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Trivial Pursuits => Wild Card => Topic started by: slink on May 04, 2004, 01:54:39 am
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Hopefully not too much 'cause I just shrugged mine off.
It's possibly one of the more insane decisions I have decided to make while high. OK, probably not one of the more insane I've made, but one of the more insane I have gone through with!
It felt kind of like something I had to do tonight. I have had a very odd weekend. Well, an incredibly odd weekend, and a very odd preceeding fortnight. I went away and was able to spend a weekend just introducing myself (to some people who I quasi-knew in this crazy ethereal manner) as Slink. I kind of realised that that's who I am now, and at least with that name I am comfortable to say it myself and thus can introduce myself to people!
I didn't veen keep my family name. What with it sucking.
So yes. There we go. Cripes, you all know my real name now. That oughtn't be allowed!
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You are one hoopy frood.
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You are one hoopy frood.
I thought so. 'Til I saw the list of spelling mistakes present in my above post.
Bugger.
But actually no ones ever said that to me and Zaphod has always been a hero of mine. Wow.
Oh, and I'm intrigued... Does this beat Paul's mohawk?
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Are you telling us you legally changed your name to Slink?
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It might help to tell people what you changed it from, G. Or, former G.
Personally, I totally think you're more of a Slink. So it that the whole name, just Slink? The one word?
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That's fuck*ng sweet. I'm going to change my name when I get married this summer - first and last. They will both be conventional names, though.
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Oh, and I'm intrigued... Does this beat Paul's mohawk?
You can never top the mohawk.
(http://www.paulmcrae.com/images/Miscellany/Misc/DSCN8767-E500.jpg)
But it's gone now.
(http://www.paulmcrae.com/images/Miscellany/Misc/DSCN8801-E500.jpg)
Good luck with the new name though.
~Paul
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I'm going to shave my head except for the back, and shave my new name into that.
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Paul, I respect your decisions entirely, but your head is unnervingly shiny and pointed.
(Don't take it personal-like. I'm sure mine would be too.)
Anyway, congrats, Slink, and early congrats to Nabu. It's a gutsier thing you've done or will do than... well, than I'm entirely capable of.
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Paul, I respect your decisions entirely, but your head is unnervingly shiny and pointed.
Um, yeah. Are you from France or something?
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One of my coworkers got married and changed both names, from Amy *something, I don't really pay attention*, to Ruby Uby.
How long before that gets real damn annoying?
However, Slink, in your case, the name change is most excellent (unless you changed your last name to, like, Dink, and your middle name is Yosemete), and I'll bet it will serve you well. For one, now I feel okay with getting William Gibson to sign your copy of "Pattern Recognition" to "Slink"...because it's your real name now!
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I changed my name eleven years ago last month.
What, did you think someone would actually name their child "Jough"?
Good on you, Slink - I'm all for people moving to non-human names.
And there's no adjustment for me, since I've never known you as anything else.
Although I kinda dig your last name. Lots of character.
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One of my coworkers got married and changed both names, from Amy *something, I don't really pay attention*, to Ruby Uby.
How long before that gets real damn annoying?
I'd just think all the time about Ruby Tuesday and Pere Ubu. It wouldn't be such a bad life.
But yeah, props to you Slink. As anyone here with whom I've traded CDs knows, I have a ridiculous name, and I've thought many's the time of ditching it.
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Well, to kind of try and answer all in one fell swoop - yes JL, it is now Legally changed to Tormad Slink Jadranko.
I felt I should keep Tormad, one to make my parents happy, and two because I don't mind it, and I felt somehow like not letting go of my old name. But basically, I am now Slink Jadranko formally.
Which is interesting. I guess it'll kick in when I sort my passport and driving license out! Which also means I get to have a picture of me with short hair on my license.
I just think of me more as Slink now. I have always wanted to change my name, since I was about 11, but never really wanted to change it to anything conventional. So it just meant finding something I could identify myself as.
Eeeeps.
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As anyone here with whom I've traded CDs knows, I have a ridiculous name, and I've thought many's the time of ditching it.
