it seems to be a reoccurring phenomenon on here that people keep spelling my name john. it clearly says jon. i dont know why people keep typing john. my full name is jonathan. thus jon. no H.
Well, there is only ONE way to spell "Isaac"! ;) It's just not a terribly common name, I suppose. People spell it wrong ALL the time. Even the damn DMV spelled it wrong on my drivers license once. I was super annoyed that I had to go back and wait in line all over again because they don't know how to spell... :p ---------- ------------------ The magnificent YouTube channel of the internet user known as "isaacullah"
A number of years ago I worked at a chemical plant doing a job much like Homer Simpson's on The Simpsons. Anyway, I worked there for some 3-3.5 year and a number of guys including the director of my department (whom I seen every so often) & the foreman on 2nd shift (whom I seen on a daily basis) called my Brian. Every, freaking, day from the day I started there. After a while I gave up correcting them.
I remember one time I did something really good and the director of my department came up to me in front of a bunch of others in my department and said "...you know, I've always liked you BRIAN...", lol.
Ever since that experience at that company I don't bother to correct people. I've been called worse, heh.
---------- ~Ryan
"I play the harmonica. The only way I can play is if I get my car going really fast, and stick it out the window." - Stephen Wright
Pennsylvania - H.A.R.P. (Harmonica Association 'Round Philly)
Same here. My name is Andrew and NOT Andy! I hate the automatic shortening of Andrew, it's SOOOO disrespectful! Some call me Michael as well and I've heard people shorten it to Mick. WTF?
I'm just plain old Seth. Hard to screw that one up. My last name on the other hand, people can't seem to say it, let alone spell it. I feel for ya, man.
My parents named me David and my dear old mum used to let fly at anyone who called me Dave. It worked.
Today the only ones that refer to me as Dave are either the suited variety of conmen ie usually real estate or car salesmen. Trying to be overly familiar- but it's like a red rag to a bull ie they are quickly thrown out the door without any chance of a sale.
Last year I entered a competition called 'Seniors Superstar' & one of the judges kept referring to me as 'Dave' but he also called my harp a 'mouth organ'. I didn't much care for this judge from the start.
My last name is Glass... at one school where I worked, people kept calling me "Ron." Some may remember Ron Glass, the African American actor on Barney Miller. Since it could be seen as a natural mistake due to our resemblance, me being a short white Jewish guy, and he being a tall, black man, I let it go after a while and just let those who chose to do so call my Ron. The rest just called me that a--h--- in room 26.. ;-)
The wife and I (we're Malcohm & Jennifer)owned a home for 13 years on the other side of town. The neighbor that lived nex door the entire time referred to my wife as 'Sugar' and called me 'Michael' for the first year or so... after that ( I guess he thought we were getting to be good friends) started calling me 'Mike'. This went on the entire time we were living there!We painted 'Mike " Sugga' on the mailbox in the eighth year...
Randy- Ron Glass was also on the much more recent 'Firefly' series and in the following movie 'Serenity'. It made a lot of sci-fi fans sad when that got cancelled. Pretty cool soundtrack too.
(There's Ron at about 30 seconds. A little grayer than in his Barney Miller days.)
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I've been called so many different things in 50 years it no longer phases.... ok some of the pet names the ex wives have for me are a little rough. ----------
The Original Downtown Philadelphia Fatman... Accept No substitutes!
My last name is Chinn, not Chin!!!!!!!! I'm not Chinese or any other Asian background.
All my life, I've been asked "are you Chinese?" by approximately 1 of 4 people I meet.
I've had my name misspelled at work, school, and even on the card the ringgirl toted around the floor as I stepped up for a round at the world championships of another hobby of mine..... I still have that ring card tacked to the garage wall. (no, I'm not a boxer, I used to fly freestyle model airplane aerobatics)
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My name's Gene (short for Eugene). On forums I write it as gene. I don't know why, and I don't care how other people write it.
On a couple of other forums, I have a chimpanzee as an avatar. I HATE it when people refer to it as a monkey!! There's a BIG difference between monkeys and apes.
My name is Richard, but my name is NOT Dick! Why would somebody with a great name like Richard allow anybody to call them Dick? I've never understood that...
[predicting that rash of folks will now start calling me "Dick Davis"]
Yo Rick-D people calling you Dick lucky your last name is Davis,,beleive it or not one of our local MEMBERS of parliment has your Lovely name Richard,,but it just don't sound right when you say his name with his Sirname RICHARD FACE how lucky is he,,yep you got it Right we all call Him DICK FACE..i only Hope he never names his Daughter Pissonya..
When I was young I decided I didn't like Andy: I wanted to be called Andrew - I imagined that Andy was wrong for a grown man; I don't know why - my parents were Andy Williams fans. Most of my friends always called me Andy, but I never got angry about it - I just learned to ignore it. Now I really don't care whether I'm called Andrew or Andy, but all my friends call me Andrew! ---------- Kinda hot in these rhinos!
My name is Michael. I always introduce myself as Mick. Some people, many months later, still can't get that in their head and call me Mike. That hacks me off.
EDIT: @ The Goth: is your first name The? ---------- YouTube SlimHarpMick
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My first name is monosyllabic. Hard to screw up. I forgive when it's spelled with one 'd' instead of two. My last name is NOT a color-although it was my grandmother who added the 'e' to the end when she married my grandfather because she didn't like having a color for a last name. I grew up being called Mr. Green Jeans. Nothing fazes me now. ---------- Todd L Greene. V.P.
