--- Mark or Travis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > My husband's name is Ron Hertz. His mom wanted to
> name him Richard,
> but his
> > Dad said, "No son of mine is going to be called
> Dick Hertz!" Get
> it?
> >
> >
>
> Ok, since Deb has posted that, I will post mine.
> Probably no-one will
> believe this but I swear it's true. There was a
> girl at the
> University of Northern Iowa in the 70s named Fonda
> Dicks.
This cracked me right up! We got a letter at work
from someone whose name is Follen Pickle! There are
two women at work with odd names - one's first name is
Summer (she's a Sagitarrius, though); the other's
is... Precious! (Yikes!) There's another woman in one
of the district offices whose name is Daphne Dingwall.
I have a whole bunch more of these somewhere - one of
my co-workers collects weird names, weird letters and
strange turns-of-phrase from amongst all the letters
we receive at work. Every now and then we go through
them, just to alleviate the stress. I told him he
should make a book of them and hope one day he will.
My married name is Frank, and my husband's first name
is Gert (which is German, and yes, it is the male form
of Gertrude, and means pretty much the same thing as
Gerard, Gerald, Gary, Garth or any of those names.)
Needless to say, he has a lot of trouble *explaining*
his name to people. They always assume his first name
is Frank, or they want to know if "Gert" is short for
something (like Gertude?) He once took a dizzy spell
and fainted on a streetcar, so they called an
ambulance and sent him to hospital. When I went to
pick him up at Emerg, they couldn't find him at first
- because they had registered him as Ms. Gertrude
Frank. Let me tell you, he don't look like no woman
to me!
Then, of course, there are the nicknames like
Frankenstein and so on (ha ha) and I've had people ask
me if I, by any chance, have a sister named Anne.
Which, as it happens, I do, but she's not a Frank.
And, of course, I can't resist, either. When I'm
calling my husband, sometimes I'll yell, "Yo! Gert!"
or I'll say, "Yes, he's Gert and he's rude - he's
GERTRUDE!" and so on.
Wheezing towards Wednesday...
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