dogs, geckos, pythons...

5:26 pm  
Blogger John said...

next thing we'll be discussing what fillings Dick preferred in his sandwiches as he waited to rape the Rochester Mail.

5:48 pm  
Blogger Archie Pullen said...

Cheese and pickle, naturally, these being the days Before Pastrami.

6:16 pm  
Blogger John said...

That'll be 1733 BP then

7:02 pm  
Blogger Unknown said...

That's my crest

2:07 am  

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