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Friday, January 13, 2012

Having Fun With Surnames (considering mine, how can I not?)

Three people in my building, two of whom I know well, are First, Last, and Best. There is also a Cloud down the hall, and there are Rains in the corporate phonebook as well as a whole sky full of Suns and Moons.

Years ago I was one of two manufacturing engineers on a new product, and our tech kindly referred to us as the Wong guy and the white guy.

5 comments:

gekko said...

I used to work with a guy named Butthar Fook. I Kid you not.

Don said...

Long Dong's nameplate didn't last long enough for me to steal it. If he's still here, he changed his first name.

Harry said...

I've been thinking of changing my name to Miles Longue. Might have been taken, but so what.

I once helped a student named Schmuck. Rather unfortunate.

Paula said...

Law firm: Payne & Fears. I kid you not.

Anonymous said...

My late and ex husband once directed a student play whose cast included an Olympic caliber swimmer named Britta Schick.

She perished trying to swim the Atlantic relay style with a ship following her progress -- ran into weather and was lost. Sad and yet I still snort thinking of her name.