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On Thu, 17 Apr 2003 17:53:08 GMT, dhomuth1@attbi.com (Don Homuth)
wrote:

>On Wed, 16 Apr 2003 21:53:50 -0600, Uncle Samuel <stars@bars> wrote:
>
>>Don't play kissy face with me Homu!
>
>You worry far too much.

Some say not enough...

>But I'm fascinated with this new and clever Play on Words with my
>name.  Since, unlike you, I have never gone with an alias so as to
>hide my identity, you do get a clear shot at it.

Er so, you can always call me "oinkle" like the rest of the liberals
do.

>So -- what's the objective here.  Previously, those of Little Obvious
>Wit have tried to make it into a version of "homo" as a clever ploy.
>Is that where you're trying to go?

Gee donny, it would seem you're one to ponder aren't you?

>If it is, consider there's a double entendre involved, since the
>specific term Homo sapiens applies to everyone, and means Wise or
>Thinking Man.  There is the far-too-obvious and jejeune try to make it
>into homosexual, but I can quite assure you (I have references) that
>descriptor does not fit.

Well it's more than magnanimous of you to pat yourself on the back
like that donny.

>Otherwise, it's a perfectly reasonable name of Germanic extraction.
>Shoot -- a former USMC CG once carried a version of it, some time
>back.

And Typhoid Mary was a carrier too, so?

>Now, if you want to discuss Unfortunate Names, a former colleague of
>mine in the newspaper bidniss carried the monicker of Phil Penas --
>with the tilde over the "n" giving it the hispanic pronunciation.
>That is, in Spain, a reasonably proud and useful name.  Unfortunately,
>in this nation, he experienced some 11-yr-olds giving it the obvious
>mispronunciation, save the Phil took the problem seriously, and it
>bugged him well into his adult years.  Eventually he changed his name
>to Mathews -- a play on his middle name. 

Shame.

>Unfortunate -- one hates to see perfectly good ethnically-derived
>names become Anglicized simply because a bunch of 5th-grade
>mentalities caused problems back in elementary school.  Ah well --
>such things happen.

Yes they do.

>But it does leave me wondering when your 12th birthday might be?

Depends which calendar we're using...

>Should you ever have the courage to use your Real Name in your
>postings, rather than hiding behind a nomme de Net, perhaps there are
>some other 11-yr-olds out there who might want to be clever with yours
>as well.

Yer funny, in a queasy, pseudo-intellectual kinda way...

>Meanwhile, call me what you will.  I can handle your sort hardly
>without noticing the effort.

Sure, this lengthy rejoinder handily proves that specious assertion!

> It's not as though you're terribly
>original, after all.
 
You get what you earned.