Old photos of my Dad are labeled ??Buddy.? Met my Great Uncle for the first time, I was about 8, he said you look just like Buddy did! Buddy?, who??s Buddy? I only ever heard other adults call my Dad Charlie or Chuck before that.
Karoly is Charles in Hungarian.
Uncle Otto was my Grandma??s little brother. Otto Traber, named after his Grandfather, Otto Thielig.
@dougie those of us that don??t have trouble in that, AHEM, area don??t need stupid vehicles to try to make up for it.
I guess that's why I'm never worried about driving a Kia Soul.
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I'm still pissed it didn't come with the hamster costume.
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Dammit.
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Knew a fellow for several years whose name was Richard Long but went by Dick.?ÿ The listing for his number in the phone book was rather entertaining.
During that same time period, there was a listing in the same phone book for a husband and wife who had the same first names as my then wife and myself.?ÿ Their surname was Screws.
And then there was Sandy Fox, a girl in my senior class.
Does she?, we all wanted to know.
The Appalachian mountains have some interesting very old school names for folks.?ÿ My fiddle teacher and his wife grew up deep in the mountains across the hollow from each other and got married.?ÿ Their names were Jewel and Pearl.
Sandy Hastings married Ted Gum and became Sandy Gum.?ÿ That is disgusting.
Hogg Mansion
Boss Hogg's? WOW!
When I was quite young our church members included Jewel and Jewell.?ÿ Male and female, in that order.
We had some very uncommon names among the women in the community.?ÿ Dessie, Maudie, Ethel, Marcella, Bertha, Ima, Minnie, Eloise, Fleeta, Iva, Eva, Zulah, Zelma, Hazel, Flossie, Ferrol, Myrtle, Wilma, Rhoda, Dicey, Cleva, Cleo, Othel, Ula, Freda, Nita, Alma, Elma, Emma, Josie, Nettie, Alta, Alma, Nina, Mabel, Genevieve, Merle, Beulah, Violet, Ora Lee, Maxine, Elsie, Lillie, Gladys, Jesse, Earlene, Sybil, Sylvia, Naomi, Lucille (not Lucy).
No one was naming newborn girls with those names in the 1940's to 1980's.?ÿ Some young people have been rediscovering some of those names listed above as I know a Marcella who goes by Marcie and Josie, Genevieve and Lillie.
Saw an obituary the other day for the daughter of a fellow I know named Wayne.?ÿ Her name was Waynetta.
Over half of those names seem quite normal to me, as I've known of women named Maude, Ethel, Marcella, Bertha, Minnie, Eloise, Zelma, Hazel, Flossie, Myrtle, Wilma, Rhoda, Cleva, and Cleo.
Add other less common names that appear in my genealogy files: Adelaide, Artimisia, Berdene, Berlee, Blanche, Cora, Coy, sisters Elo and Ilo, Ermadene, Hallie, Hattie, Larissa, Leona, Lorena, Marietta, Marilee, Mildred, Orelia, Phebe, Philomela, Ressie, Sofronia, Theodocia, Vesta, Violet, Wretha, Wynema, and Zola
And then there are the recent generation names that get quite inventive with spelling.
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Anyway whenever the Mustang is fired up I think, ??yep Little Richard Syndrome,? he??s compensating for a deficiency somewhere else)
On the East side of the Continent we have these..... ?????ÿ
Dick is really Richard who has spent 4 years in the 5th grade.......
@flga-2-2 I've posted this picture before but it seems to fit with your topic.
Andy
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Some of you were discussing the auto-sensor in another thread, but this reminded me of something I saw the other day. I was reading a pictorial article about the top tv shows of the seventies, when they got to a particular show that was named for the leading man whose first name is the same as a term for the male appendage, it was the ??D*** Van Dyke Show? it was also spelled that way when referring to him. I was also wondering why only Dick was apparently found to be offensive when Dyke is right there too, maybe the author wasn??t concerned with offending lesbians.
??D*** Van Dyke Show? it was also spelled that way when referring to him. I was also wondering why only Dick was apparently found to be offensive when Dyke is right there too,
Yea, yet Dick was "Rob", go figure. I don't know how to communicate with anyone anymore and gave up. I just smile at everybody and keep my mouth shut. (and at my age that's hard to do ????)
Perhaps if he had been Dyck Van Dike.
Have watched too many old Perry Mason shows where the word "suspicious"?ÿ or "suspicion" is missing four letters in the middle and replaced with?ÿ Nathans.?ÿ The first two letters are fine, the next four are Nathans, then the remainder is fine.?ÿ Takes a few extra seconds to grasp what the captioning is trying to tell us.?ÿ Will be watching Chicago Fire sometime soon and will see the phrase, "*IRE TR***" to describe their big red vehicle.
I've become quite adept at reading the captioning rather than to understand the mumbling, 200 words per second, audio that attempts to cram 43 minutes of dialogue into 21 minutes of air time.?ÿ Average shot length is 2.48 seconds.
BTW, for those unfamiliar with Nathans.?ÿ My first semester computer professor explained the connection to Mr. Hale who regretted having but one asterisk for his country.
My Grandmother born in 1901 was named Bertha. My other Grandmother born in 1905 was named Inez.
My Mother was Guyneith, the anglicized version of Gwwd (Gwyned). Her friends called her Bobbie...
A Missourian, eh??ÿ Fine people, those Missourians.?ÿ My father's father was born, raised and died a Missourian.?ÿ Stubborn as the mules they are famous for.
