I believe it stays the same until you post in the topic, then the topic updates it. Additionally, it updates at end of day I think. But not sure.
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I believe it stays the same until you post in the topic, then the topic updates it. Additionally, it updates at end of day I think. But not sure.
I take that back. I see you and I have been short changed!!!
Most of us have not been updated all month, Asis. I think it's probably a glitch of some sort. It'll work out eventually, I'm sure.
Well, there is a restaurant over on Divisadero (In SF) its a Thai restaurant called "Phuket"
Hah! You'd like to think so, Rowyn and Absom, wouldn't you? Nope, we gots to have junior members to pick on and bring us drinks.
Say, speaking of strange names, now, I went to school with a guy named Tim Hamburger. But it gets better: his older sister in the class ahead of us was named Patty!!
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OK, I chime in with strange names.
Obviously there's my own real name.
But a couple folks I had workin' for me were:
Dang, Bich
And
Phouc Huu
I had to be very careful when I paged them on the intercom system.
I passed a shop today with a huge black sign on the front of the building: "Martha's Cermaics".
Ho! Ho! Ho! I see I've just been updated to N0.32 and become a senior.
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Ery, her parents should have been locked up, that is cruel and unusual punishment.
Hooray for the Ravens! I don't even like football. but I enjoyed this game.
X-RAY time!
Art Modell wins a Super Bowl. Ray Lewis is MVP. No justice........
Here's something wild I found out tonight- one of my students is a neigbor of the guy who won the Publisher's Clearing House money!
Ten minutes from here!
(hmm..maybe I shoulda entered.)
Hi guys. Regarding last names ? mine sounds like a fur coat with sand on it ? sort of. Interestingly, it sounds somewhat different when pronouncing it while in a drunken stupor or driving a nail into your finger.
I had a great great aunt by the name of Missouri Jane Carey. I always imagined she must have been an uppity sort with a wonderful name like that. My great great great grandpa was Napoleon Bonaparte Livingston. The family calls him Bony. When he was just 13, he ran away to be a drummer boy in the Union Army during the Civil War.
Rowyn, your family names are wonderfully different. Does your family come from a small town in France? ;-) By the way, it?s nice to see you in here ? as well as Absom and B the One and bunches of others.
More name games:
I once knew Joanne Jones. My mother said she was born Joan, but changed it to Joanne when she married.
I also knew a lady named Rose who married a man named Rose. She stayed Rose Rose.
Or the man who worked at a local hospital, Walter Walters. Why do people do that to their children, anyway?
BMat, Merle - About the Ravens
It is gray and overcast in Ohio - we wanted the Giants to win. Art Modell is considered a four-letter word in many places around here. Sorry, B, gotta disagree with you this time and agree with Merle instead.
Oh, yeah, for you readers. If you like political intrigue and deep Washington D.C. stuff, check out Rock, Paper, Scissors by Steve Samuel. It kept me anxious the whole way through. It's excellent!
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Jandy
Being from NE Ohio I gotta agree with Jandy and Merle. I don't watch football but I know alot of people around here weren't to happy with the outcome of the Super Bowl.
OK, a few funny names I've heard:
Mom had a guy work for her named Harry Leggs. No kidding.
My brother worked with a guy named Harry Epp. Say it to yourself.
Tan, Jandy, Merle:
Well that's where my total lack of interest in football ordinarily comes in, I have no idea of the past history of what was going on with the players or people running the thing (except I do remember one of the players was tried for murder- right?). Anyway, I watched an isolated game, without past knowledge of the politics or whatever it would be called, and I liked the surround cameras showing plays I was convinced had been miscalled. It was exciting to see 3 touchdowns in less than a minute. I'm glad that Baltimore is pleased- although to my mind it is not a game but a bunch of highly paid professionals doing their job. Even so looking at the game as an isolated event, I enjoyed it!
there's a dutch anthropologist whose last name is dikshit.
bet there aren't too many of those in the phone book.
Crash, agree with you wholeheartedly. I don't like greedy owners moving their teams around like that. Nothing more than carpetbaggers, IMO.
More funny names: I believe, though I've never verified, that the inventer of the flush toilet was Thomas Crapper. However, there's no truth to the rumor that the inventer of the brasiere was a man named Otto Tittsling.
I hope someone can answer this:
Some of the time when I post a reply here I can read the whole topic in the area below the message screen, without html apparently, underneath- that is very useful when I want to make sure I'm responding correctly. But other times, the topic is not there. Is there a way to make sure it is there everytime?
And back to football, as I said above Professional football is not a game! It is a business, and a business wants to make as much money as it can. I think that if one has experienced one's own football team skulking off in the middle of the night- which is exactly what happened with the Baltimore Colts, it is a true eye-opener.
Aaahhh! What can I say? I'm a dyed in the wool Raiders fan.
Merle, I don't know where you're from, but I used to date a guy named Harry Legg. Perhaps there are a bunch of parents out there with warped senses of humor.
B ? you go girl! As for me, I didn?t watch the Super Bowl. Instead, I opted to go see the movie ?Shadow of the Vampire?. There was hardly anyone there. Great flick!
There are plenty of Lipschitz in the Mid West. I have also heard of Dumfarts. Wasn?t it a rear admiral that operated on Jimmy Carter?s hemorrhoid back when he was in office? When my sister went to Europe she brought back fine gifts for the family ? except for me. She bought me a key chain that had ?Gut fahrt? (Good driving or traveling). She said she thought of me when she saw it.
Jandy I have to agree with you. I refuse to root for any team that has left its home city. There was no reason for Modell to move the team from Clevland. He had a great fan base and was making a nice little profit.