Dude, you have the name of a schoolgirl who goes on magical adventures with cats, and maybe joins Belle & Sebastian. You know it, it's like Stuart David...**** ******....it works.
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I might just change my name to ***** ****, or maybe **** *****. Slink, your name was already sort of Superhero/Supervillain - it's just moreso now. Which is cool.
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Tormad Slink Jadranko sounds like someone upon whom the Ayatollah would issue a fuck*ng fatwa.
Awesome.
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He'd issue T. Slink Jadranko a Fat One, I think.
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Tormad Jadranko reminds me of my favorite name from history, the one I'd steal if I could possibly back it up: Nestor Makhno (http://www.nestormakhno.info/). Are you a wee bit Ukrainian, Slink?
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Seems a little reminescent of "Haywood Jablome".
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My favorite historical name remains "Hjalmar Horace Greeley Schacht." Even if he was a Nazi, that's a hell of a name to have.
Anyway, Tormad Slink Jadranko may be the finest name that has ever existed. It's especially awesome if Tormad was actually, like, a birth name.
My personal name is a little trust-fund-baby-ish, but I've grown attached to it and want to keep it, if only because my last name is vanishingly rare on this side of the pond and thus I want to preserve the traditions of my dying people. (I sound like an elf, I realize. Bear with me.) My only real name pet peeve is that it has six "a"s, two vowelish "y"s, and no other vowels, making it functionally impossible to get adequate anagrams from.
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I'll jump on this bandwagon. It is indeed a name of wonder, and congratulations Slink.
I'm still undecided on my favourite historical name though. I do find Otto von Bismarck unreasonably fun to say, but that appreciation is probably coloured by my love of the man himself. Silly hats and contemptuous telegrams, oh yeah.
And thanks as well to Bozack as well. Though I have not yet gotten around to accomplishing either of the tasks my moniker apparently sets out for me, I'd like to think I'd be up to either of them.
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Wow.
I've totally just got back from my friends house, at 6.40am to be greeted by all your comments regarding the name.
I definitely like the idea of being a supervillain. I have long plotted, without toiling naturally, in my dormant volcanic lair, but have never actually had the name to fulfill the role. Tormad would have been a good start. but it was derailed immediately by Grover and kicked while down by Robson. So all in all it was an odd conglomeration.
While it would be quite tempting to have kept Grover, I felt four names was silly. And having Grover and Slink in the same name was just unreasonable!
My parents only response when I mentioned that I had indeed got round to it, was that if I was keeping Tormad, could they call me that... The downside being, as a child whenever my mother shouted at me, she would call me Tormad. Oddly the person who flipped out was my friend who calls me Slink about half the time, and yet for some reason...
I've had a few jolts today as I remembered that my name is actually now Slink.
Oh and no, as far as I'm aware, despite my best efforts in wranglings with time and space, I do not have any Ukrainian in me. I am pretty much just a filthy Scot.
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I was thinking about this last night . . . (digression: yes, there I am, should be accomplishing things and thinking about the problems we, as a society, face, and I'm thinking about Slink's name) . . . and I feel that Tormad Slink Jadranko has to be a superhero, and his supervillain is R obot Octopus Hitler.
It took four times, but it works! God I hope the name is right.
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Man, Tormad Grover Robson? (or possibly the other way around?)
With all due respect, man, that in and of itself is impressive as hell.
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Man, Tormad Grover Robson? (or possibly the other way around?)
Indeed. It was ****** ****** ******.
I mean, it's pretty, erm, monumental, but ****** is just far too plain a surname for the rest of it.
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Man, Tormad Grover Robson? (or possibly the other way around?)
Indeed. It was ****** ****** ******.
I mean, it's pretty, erm, monumental, but Robson is just far too plain a surname for the rest of it.
Well, at least you had the initials GTR, in reference to that Steve Howe/Steve Hackett supergroup (ok, they weren't Cream, but still).
They had one album, and then put out a greatest hits . . . and it was live. That takes brass balls, people.
