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scottobearweird recent set of keywords to connect to my homepage blog- "feet and blisters, web" brings my page up first on av.com... I wish I could slap java on my lj page, so I could track keywords here, too.
Alton Brown has a fresh rant.
How mortifying! I know a lot of absent-minded folks...I'd hate to see that sort of thing happen to them. I wonder how my boss or my sweetie would deal with that sort of situation. Both straight-arrows but have little tolerance for rude or stupid people. The way they treated him probably cost the company a small mint in plugs and store usage fees.
Not cool that he had a dog in the car on an extended shopping trip, though. (I don't know the whole story there...maybe it was a safe environment).
Thinking back on the Newton name post last week, and![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
cath555's "With a C, not With a K" post and it's got me thinking...
I've had people confuse the name "Scott" with Todd, Scout, Bob, and of all things, Gus. When I was a kid, I had a phase when I wanted to spell it Skot. (an economy of letters, and looks keen in a runic sort of font. I held a belief for a while that the letters C and Q didn't serve much purpose, unless paired with the letters H or U repsectively. I wanted to rework CH into a new single letter, and replace QU with KW where needed, and drop Q entirely. I was a weird kid.) That phase has mostly passed, as Scotto works fine for me these days.
My last name is a bugaboo for all sorts of people. It's two words, the first one all lower case. "von Berg". Bad computer databases have a *lot* of trouble with that. They either want to combine them, and caps the von- "Vonberg", chop off the data after the space - "Von", or mix up the data so that one of the words is the first name. I can't tell you how much junk mail comes addressed to "Mr Berg", Dear Von! You need your grout cleaned! (or whatever). I often wonder if people with hyphenated names have the same trouble, but the one person I know that is hypenated hasn't really had to deal with it that much. Not the worst of it, back when I filled out stuff including a full name, I've gotten mail addressed to "Dear Mister Third", too.
I wonder if it's a common occurance. There are so many names that can be spelled a few different ways, or unusual ethnic variants. Erik/Eric, or Lori/Laurie, etc. I'd love to see how people have hosed the names of others, but I know "real life" names are tricky for a lot of people on LJ, even just first names. Perhaps there's a way to do it more anonymously, but a way to phrase a question about it.
Alton Brown has a fresh rant.
How mortifying! I know a lot of absent-minded folks...I'd hate to see that sort of thing happen to them. I wonder how my boss or my sweetie would deal with that sort of situation. Both straight-arrows but have little tolerance for rude or stupid people. The way they treated him probably cost the company a small mint in plugs and store usage fees.
Not cool that he had a dog in the car on an extended shopping trip, though. (I don't know the whole story there...maybe it was a safe environment).
Thinking back on the Newton name post last week, and
cath555's "With a C, not With a K" post and it's got me thinking...I've had people confuse the name "Scott" with Todd, Scout, Bob, and of all things, Gus. When I was a kid, I had a phase when I wanted to spell it Skot. (an economy of letters, and looks keen in a runic sort of font. I held a belief for a while that the letters C and Q didn't serve much purpose, unless paired with the letters H or U repsectively. I wanted to rework CH into a new single letter, and replace QU with KW where needed, and drop Q entirely. I was a weird kid.) That phase has mostly passed, as Scotto works fine for me these days.
My last name is a bugaboo for all sorts of people. It's two words, the first one all lower case. "von Berg". Bad computer databases have a *lot* of trouble with that. They either want to combine them, and caps the von- "Vonberg", chop off the data after the space - "Von", or mix up the data so that one of the words is the first name. I can't tell you how much junk mail comes addressed to "Mr Berg", Dear Von! You need your grout cleaned! (or whatever). I often wonder if people with hyphenated names have the same trouble, but the one person I know that is hypenated hasn't really had to deal with it that much. Not the worst of it, back when I filled out stuff including a full name, I've gotten mail addressed to "Dear Mister Third", too.
I wonder if it's a common occurance. There are so many names that can be spelled a few different ways, or unusual ethnic variants. Erik/Eric, or Lori/Laurie, etc. I'd love to see how people have hosed the names of others, but I know "real life" names are tricky for a lot of people on LJ, even just first names. Perhaps there's a way to do it more anonymously, but a way to phrase a question about it.
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Date: 2002-03-12 03:23 pm (UTC)Re:
Date: 2002-03-12 03:24 pm (UTC)JoeW! sounds like a fun interjection. :)
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Date: 2002-03-12 03:28 pm (UTC)people mess with my last name, too- I've recieved mail addressing me as Ms. Lush, Ms. Lust, Ms. Luz, Ms. Lutz, Ms. Lux, and Ms. Lusic. that last one may be my own fault- i have to learn how to write those dasterdly k's more clearly.
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Date: 2002-03-12 03:32 pm (UTC)Ms. Lux! Miss Light... very neat ideas for aliases... but I fear MsLust would get some naughty IMs.
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Date: 2002-03-12 04:02 pm (UTC)So which letter of the alphabet matches YOUR personality, huh? (http://www.selectsmart.com/FREE/select.php?client=joyous_alphabet)
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Date: 2002-03-12 04:28 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2002-03-12 04:33 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2002-03-12 05:02 pm (UTC)Ugh.
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Date: 2002-03-12 05:04 pm (UTC)Re:
Date: 2002-03-12 05:05 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2002-03-12 08:26 pm (UTC)caller: Mr Brooks?
me: no, Book
caller: oh, sorry, Mr Brook
me: no, B-O-O-K
caller: oh, Brooks
me: no, Book, B-O-O-K, Book, like a book you read
caller: OH! simple, sorry, Mr, Books
me: no, just one Book, no S, it's spelled B-O-O-K
caller: Brook
me: click
wife: who was on the phone?
me: wrong number
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Date: 2002-03-13 08:05 am (UTC)A great name! Are you named for a librarian or sage?
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Date: 2002-03-13 04:24 pm (UTC)How many damn ways can you spell Sullivan? Sheesh!
I get junk mail addressed to Mrs. Sulabin. I can't tell you how may times I have been called Mrs. Solomon.
My maiden name was much more fun.
"Your last name please?"
"English."
"Okay, what is it?"
"English."
"Like the language?"
"Yes"
"How do you spell that?"
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Date: 2002-03-13 04:27 pm (UTC)