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Shovel> I ran across the worst named person in the world today... Shovel> I'm sitting in the waiting room at my doctor's office, waiting for a physical before I go off to college in a few weeks. Shovel> I'm a little early and there are other people in the waiting room so when the nurse comes out to call the next person I'm pretty sure it's not me. Shovel> She walks out of the hallway, looks down at her clipboard and immediately turns around and goes back behind the door. Shovel> She's obviously talking to some of the other nurses. Shovel> When she comes back about 30 seconds later, she looks at the clipboard, takes a deep breath and says: "Shithead O'Neal, the doctor's able to see you now." Shovel> A large black woman stands up quickly and yells in a surprsingly stereotypical black women voice "IT'S PRONOUNCED SHAW-THEED!" Shovel> She storms off after the nurse, who is apologizing very loudly and everyone in the waiting room just looks at each other and exchange a few laughs and snickers.
Not withstanding, I know a Benjamin Waugh (Ben-wa), an N.V. Able (he was born handicapped), and a Harold Dickman (Hairy Dick, man) ...
I've often thought that my parents should have saved the right people a moment of thought and just named me Jewey Jewman or Kikey Kikeman or Moses Weinstein. But believe it or not, there are very jewey Jews here in MD who say that even by my name they would never have guessed me to be a Red Sea hiker. Even though I am of the Sephardim, my grandmother was of the Ashkenazim, hence the red hair. There aren't a lot of us, eh lucky?
Joined: Fri Jan 12 2007, 04:38am
Location: Florida
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A guy I knew in college was named Richard Whacker. I, as a Richard, never understood the nickname 'Dick', but he insisted on everyone calling him that, making his name Dick Wacker.
That's pretty funny. My fraternal grandmother was from Warsaw. She married my grandfather who was a Sephardic Slav. The Irish was my mother's side. The Celtic part is by choice.
