On 04/21/11 10:03, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: > On Thursday 21 April 2011 02:25 PM, Udhay Shankar N wrote: >>>>>> How come you sign ABS rather than ASP? >>>> >>>> 'coz I'm Alaric Blagrave Snell-Pym :-) >> Could you put me up for the Drones Club, old bean? > > Alaric was the Duke of Dunstable - so maybe the Senior Conservatives? >
Was he? I didn't know that! Legend has it, my mother was looking in a book of names and found Alaric, and thought "Hmmm, an odd name. People with odd names always either do really well or really badly in life... let's take a gamble." And so began my career of being SLIGHTLY ODD. Blagrave and Snell were inherited from my father: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lionel_Snell (who, despite not having been around much from when I was four onwards, has also set me up well to see mainstream society from the perspective of an outsider!) When I got married, we decided to hyphenate our names together, as the Pym line tends to produce few sons so the surname was dying out - but as a good computer scientist, I couldn't pass the whole double-barreled thing onto my children, as if everyone did that we'd have 1024-word surnames in ten generations. So our first daughter was Jean Rose Pym, and our second was Mary Kusha Snell. Despite the exotic-sounding name, my family is quite boringly British - a mix of Irish, Scottish, English, and (a few generations back) French and German. ABS -- Alaric Snell-Pym http://www.snell-pym.org.uk/alaric/