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Well, at least you had the initials GTR, in reference to that Steve Howe/Steve Hackett supergroup (ok, they weren't Cream, but still).
I like the fact now that TSJ sounds like a sports car company, as opposed to GTR which to me sounded like a particular model of VW Golf.
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Robson is just far too plain a surname for the rest of it.
Not if you roll the R and pronounce it with a long O.
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Robson is just far too plain a surname for the rest of it.
Not if you roll the R and pronounce it with a long O.
Then you'd just be too much like that Bucket woman on Keeping Up Appearances.
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I love the idea that even the first and last name with middle initial sounds awesome.
Tormand S. Jadranko.
What could be cooler? Sounds less like a supervillain and more like the author of "500 ways to kill a man using only your bare hands and a comb."
When I changed my name after the wedding, it was a slight shock for the first month, 'til I got used to it. Although having grown up with a Polish surname, I habitually spell my new, relatively common name. It's like my name is actually "Jamie J-A-M as in Mary-I-E Dunston D-U-N-S-T-O-N."
I'm just afraid of being Janie Dunstan, I suppose.
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I must always spell my last name, not because it is uncommon, but because everyone who hears it automatically assumes that it should be pluralized.
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JL, does this mean the internet moratorium on your real name is no more?
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JL, does this mean the internet moratorium on your real name is no more?
Nope, it just means you have to crank up the old doublethink whenever you see it.
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I must always spell my last name, not because it is uncommon, but because everyone who hears it automatically assumes that it should be pluralized.
I have a simiarly problem. My last name is one letter off from a much more common one, so even when I spell it people assume that I really meant to spell the more common name.
I know a few people named Johnston who have a similar problem to a lesser degree.
And apparently Kyle causes a lot of problems for people who learned english as a 2nd language.
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I spell my last name pretty much habitually, to the point that people on the forensics circuit in high school used to recognize it. Apparently this is because there is a far more anglicized, more common variation out there which people seem to think my name is.
I should really just go ahead and hunt them all down, ninja-style.
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I still think "T. Slink Jadranko" sounds cooler than "Tormad S. Jadranko".
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I still think "T. Slink Jadranko" sounds cooler than "Tormad S. Jadranko".
I'm sufficiently happy with both that I think I will use them in different places to different nefarious ends.
I think Dr. T. Slink Jadranko would make me some old, well to do inventor, who gets involved in various crime capers and is forced to get involved as a hybrid cybernetic professor who drives a Silver Shadow in a 30's metropolis of gothic proportions.
Tormad S. Jadranko for me comes across as the evil arch nemesis in a futuristic utopia/dystopia dichotomy, with his army of a million henchman willing to die at his very command, hellbent on the destruction of the global government to retain control and kill everyone who was ever mean to him at school.
I think I've left myself pretty open for choices, but I do have to get a PhD now just so I can be Dr. Jadranko.
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JL, does this mean the internet moratorium on your real name is no more?
Look, JL is the closest thing I've ever had to a nickname*. Don't take that away from me. Or I might be forced to change my legal name to a set of initials, just to show you all.
*My brother calls me Bumbleheaded Munchkin, but that doesn't count.
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Closest I've ever had is my monogram: "ecd." For a long while I forgot to respond to "Eric," and then I had to find a job.
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Look, JL is the closest thing I've ever had to a nickname*. Don't take that away from me. Or I might be forced to change my legal name to a set of initials, just to show you all.
Outside of family nicknames and/or cutesy-poo abbreviations of my real first name, initials are about as close as it comes here, too. Admittedly, at this point I will answer to my initials being yelled out in public at me, but hey, it works.
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At work, since I'm the youngest person there, my nickname is "Sparky." However, I get my revenge; now, two of my co-workers are known as "Mom" and "Gramps."
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Man. I realized a long time ago I could never get a PhD. without changing my name.
Yeah, it's worth revealing (http://www.drpepper.com/dp/html/index.html) my surname for this.
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Man. I realized a long time ago I could never get a PhD. without changing my name.
Yeah, it's worth revealing (http://www.drpepper.com/dp/html/index.html) my surname for this.
