Impossible to Quit This Dang Blasted Hobby!!!

Well, you got sorta close. Maybe you should try copy/paste instead... ;)

Al Superczynski wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com:

Darned!

Looking at it better now, I really screwed up!!

I'll copy/paste next time for sure! No harm done I hope.

Cheers,

Dennis

I got over misspellings of my last name long ago! Not to worry. ;)

Since you've experienced Japan, you'll appreciate how tough it can be if you enter into a marriage in this country. First, you are not allowed to have a family name registered in Japan if you are not a Japanese national. So when you future wife removes herself from her family register to create a new one with your new name, the fun begins: you cannot use latin characters, and the forms have spaces that are only a few characters long. Ugh, the great strides that computer memory has made have no effect on bureaucracy.

And _Japanese_ bureaucracy is in a class all its own... ;-p

That's why I don't use my last name in messages. I have the same amount of letters as Al, but no part of it forms an English word of more than 1 letter (A), unlike Al's which does start with a 5 letter English word, so you only have 7 letters to work out. :-)

Willshak wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@news.supernews.com:

Right... this makes me curious about your last name ;0)

I wouldn't mind having a last name that started with "Super" though!

Cheers,

Dennis

Be careful what you wish for. Trust me on this... ;-p

You get used to spelling your name constantly for those who need to write it down. :)

Bill Banaszak, MFE Sr.

Heh, I gave both kids Polish names. Now they get to spell their whole names. Well, my daughter up and married a guy with an easier to spell last name so she just gets sucked into conversations about where the first one came from (my dad's cousin).

Why did I do that? When I went to school there must have been six names for kids and there were 5-6 of each in my classes.

Bill Banaszak, MFE Sr.

Mad-Modeller wrote in news:454842F0.9F32D9B8 @nextline.com:

If you mean with being careful with what to wish for and are referring to being bullied as a kid because of your last name, I've been down that road. My last name -Loep- Sounds astonisching a lot like Poep which is pronounced in dutch as "poop" and it also means the same as the english "poop". in addition to that I am a red head so there were reasons enough to bully me, but I had to get strong or die (Johnny Cash in below mentioned song). And I'm still alive!

The tale about your kids names reminds me of the Johnny Cash song "A boy named Sue". A real good song and a kneeslapper on top of that.

On your car story: I still have the Acc. Min. McLaren MB8 on the shelve. Which is my one and only car kit in my shelve. (I am named after Denny Hulme) I think that car just HAS TO BE orange, so thanks for the warning.

Cheers,

Dennis Loep

My grandfather changed our family name from Llonch to Young. Got tired of the Gringos mangling it into Launch, Lunk and Lunch.

My cousin, one of the laziest people that I have ever met, married a guy named Young. Her name then became Marsha Young Young. At least she divorced the jerk after a few years.

Tom

Mad-Modeller wrote:

My daughter went from 12 letters to 4 (Valk).

Hey Dennis, I've heard every version of 'Banana-xxx' the other kids could come up with. Yeah, not quite as scatological but it does tend to harden one's attitudes.

IIRC, Cash's song came out the first winter I was married and it's one of my faves.

Bill Banaszak, MFE Sr.

Yeah, but I still have to say the 'c', 'z' and 'i' phonetically... ;-p

Ah, yes! The famous 'Z as in Zorro'! You know, I used to get a lot of that, "You can't be Polish. Your name doesn't end in 'ski'!" The worst case of spelling things phonetically that I ever ran into was when I tried to get one of those 'free' lessons from the Video Professor. The toll free number connected with some Indian lady who needed every darn thing spelled that way. After agonising our way through that she wouldn't send me the disc I really wanted. I hung up after two tries at convincing her to send what I wanted.

Bill Banaszak, MFE Sr.