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| Calphidrewby13 Newbie United States Joined 5847 days ago 25 posts - 27 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French, Swahili | Message 73 of 140 06 September 2009 at 10:53pm | IP Logged | ||
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My parents had a professor by the name of Richard Wiener who, at graduation, insisted being introduced as Dick Wiener.
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| Belardur Octoglot Senior Member Germany Joined 5611 days ago 148 posts - 195 votes  Speaks: English*, GermanC2, Spanish, Dutch, Latin, Ancient Greek, French, Lowland Scots Studies: Biblical Hebrew, Italian, Arabic (Written), Mandarin, Korean | Message 74 of 140 11 September 2009 at 12:57pm | IP Logged | ||
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I know an elderly lady named Vera Boner. I believe her husband's name was Richard, but I don't know if he ever went by the short version...
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| orangetri Newbie Canada Joined 5539 days ago 6 posts - 7 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Russian Studies: Latin | Message 75 of 140 12 October 2009 at 11:06am | IP Logged | ||
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Last week I visited a dentist's office and the receptionist called "Harry I. Ball", I could hardly contain myself!
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| Jar-ptitsa Triglot Senior Member Belgium Joined 5898 days ago 980 posts - 1006 votes Speaks: French*, Dutch, German | Message 76 of 140 12 October 2009 at 12:55pm | IP Logged | ||
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In Flanders one dentist's name is Demaertelaere (=the torturer)
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| Levi Pentaglot Senior Member United States Joined 5567 days ago 2268 posts - 3328 votes Speaks: English*, French, Esperanto, German, Spanish Studies: Russian, Dutch, Portuguese, Mandarin, Japanese, Italian | Message 77 of 140 13 October 2009 at 3:40am | IP Logged | ||
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My district elected a man named Tim Lawliss to be family court judge. Edited by Levi on 13 October 2009 at 3:41am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| pookiebear79 Groupie United States Joined 6030 days ago 76 posts - 142 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Dutch, French, Swedish, Italian | Message 78 of 140 17 October 2009 at 1:58pm | IP Logged | ||
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It's not as funny, but once at my old job we had a travel agent call to book a flight for her client, whose name was Duncan Hines. (Which is/was a brand of cookies here, though I haven't seen those in years.*)
I don't think it was *that* odd, but when she was about to give the client's name for the booking she was like, "I'm not joking, this is how it appears on his passport." Maybe she had got people before who thought she was joking and gave her a hard time, because she was a bit touchy about it...probably more than the man whose name it was! Maybe his mother craved chocolate chip cookies all the time when she was pregnant with him. ;) *Edit: I haven't seen the packaged cookies in years, but I forgot about their mixes for cakes and brownies, which I think are still around. Useless factoid anyway. :P Edited by pookiebear79 on 17 October 2009 at 2:02pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| administrator Hexaglot Forum Admin Switzerland FXcuisine.com Joined 7376 days ago 3094 posts - 2987 votes 12 sounds Speaks: French*, EnglishC2, German, Italian, Spanish, Russian Personal Language Map | Message 79 of 140 17 October 2009 at 3:17pm | IP Logged | ||
She should have worked for an ophtalmologist. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Envinyatar Diglot Senior Member Guatemala Joined 5536 days ago 147 posts - 240 votes Speaks: Spanish*, English Studies: Modern Hebrew | Message 80 of 140 18 October 2009 at 8:07pm | IP Logged | ||
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Latin American urban legends mention Zoila Marina de Guerra (I am the Navy), Zoila Meza de Villar (I am the pool table) and the very disturbing Alma Marcela Silva de Gozo.
Now in real life, there's a journalist here in Guatemala named Aquiles Pinto Flores (here i paint flowers) and a very known environmentalist named Vida Amor de Paz (life love of peace?). There's a "Hell" in Norway (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hell,_Norway), a "Condom" in France (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condom,_Gers) and a "Dildo" in Canada (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dildo,_Newfoundland_and_Labrad or). 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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