[Magdalen] My favorite name...recently
Charles Wohlers
chadwohl at satucket.com
Wed Mar 7 03:42:05 UTC 2018
Well, I just now saw that today (town meeting day in Vermont), one Infinite
Culcleasure was defeated in his bid to become Burlington's next mayor.
Chad Wohlers
Woodbury, VT USA
chadwohl at satucket.com
-----Original Message-----
From: Grace Cangialosi
Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2018 9:49 PM
To: magdalen at herberthouse.org
Subject: Re: [Magdalen] My favorite name...recently
One of the more unfortunate names I knew of was that of a junior high
principal early in my teaching career. Stanley Dickoff. Junior high
principal...can you imagine??!
> On Mar 6, 2018, at 6:51 PM, Scott Knitter <scottknitter at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> One should be thankful one doesn't live in Westphalia, Michigan, where
> everyone is named Koenigsknecht, Thelen, or Armbrustmacher.
>
> The first name I listed is often pronounced "K-13." :) Or massacred as
> "cunn-ISH-connect."
>
>> On Tue, Mar 6, 2018 at 5:44 PM, Grace Cangialosi <gracecan at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> One of the columnists in the Washington used to do s column from time in
>> which he would give examples of people with perfect names for their
>> occupations. Some were pretty funny. The only one I can remember offhand
>> right now was Dr. Shue, pronounced “Shoo-ee.” He was, of course, a
>> podiatrist.
>>
>>> On Mar 6, 2018, at 5:21 PM, Allan Carr <allanc25 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> A podiatrist in town is named Dr. Payne. Pleasant fellow. I wonder what
>> kind of ribbing he got in school.
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Scott R. Knitter
> Edgewater, Chicago, Illinois USA
More information about the Magdalen
mailing list