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false_harmonic
post Mar 20 2009, 05:03 PM
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Anyway... Do I look as if my name should be Ruth?
Probably about as much like I should be a Clare, which is generally the wrong name that gets used for me...


I get Claire too! My history teacher used to always call me Claire - now my little sister's in his class, and she gets called Lucy! Very unfair.


I used to get called Kirsty a lot in school. My name in no way resembles Kirsty, but there was another girl in my year with that name who I apparently looked very like (couldn't see the resemblance myself, apart from our hair being the same colour!) I once got yelled at because a teacher kept calling me Kirsty and the rest of the class couldn't stop sniggering: apparently their sniggering was my fault.

However, within my family I answer to pretty much any name directed at me, because the women in my family are terrible with names, so all us girls know that our names are interchangeable. The name I get most is Karen. Occassionally I even have to answer to my brother's name, but this is rare, and swiftly corrected when it does occur.

Outside my family I answer to pretty much any name directed at me, because my name is pretty much unpronounceable and unspellable, so people just make it up as they go along!
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post Mar 20 2009, 06:10 PM
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Well, they're still calling me Ruth. I thought it might wear off after a fortnight...
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post Mar 21 2009, 12:26 PM
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I got called Eleanor for almost a year because I sat in the same seat as another girl in the year below, in ICT.

We have differently coloured hair and eyes, and she doesn't wear glasses.

How could the teacher mix us up? Surely there were people in other classes sitting there as well!

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However, within my family I answer to pretty much any name directed at me, because the women in my family are terrible with names, so all us girls know that our names are interchangeable. The name I get most is Karen. Occassionally I even have to answer to my brother's name, but this is rare, and swiftly corrected when it does occur.


One of my friends is so bad with names that what I hear most often from her is, "Hannah-Cassie-Jackie-fish-dog-rabbit-NICKY!" At home I will answer to the name of anyone in the family, even if they're not in the room.
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QUOTE(false_harmonic @ Mar 20 2009, 05:03 PM) *

However, within my family I answer to pretty much any name directed at me, because the women in my family are terrible with names, so all us girls know that our names are interchangeable. The name I get most is Karen. Occassionally I even have to answer to my brother's name, but this is rare, and swiftly corrected when it does occur.


One of my friends is so bad with names that what I hear most often from her is, "Hannah-Cassie-Jackie-fish-dog-rabbit-NICKY!" At home I will answer to the name of anyone in the family, even if they're not in the room.



My mother used to call me Pppp'...eeona all the time, and my brother answered to F'..peeter. He always called himself Pete so no-one else would think he was an alien but I gave up.

Now my mum just calls me Sandra.

(My real name is Fiona Mary).
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post Mar 22 2009, 11:45 AM
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New random thought - how do they choose the guests on Desert Island Discs?
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post Mar 22 2009, 06:02 PM
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New random thought - how do they choose the guests on Desert Island Discs?

must be the ones they want to send a long way away ...
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post Mar 23 2009, 04:53 PM
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Why are all the weather-related smilies winter themed? I wanted to use some summer ones on the weather thread....
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post Mar 24 2009, 11:41 AM
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I've just been to the dentist. I don't like going there... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/sad.gif)
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post Mar 24 2009, 12:17 PM
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(IMG:style_emoticons/default/sad.gif) I dont think anyone does Barry.
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post Mar 24 2009, 05:01 PM
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You know if you have an operation, and they take something out or off of you...like an appendectomy, or the amputation of a limb...

What happens to the bits?

(I'm assuming incineration, but I have this vision of a special landfill full of the yellow clin waste bags full of slightly macabre decomposing body parts...)
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post Mar 24 2009, 05:18 PM
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Why does a certain forum member feel the need to offer me english tuition, because I didn't use correct grammer in a post?
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post Mar 24 2009, 05:52 PM
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grammer
You just did that to incite them to further ire, didn't you? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/rofl.gif)
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yes, i did

its people like them that give me a reason to not use correct grammar, because it annoys them
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post Mar 24 2009, 06:14 PM
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I've just been to the dentist. I don't like going there... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/sad.gif)
Aw, poor Barry. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/thereThere.gif) Personally, I love going to the dentist! He is very complimetary of things... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif) (As is his wife, who is also a dentist in the same practice.) I always come out glowing, even if they've been stealing my teeth or something. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)
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post Mar 24 2009, 06:33 PM
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QUOTE(Maizie @ Mar 24 2009, 05:01 PM) *

You know if you have an operation, and they take something out or off of you...like an appendectomy, or the amputation of a limb...

What happens to the bits?

(I'm assuming incineration, but I have this vision of a special landfill full of the yellow clin waste bags full of slightly macabre decomposing body parts...)

If this is a genuine desire to know, I believe they are usually macerated (minced up extremely small by a machine called a macerator, and then flushed away with waste water).

My nephew asked to keep his tonsils when they were removed, and still has them in a jar, preserved in formalin or something! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/ill.gif)
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