I was dissatisfied with last years victors, the Rams (Moved from LA) and this years, the Ravens (moved from Cleavland to Baltimore).
The people of Balitmore should know better, after all they lost the Colts to Indianapolis in the 1970's
I saw a documentary on plumbing (Go History Channel!) that Thomas Crapper didnt invent the flush toilet, it had been around for many years, but he first sold the version we all know and hate to clean.
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Once while I was at a cemetery visiting my Grandmothers grave I seen a large headstone. I went over to check it out and the last of the man was Bastard. http://www.hostboard.com/ubb/wink.gif
Hostboard for Sale? What?! Does that mean we may have to move again? *cringe*
Bmat, Hostbopard ahs been for sale for a couple of months now. (shrugs)
I choose to follow College Sports more so then professional sports. 1) it is fun to watch the young men and women grow and develop their skills 2) the players are paid significantly less and most are playing because they love the game and because they are receiving an education. Mind you, I am well aware that the top players in the country are banking on recieivng millions later and many are making money on the side but that is a small percentage of the players 3) The intensity of the game is amazing. 4) The rivalries are real (I graduated from Michigan State University. You don't think I am loving the fact theat MSU's mens basketball squad has been pounding the crud out of UM for the last three years?) 5) I can count on the team being there every year. The players change but I know that the MSU Spartans are going to be in East Lansing 50 years from now.
The Professional game has forgotten the fans. The very notion that some one like Art Modell is seen as a hero in Baltimore right now disgusts me. It was his choice to move his team, no doubt about that, but that does not mean I have to support someone who is willing to ignore all the support and money that the fans in Clevland gave him.
The Raiders move makes more sense, as does the Rams. The people in LA will only support a team that is in contention for the Championship every year. I used to got o the Clippers games to watch the Celtics play, and there would be more Celtics fans in attendence then Clipper fans. Same for the football teams. If the city will not support a team, even when they go through a period of time when they suck, then moving makes some sense to me. I don't like it, but at least it makes sense.
OK, so I am a sports fanatic with a weeeeee bit too much time on my hands. (grins)
Needless to say, the past two Super Bowls have been non events for me. Considering the fact that the ratings in all professional sporting events have been down, as are ticket sales, I would say that I am not the only one to feel this way.
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I just remembered another name that my husband and I found in the Portland OR phonebook about 18 years ago: Penelope Poopstain. And in college there was an oriental (I assume) in the phone book called Whee Num Kok.
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First, I don't watch sports overly much, but always root for the Cleveland teams. The only time I ever turn on the Superbowl is to see the commercials. Prof, the mayor of Baltimore did acknowledge Cleveland when the Browns became the Ravens. I gave him some good points for that. He referred to that "overnight skulk" to Indianapolis the Colts had done and apologized to Cleveland. Clevelanders have resentment against Modell rather than Baltimore.
Names - the obstectrics doctor named Dr. Payne (I'm not sure I would have wanted him in my delivery room. And when it came to the nursing staff, he lived up to his name.) Or my brother's foot doctor, Ben Suffrin.
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Jandy
I cut a birth announcement out of the local newspaper about 15 years ago and kept it in a scrapbook (along with a lot of other usless clippings) until summer of last year when said scrapbook was ruined in a flood.
I have no idea who the child or family was...in fact I can't even recall the child's surname...I just kept it because I thought it was one of the most amusing names I had ever seen.
Iguana Unique
Now, THAT is cruel and unusual punishment.
Also, my sister had a friend in college, named Kitty Lamb.
I guess we like animal names down south...lol!
Also, being a former employee of a vile and god-forsaken major telecommunications company (noooooo...I'm not bitter), I had access to directory assistance files across the country.
My co-workers and I spent many nights passing the time by looking up listings nationwide.
Off the top of my head, I can remember:
Barney and Betty Rubble in Florida
Ken and Brenda Starr in Virginia
Prince Charming in California
Rockett Squirrel in South Carolina
Elmer Fudd in Louisianna
Cinderella Liberty...can't remember where
Numerous Fred Flintstones, Donald Ducks, Wile E. Coyotes and other assorted cartoon character names, and the ultimate in aviation-Hell and Purgatory Airport.
Also, a doctor with a hysterical name, but I'm not sure I can print it here, so just ask me to gram it...hehe.
Maybe Cybersites will pick up Hostboard... http://www.hostboard.com/ubb/smile.gif
Then there is an Oracle DBA whose name was "Kevan Contractor" who was, of course, a contract DBA (Kevan is the closest I remember of his first name, it was anglicanized).
Regarding names in the phone book, the phone company doesn't really prevent you from listing yourself by any name. I remember a San Francisco columnist (Herb Caen) reporting that there was a listing under the "L's":
Ladyhoo, Yoda
Sure enough, there it was in the San Francisco phone book. Turned out to belong to a private nurse who didn't want to pay for the unlisted number service.
No pun in this name. It just struck me as funny when I was growing up. We had a widowed neighbor named Azora Dutt. She developed a crush on my Dad, who couldn't stand her. At least once a week she would come up with some domestic disaster in need of immediate repair. My Dad would find a million excuses and finally my Mom, with a grin, would urge him to be a good samaritan.
Well, it has been a good few months for carpetbaggers.
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To answer your question...My family is from France on both my mother's and my father's sides. BUT, my French ancestors migrated to Canada (Province of Quebec) in the early 1600's. Funny how some families hang on to old names!
I don't know if anyone else mentioned this here but Gordon R. Dickson passed away a couple days ago. :-(