#36221
07/22/2001 12:54 PM
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I like to scan the wedding announcements page of the local paper on Sundays, looking for those serendipitous name combinations. One today made me laugh out loud:
CHRISTMAS-BELL
The engagement of Teresa Christmas to Daniel Bell, both of East Lansing, is announced. ..... She is the daughter of Carol and Wesley Christmas of DeWitt. ....
I *do* hope that they are planning a December wedding.
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#36222
07/22/2001 1:06 PM
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I love it, I love it!  And Wesley's kinda appropriate too... didn't he write some (albeit dour) Christmas tunes?
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#36223
07/22/2001 3:23 PM
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<groan> I do hope they don't present their first-born with the name Carolyn Noel.
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#36224
07/22/2001 8:15 PM
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#36225
07/23/2001 1:45 AM
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Welcome back, Aunt mav!
I think they should name their first child Jingle,
and the second, Ding-dong.
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#36226
07/23/2001 11:25 AM
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I once knew the Dressing family... their children were Blue Cheese and Turkey Ann. Yes, really. 
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#36227
07/23/2001 12:06 PM
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I knew someone whose last name was McDade. he was born on December 25, and his parents named him "Chris."
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#36228
07/23/2001 3:43 PM
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I've only seen something as silly as Blue Cheese in vanity plates.
the Selzter's had two cars, two vanity plates-- ALKA and BROMO
Alka selzer and Bromo selzer are US brands of antacids
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#36229
07/23/2001 6:54 PM
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One of the local alternative newspapers last week published a picture with no caption. (Two pictures, actually). They were so eloquent about the wisdom of the city bureaucrats that they needed no words. The first picture showed about half a block of a downtown street, no cars or traffic, a fireplug near the curb in the foreground. The second was a close-up of the area with the fireplug so you could see, if you hadn't noticed it in the other view, that there is a parking meter right alongside the fireplug.
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#36230
07/24/2001 10:15 AM
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I once knew the Dressing family... their children were Blue Cheese and Turkey Ann. Yes, really.
I suppose the chilluns should be grateful that Mom and Pop stopped short of "Ranch" and "1000 Islands" ... although they might be preferable, I suppose.
The idiot also known as Capfka ...
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#36231
07/24/2001 2:54 PM
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There was that old wretch James Hogg, who named his daughter Ima. Miss Ima (she never married, so she carried the name all her life) was apparently a really neat person and greatly beloved in her community.
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#36232
07/24/2001 6:45 PM
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in the Minneapolis phonebook you will find the name Rockets Galore -- and this is evidently not the same person as the recently deceased East Village character actor (Michael Morra).
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#36233
07/25/2001 1:54 AM
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...but I just had to ask:
What if Tony Santa married Greta Klaus?...and his brother, Rudolph, was best man?
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#36234
07/25/2001 2:16 AM
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in the Minneapolis phonebook you will find the name Rockets Galore --
Er--was this by any chance in The Yellow Pages, under
Escort Services?
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#36235
07/25/2001 4:38 AM
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I did know an English woman in Singapore (and this one is true) called Penny Strange who later married a local lad whose surname (I forget his first name) was Chin, and bravely went ahead calling herself Penny Strange Chin. I heard much later they'd got divorced but I don't think that was the reason.
Bingley
Bingley
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#36236
07/25/2001 5:00 AM
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In reply to:
in the Minneapolis phonebook you will find the name Rockets Galore --
Er--was this by any chance in The Yellow Pages, under
Escort Services?
well, that was a beauty of a slip... it was meant to be Rockets Redglare, of course (the answer on that one would be NO! -- and shame on you, jackie!!)
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#36237
07/25/2001 11:26 AM
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There *is a Cardinal Sin in the RC Church in the Philipines.
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#36238
07/25/2001 12:58 PM
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shame on you, jackie!!)I am UTTERLY unrepentant!
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#36239
07/25/2001 1:39 PM
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In the days when few houses had running water, there used to be a little house behind the house, sometimes called a backhouse. So Backhouse as a family name seemed risible. One got to be an Admiral, but he never became Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal.
. "Admiral Sir
Roger Backhouse was an old friend and had been Gunnery Officer in Dreadnought "
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#36240
07/25/2001 3:18 PM
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The Yellow Pages
One of my favourites from this wonderous tome is a cross-reference link: under the heading ENGINEERS it simply said
see Boring
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#36241
07/25/2001 5:26 PM
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enthusiast
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The telephone book in the ski resort town of Sun Valley, Idaho, has a listing for one of the town's many (two-months out of the year) celebrities, Adam West. If you look him up in the white pages, you are directed to check out Bruce Wayne. Under Bruce Wayne, you are directed to Law Enforcement in the yellow pages. Since the real law enforcement is in the blue pages, they had a little fun and completed the circle by sending you back to Adam West.  Now, if I could only find his real home phone number.
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#36242
07/25/2001 6:37 PM
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#36243
07/25/2001 7:06 PM
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That is only because the intersection of linguaphiles and engineers is nearly a null set. However, engineers are very interesting - to engineers, scientists, and quality managers.
