This is a pic of my g-grandmother, a member of the Delaware Nation...and no, it's not Chief Dan George in drag. 😉
Possibly a "princess" in times past, I remember her more for her killer peach cobbler.
paden cash, post: 442000, member: 20 wrote: In retrospect I'm not so sure a fellow with a such common name might not be better off relocating to some sparsely populated region in Kansas. 😉
Aw hell, just change your name to "Bubba Cash" that'll throw 'em off.
I thought you froze Norman in the icebox several years ago. Is there another one loose? 😮
Do a google images search of your first and last name only. If you appear in the first 200 options to view that is either very bad or very good. Alleged criminals tend to make the list more frequently than anyone else.
paden cash, post: 441743, member: 20 wrote: Choctaw Bingo is the State Song of Oklahoma. 😉
Then this must be the "unofficial' state song
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My Pa ran a pharmacy for 2 score years or more so via prescriptions he dealt with a lot of names, some humorous. One tale he told was of a man whose surname, beginning with ??P? I think, was tricky to spell but even trickier to pronounce, such that everyone pronounced it a certain wrong way. Anyway, so the story goes, over the years this patron of the pharmacy got so riled up with the mispronunciation that he eventually, by deed poll, officially changed the spelling of his surname to match the way people pronounced it.
paden cash, post: 442024, member: 20 wrote: This is a pic of my g-grandmother, a member of the Delaware Nation...and no, it's not Chief Dan George in drag. 😉
Possibly a "princess" in times past, I remember her more for her killer peach cobbler.
It appears somebody didn't want to pose for the picture.
"You WILL stand there and look happy....or else the switch is coming out!"
Strong people back then. More than likely she was making sure the little girl didn't run out into traffic.
imaudigger, post: 442082, member: 7286 wrote: It appears somebody didn't want to pose for the picture.
"You WILL stand there and look happy....or else the switch is coming out!"
Strong people back then. More than likely she was making sure the little girl didn't run out into traffic.
Good eye. That was my sister's arm...and yeah she was kinda squirrely. We were all picnicking on top of Mt. Scott down in Comanche County. I'm actually in the pic also, but as per my agreement with the Federal Witness Security Program I cropped myself out.
Tom Poiker, a geographer and cartographer who invented the TIN data structure and co-created the Douglas-Poiker generalization algorithm, changed his surname from Peuker.
One local family chose to further mutilate the pronunciation of the surname great-grandpa brought with him from Mexico when he hired on as a laborer on the railroad. Most families named Ybarra pronounce it either Ee-bar-uh or i (short i sound)-bar-uh. HIs coworkers kept calling him Wye-bear-uh so he decided to abandon the old pronunciation and ran with Wye-bear-uh.
The category of names I have always enjoyed attempting to pronounce are those that resemble the spelling of Mister Mxyzptlk, the anti-hero in Superman comics.
Then there is Hyacinth Bucket who insists her last name is pronounced boo-kay.
Holy Cow, post: 442093, member: 50 wrote: One local family chose to further mutilate the pronunciation of the surname great-grandpa brought with him from Mexico when he hired on as a laborer on the railroad. Most families named Ybarra pronounce it either Ee-bar-uh or i (short i sound)-bar-uh. HIs coworkers kept calling him Wye-bear-uh so he decided to abandon the old pronunciation and ran with Wye-bear-uh.
The category of names I have always enjoyed attempting to pronounce are those that resemble the spelling of Mister Mxyzptlk, the anti-hero in Superman comics.
Then there is Hyacinth Bucket who insists her last name is pronounced boo-kay.
Had a young lady that worked for me for a while with the last name of Ibarra.
Also prepared some R/W docs once with a property owner named Randall Old-Woman-With-Gun. Title company almost blew a 40 amp fuse over that one because the chain of title actually had the last name(Old-Woman-With-Gun) in Native Kiowa....it was at least as long as supercalifragilisticexpialidocious. Randall had his name legally changed when he joined the Marines. I asked him why he didn't pick "Smith". He didn't think it was as funny as I did...;)
paden cash, post: 442000, member: 20 wrote: My whole life has been an "identity" crisis....
I actually share (exact) names with a felon convicted of violence toward a LEO (it makes traffic stops uncomfortable for me), a State Representative, a guy that won't pay his credit card bills...and a dead guy. I was once mailed (to MY address) a copy of an arrest warrant for one of them. That was an interesting phone call to the sheriff's office.
My grandfather had a similar problem to your sharing a name with a gent that didn't pay his bills. Hard to believe that their would be two Edward Coopers in the Nebraska Sandhills in the 1910s. My grandfather settled on changing his name to Kooper to avoid anyone thinking he was a deadbeat. Later when my great grandfather Charles Cooper died, my grandfather ended up paying for the burial. None of his siblings was interested in contributing to the burial expenses, so my great grandfather Charles Cooper's headstone reads, "Charles Francis Kooper". 🙂
Maybe that's what happened to Leroy Collings son, Charles, who made the switch to become Collins. The younger generations of this local family seem to be amazed to learn the family name wasn't Collins a hundred years ago. They probably have wondered how it is that some people named Collings are buried next to their Collins ancestors in a small rural cemetery.
