> -----Original Message-----
> From: Julia Thompson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, May 02, 2002 6:48 PM
> To: Brin-L
> Subject: Re: And here we go again.
>
> OK, not much got done with my *first* name (although there's
> some potential there), but there's nothing quite like being
> the human rope in a game of tug-of-war where the two
> opponents are yelling at each other, "Leggo my Deggo!"
Will you forgive me if I chuckle jsut a tiny bit?
(ObTang: everytime I think about Eggos, I remember back to the giant
box.. the box of 144 that an ex-gf and I bought together and never ate.
There is sat, a giant breakfast-food brick in the freezer for a year,
until we broke up... when it became a source of much yelling and
shouting. :D)
> And then, much later in life, there was the way my middle
> name got truncated on my student ID at college. My
> ex-boyfriend's family was calling me "Rando" from the moment
> they heard about it until they moved to California, and even
> then, one of them brought it up the time I went out there to
> visit them. But that was just funny and not hurtful, so it
> probably doesn't count on this thread.
At least you've only got ONE middle name.. no one understood why I was
nearly-psychotic about not telling people my middle name, until they
find out that all three of them are wierd [0]
-j-
[0] that's what I get for having a mother into geneology - I'm named
after all sorts of dead people