:-)
Cheers,
Bryan
Cheers,
Bryan
You are only wretched and unworthy if you choose to be.
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#36244
07/25/2001 7:15 PM
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>the intersection of linguaphiles and engineers is nearly a null set a common enough conception, but not epistemologically grounded.... 
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#36245
07/25/2001 7:17 PM
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engineers are very interesting - to engineers, scientists, and quality managers.
I'm a member of a community chorus that does credible jobs on such light weight stuff as the Verdi Requiem the Bach B Minor Mass and similar stuff. At a weekend retreat we had one year, during the brief intro section where we all gave little pocket bios of ourselves I counted about 70% of the 30-40 people we had there had scientific, technical or engineering day jobs.
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#36246
07/25/2001 8:52 PM
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"stuff," Faldage?
harrumph® Engineers is engineers....
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#36247
07/25/2001 8:56 PM
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I went to school with the Beach (this surname obviously transliterated by some Ellis Island type) twins: Rocky and Sandy.
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#36248
07/26/2001 7:18 PM
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Odd street corners and connections in the U.S.: *The corner of Grinn and Barrett drives in West Chester, Ohio *Thisa Way leads to Thata Way and eventually to Bytha Way in Orange County, Calif. *Hickory and Dickory avenues, which intersect Dock Street in Harahan, La. *The corner of Ho and Hum roads in Carefree, Ariz. *Havateur Way in California. *Bland Street and Gore Road intersect in Pueblo, Colo. P.S. I love the Engineers > see Boring bit - I'll get a lot of mileage out of that one!
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#36249
07/26/2001 7:45 PM
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Full circle:
Merry Lane and Christmas Lane intersect not too far from where I live. Maybe Sparteye's newlyweds should consider moving there! It is now transitioned to a mostly Jewish neighborhood, but they still continue the Christmas decoration competition each year and folks from all over drive down the two streets to see the lights.
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#36250
07/28/2001 8:46 PM
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...such light weight stuff as the Verdi Requiem the Bach B Minor Mass... , ...people we had there had scientific, technical or engineering day jobs.The clarity of this *connection is quite so. Satin - What was that all about... am I glad I missed it?
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#36251
07/29/2001 12:43 AM
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Re: on such light weight stuff as the Verdi Requiem the Bach B Minor Mass
reminds me of a friend, chemist turn programer, who, when visiting NY was surprized at by the crowd he encountered at the Met on sunday morning. his comment "only in NY could an artsy-craftsy like this draw a such a crowd".
Somehow, I had never thought of the Metropolitan Museum of Art as artsy-craftsy.
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#36252
07/29/2001 4:25 PM
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hey Mav-Beatle fan?
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#36253
07/29/2001 5:39 PM
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Hi, Vixy - welcome to the board.
Submarine tastes aside, yes, the Beatles fit into my personal enormous club sandwich between Bach and Linkin Park. So much music out there...!
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#36255
08/02/2001 3:46 PM
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Why am I not surprised that she was dumb enough to fall for that? After all, her principal qualifications for the job were 1) a handsome pair of jugs, and 2) a willingness to show them off in a T-shirt. If she collects anything, it will be a miscarriage of justice. And one wonders in what currency she will be paying her lawyers. (Tut-tut -- nasty mind.)
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#36256
08/02/2001 4:06 PM
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A former Hooters waitress has sued the restaurant where she worked, saying she was promised a new Toyota for winning a beer sales contest. -- WO'N
Why am I not surprised that she was dumb enough to fall for that? -- BYb
I'm not sure that's quite fair, Bob. I think if my employer told me the same thing, I wouldn't even consider the possibility that they might be lying. Just because she works at a distasteful restaurant doesn't mean she deserves to have a fast one pulled on her by her bosses. I think we would have a different reaction to the story if she was a server at a high-end steak house, or even a diner.
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#36257
08/02/2001 4:07 PM
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Gotta disagree with you on this one, Byb. I'm not sticking up for Hooters waitresses or a society that encourages such exploitation, but if her story's true (parking lot, vehicle tax) I think she deserves compensation.
(not that I anything against my anastrophic buddy Yoda have)
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#36258
08/02/2001 7:02 PM
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You are out on a limb with this one bob--i have never seen a study that shows any relationship between large breasts and small minds.. but everyone presumes it exists.. there is still the attitude a woman can't be good looking and smart at the same time... and exceptions are "funny"-- (see humor thread, and movie "legally blonde")
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#36259
08/02/2001 7:31 PM
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...relationship between large breasts and small minds...
I need a witty riposte here, but I can't think of one! Apparently, there is some truth to the proposition....
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#36260
08/02/2001 8:01 PM
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I doubt very much that the intelligence of the girls who work at Hooters is substantially different from the girls who do not. It may be true that many pretty girls are given the impression that they need not try hard to acquire an education. Modelling is more highly regarded, but otherwise different only in the number of males attempting to grope them. And I believe that pretty girls' mothers not only do not encourage them to enter professions, they often discourage it out of jealousy (Admittedly based on a small number of observationa.)
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