Not only would you be a doctor, but you'd be delicious too.
~Paul
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It could be worse. Instead of a soda, you could be gravy (https://www.whitelily.com/Store/Product.aspx?ID=2392).
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Man. I realized a long time ago I could never get a PhD. without changing my name.
Yeah, it's worth revealing (http://www.drpepper.com/dp/html/index.html) my surname for this.
Oh, but that is BEST reason to get a PhD I ever heard of.
Some days the only thing that kept me in grad school was that I wanted to be able to say "I'm a doctor, Jim, not a (whatever)."
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Other great (real) doctor names I've encountered:
Dr. Pain/Payne
Dr. Strange
Baz De Baz, M.D.
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It could be worse. Instead of a soda, you could be gravy (https://www.whitelily.com/Store/Product.aspx?ID=2392).
That is truly the limit!
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With my last name, I feel honor-bound to get a PhD, possibly in evil-ology. (Were I to combine my last name and my SO's upon marriage, it is entirely possible that I could have the finest evil pseudoscientist name in the history of man; this is, needless to say, very tempting.)
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I am determined to get a Ph.D. so that my kids' friends can tell their parents they're going to play and Dr. and Mr. Dunston's house.
That just sounds neat to me.
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I am determined to get a Ph.D. so that my kids' friends can tell their parents they're going to play and Dr. and Mr. Dunston's house.
That just sounds neat to me.
This is stone awesome.
Just don't turn into one of those people who insist on being called Doctor even when it's awkward or obviously making them an asshole. My AP English Language teacher was one of these people, to the point that it became a miniature tradition for particularly gutsy or fatalistic students to end their year with her by yelling "thanks, Mrs. Cog-Nard!" and running away as quickly as their legs could carry them.
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Oh, goodness, no. All I ask is that my children address other adults by their proper titles until they are old enough to vote. I will also expect my students to refer to my by my proper title; fortunately, Mrs. is as proper as Dr. in my case, since I'll be no more proud of obtaining my Ph.D. than I am of being married to Mr. Dunston. As for everyone who's not my student or child, some variation my actual name will do just fine.
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Sorry folks - I've been too busy drinking and plotting the demise of my students lately to post. But here goes.
My name's as plain as plain gets. Sara Childs. Yes, that's Sara with no h, and Childs with an s at the end (Julia Child has no s, and no, we're not related). No, obnoxious childhood friend, I'm not going to change my surname to Adult when I grow up. Yes, obnoxious chlidhood english teacher, my name is grammatically incorrect. Kee-rist.
Luckily, my sweetie (and, in all likelyhood, future spouse's) last name is a nice, uncommon anglicized Polish name. And who knows, this thread might inspire me to change my name to Louise (my middle name) Mite. Hmmm...
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Yay for Polish names!
My maiden name was one of the rarer names in the world -- it was kind of a shame to let it go, but I figure, that's what the men in the family are for. Sure, I had a husband who would've gladly let me keep my maiden name, and a mother-in-law who encouraged me to do so (the only reason she didn't is because of a cultural misunderstanding between her and an immigrations officer). But in the end, I just decided to do the traditional thing and take Pedro's name.
How un-empowered of me. Hey, it's my own brand of feminism: I'm celebrating the femininity inherent in Cold War era gender roles. Conformity is Freedom! Down with the Reds!
Sorry. It's an odd day. Incidentally, Pedro and I will be out of town starting this evening and ending Saturday afternoon, in celebration of his sister's college graduation. This isn't the appropriate place to announce this, but I just realized that it's almost six and I haven't packed.
Toodles!
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I always wanted my students to call me Herr Doktor Professor.
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Luckily, my sweetie (and, in all likelyhood, future spouse's) last name is a nice, uncommon anglicized Polish name. And who knows, this thread might inspire me to change my name to Louise (my middle name) Mite. Hmmm...
Man, we totally have the same middle name. Let's be friends or something.
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I am determined to get a Ph.D. so that my kids' friends can tell their parents they're going to play and Dr. and Mr. Dunston's house.
