On April 13th, 2009 at 11:22 am, Patronedheart said:

Same here. My last name is very simple–only four letters (no jokes please!!!), very simple. But people can’t pronounce it or spell it correctly. I’ll never forget the day my older brother came home from the 2nd grade upset because a smug music teacher thought he was too stupid to know how to spell his own name. I would joke she must have been a liberal, but I have a very conservative sister who has that same attitude.

After 65, and the inevitable onset of crankiness and senility, drug realted deaths of Liberals, and the realization that Social Security has been looted by liberals and now they want to euthanize the old, party identification does seem to start tipping back to the Republicans.

Oops. I guess I forgot

the inevitable onset of crankiness, paranoia about medication stealing robots and liberal euthanizers and senility.

After 65, and the inevitable onset of crankiness and senility, drug realted deaths of Liberals, and the realization that Social Security has been looted by liberals and now they want to euthanize the old, party identification does seem to start tipping back to the Republicans.

After 65, and the inevitable onset of crankiness and senility, party identification does seem to start tipping back to the Republicans.

O.K. Chap…I resemble that remark! I am over 65 and I am neither cranky or senile, although some on these threads might disagree with that! Actually, I was quite liberal until my early 30’s when I married and started a family. Those old “family values” then kicked in and I realised how stupid I had been when I was younger. I never looked back, except with regret over some of the things I did as a liberal with low self-esteem and lower value system. Wasted years!

I guessing when the Brits colonized the sub-continent several of us got loose there too.

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Squire L
Squire L uh
Sqwy rel
B@st@ard (oh sorry that ones just from my ex-wife)

My last name can be said 20 different ways because no one wants to admit to themselves that it is pronounced exactly as one would read it.

Skwer-ell?

Skwer-ill?

Skwire-ell?

Skuh-whirl-ell?

My last name can be said 20 different ways because no one wants to admit to themselves that it is pronounced exactly as one would read it. Most of the time, my co-workers and customers they think I am Indian (asian) anyway.

It bothers me about as much as when I use my ex-girlfriends grocery store discount card. The stores have a policy that they have to call me Mr So-and-so based on what is printed on the receipt – but they always have an odd look on their face when they try to pronounce her eastern european name and I dont look like a Sasha….

I have had my name ripped apart throughout my life in the pooblik school system. At times, my name was so mispronounced, by that I mean completely different syllables, that I had no idea that the teacher was calling my name (they use to just read the last name) and I was shown to be truant in the first few days of school in certain years. Imagine how stupid the teacher felt when it was shown that I was in my classes (my parents told the teacher that he was an idiot).

I think the representative was stupid for issuing this statement.

The true problem with voting, DMV, pretty much anything related to the registration of personnel data and related information has nothing to do with regards to a first or last name. It pretty much has something to do with the slackers used for data entry at the source. This applies to the private sectors just as well as it does to the pooblik werx (pubic works).

It troubles me that people attempt to “solve” problems by looking superficially at the circumstances rather than truly opening the sore and addressing the source of the problem.

On April 13th, 2009 at 11:30 am, chapoutier said:

By grow up, I didn’t mean the physical aspect of the term, chap. I meant the mental aspect. Thanks for the research though!