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From: Sewhappie
Date: 09-24-2004, 06:31 PM (1 of 16)
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They just had a story on the news about a man in the midwest who legally changed his name to "They". What some people will do for attention. I am changing mine now, I.M. Perfect ( HAAAAAAAAAAAa don't I wish  )
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User: Sewhappie
Member since: 10-27-2001 Total posts: 1427 |
From: GreenDragonLady
Date: 09-24-2004, 08:38 PM (2 of 16)
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I should change mine to Miss Behavin! Jessica photos.yahoo.com/greendragondesigns
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User: GreenDragonLady
Member since: 07-29-2004 Total posts: 495 
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From: blackie
Date: 09-27-2004, 01:12 PM (3 of 16)
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We have a little Scottish ancestry... I always thought I'd change my name to Pat McCrotch ... or maybe Holden McGroin.
see the mundane life of a housewife.
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User: blackie
Member since: 03-31-2004 Total posts: 594 |
From: GreenDragonLady
Date: 09-27-2004, 03:45 PM (4 of 16)
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Blackie, those are HYSTERICAL!!!! Thanks for the laugh. I'll be chuckling to myself all afternoon! Jessica photos.yahoo.com/greendragondesigns
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User: GreenDragonLady
Member since: 07-29-2004 Total posts: 495
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From: Sewhappie
Date: 09-27-2004, 04:34 PM (5 of 16)
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Blackie, I LOVE THOSE!!!!!!! You are FUNNY!!!!!! |
User: Sewhappie
Member since: 10-27-2001 Total posts: 1427 |
From: LeapFrog Libby
Date: 09-29-2004, 09:28 PM (6 of 16)
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My Mom grew up in a town of less than 400 people.. They had a family there , last name Buzhard. (biz ZARD) . Everyone called them the Buzzards. They went to court and changed their name to Early.. After that, everyone called them the Early Buzzards.. That is true, I swear..
Sew With Love
Libby |
User: LeapFrog Libby
Member since: 05-01-2002 Total posts: 2022 
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From: Mischka
Date: 09-30-2004, 02:31 PM (7 of 16)
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ROFLMAO!!!!! Here's another...there's a prominent family by the last name of Assman in the rural midwestern area where DH grew up. They own the local farm equipment dealership...guess what it's called? "Assman Implement"! I just about died laughing the first time I saw that sign. Even though DH says it's pronounced "Oz-mun", I still crack up. Not sure I want to know about those implements... |
User: Mischka
Member since: 09-01-2004 Total posts: 63 |
From: Magot
Date: 09-30-2004, 04:37 PM (8 of 16)
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I worked in a Building Research Establishment for a while, you can imagine how much I laughed when I saw that the Stress and Strain department was next to the Creep Testing Laboratory. Definite case of nominative determinism. Mr Beech worked in the New Wood Store! A friend of mine worked for the Blood Products Laboratory, Dagger Lane, county of Herts. love and kisses, Jan
Guts-R-Us Cells a Speciality DNA to order. |
User: Magot
Member since: 12-22-2002 Total posts: 3626 
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From: plrlegal
Date: 09-30-2004, 09:17 PM (9 of 16)
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I worked for a law firm in Indiana in the 1970s that had a client with the last name "Queer." When you called their residence they would answer the phone "Queer's residence." That was long before homosexuality was prevalent and out in the open. I hope this doesn't offend anyone but it's the truth. Patsy Patsy
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User: plrlegal
Member since: 05-19-2001 Total posts: 318 |
From: DorothyL
Date: 10-01-2004, 07:55 AM (10 of 16)
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Mischka -- We have a lot of Assmans around here to. But a few years back my daughter and her friends -- then in their early teens -- really got a kick out of Bobbit Implement, a local farm machinery store. (remember John Wayne's Bobbit?) Dorothy |
User: DorothyL
Member since: 12-09-2002 Total posts: 3883 |
From: MaryW
Date: 10-01-2004, 09:29 AM (11 of 16)
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And remember the poor guy who got his dooie cut off, his last name was Bobbit too. We have a lot of Outhouse's around here, that is their last name. Not to mention Pottie's too. No lie. Very common names. MaryW
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User: MaryW
Member since: 06-23-2005 Total posts: 2542 
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From: DorothyL
Date: 10-01-2004, 12:39 PM (12 of 16)
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That was John Wayne Bobbit, Mary. Our sheriff is an Outhouse. Sheriff Outhouse. His wife won't use the name. Can't say I blame her. Dorothy |
User: DorothyL
Member since: 12-09-2002 Total posts: 3883 |
From: Sewhappie
Date: 10-01-2004, 04:08 PM (13 of 16)
| My DH told me that he went to school with a guy who's last name is jacksitz. Just imagine wha he was called by school age kids!!!! |
User: Sewhappie
Member since: 10-27-2001 Total posts: 1427 |
From: mommydionne
Date: 10-02-2004, 05:21 PM (14 of 16)
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Hey Mary I thought I'd add about the Outhouse's but you beat me to it, there are quite a few as well as the Whynots (honest, real names) 
Jeanette
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User: mommydionne
Member since: 01-08-2004 Total posts: 838 
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From: Sewhappie
Date: 10-02-2004, 09:35 PM (15 of 16)
| If they couldn't re-attach the "bobbit", would that have made him a "Hobbit"? |
User: Sewhappie
Member since: 10-27-2001 Total posts: 1427 |
From: beachgirl
Date: 10-03-2004, 11:06 PM (16 of 16)
Girls, I'm laughing so hard I won't be able to sleep tonight. It's kind of like that old Kool-aid gingle " Kool-aid Kool-aid taste great " now get that one off your brain. Have to sing it first. So help me I'll lay there in bed & all these silly names will go through my head & DH will think I've lost it for sure. Will someone please get me out of this straight jacket ? Their comin to take me away HA-HA. ( REMEMBER THAT SONG ? 
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User: beachgirl
Member since: 08-31-2004 Total posts: 615 
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