That just sounds neat to me.
This is stone awesome.
Just don't turn into one of those people who insist on being called Doctor even when it's awkward or obviously making them an asshole. My AP English Language teacher was one of these people, to the point that it became a miniature tradition for particularly gutsy or fatalistic students to end their year with her by yelling "thanks, Mrs. Cog-Nard!" and running away as quickly as their legs could carry them.
This is why I liked attending a school where it was forbidden to address any teacher as Dr. (unless an M.D.). It was much easier just to call all the professors Judy or whatever than trying to remember who was Dr., Mr., Mrs., Ms. . . .
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Louise might what?
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I thought I also must make mention of this...
I just bought my car of someone who was called Farquharson.
Farquharson Inkster.
For as long as my car is around I get to remember it from the forms.
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Slink and his car win.
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Slink and his car win.
I met a woman tonight who has the same name as I. Ladies and Gentlemen meet Paul and Paula McRae
(http://www.paulmcrae.com/FEATURES/ART_CAR_PARADE_2004/IMAGES/BALL/DSCN8959-E500.jpg)
She's a cool indy filmmaker who's first production, Baby (http://www.palominoproductions.com/) will be released in June.
~Paul
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You two should get married. You'd save on monograms and stationery.
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My name's as plain as plain gets. Sara Childs.
You obviously need to become a pediatrician.
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My name's as plain as plain gets. Sara Childs.
You obviously need to become a pediatrician.
Or a schoolteacher.
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I thought I also must make mention of this...
I just bought my car of someone who was called Farquharson.
Farquharson Inkster.
For as long as my car is around I get to remember it from the forms.
DUDE.
Yes, Slink and his car WIN FOREVER.
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You two should get married. You'd save on monograms and stationery.
Well I did immediatly fall in love with her, but sadly she's already married.
~Paul
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Just got back from my brother's where I got to at least reveal it to him and his girlfriend. They were surprisingly not so weirded out. My brother can be quite terse and impatient (he is great, don't get me wrong, hence I visit him fairly regularly to hang out and swap music and shit) and they were pretty cool about it.
I guess part of it was that they totally understood my reasons for doing so. I mean my brother got a similarly odd name out of the whole birth thing. Although he, in my opinion, got the better abbreviated everyday name, having being given a Polish name. He did get the worse tacked on first name to please the grandparents though.
I keep getting letters and yelling That's not my name!!.
I don't know what the chances of my brother remembering to call me Slink are though.
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Slink, I guess I should take this time to tell you that I don't pronounce your name (in my head) as "Slink" as much as I always say it "S Link."
You see, I'm an audio geek and used to have component equipment in the 80s that you could control with a single remote by connecting the Sony "s-link" (Sony Link) cable between devices.
So whenever I see "slink" I always think of the sony s-link cable.
In other words, you're the cord that connects everything together.
I'm not sure if that's a compliment or not.
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I'm not sure if that's a compliment or not.
If it didn't seemingly stop me holding myself together...
Well, if I have to be named after any piece of audio equipment Sony is one of the perferable ones. I mean, something from Marshall or Gibson would be cool, but Sony will do.
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For one, now I feel okay with getting William Gibson to sign your copy of "Pattern Recognition" to "Slink"...because it's your real name now!
Oh, and yea. This is the only reason I changed it really. Just 'cause I was ashamed to have someone elses copy of it!
Nah, it's why I was really quite happy that you got it signed to Slink. Perfect!
Thanks again though, people keep threatening me with death for it.
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Now I'm dying to know your brother's name. Stanislaus? That can be abbreviated easily enough....
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That can be abbreviated easily enough....
Not quite such a normal name when abbreviated however.
No, his name is Kasimir, so he's always just called Kas. Of course, friends have always thought it to be Kaz, Cas or Caz. Usually anything but how it is, but then isn't that always the way!
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img.
~Paul
Dude, do you ever leave your house or have anything happen that you don't have a camera around?
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Kasimir is a stone awesome name. Your brother should be proud, honestly.