From: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org (alloy-digest) To: alloy-digest@smoe.org Subject: alloy-digest V12 #19 Reply-To: alloy@smoe.org Sender: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk X-To-Unsubscribe: Send mail to "alloy-digest-request@smoe.org" X-To-Unsubscribe: with "unsubscribe" as the body. alloy-digest Thursday, February 1 2007 Volume 12 : Number 019 Today's Subjects: ----------------- RE: Alloy: I'm back! :^) What's my name...? ["Rochelle" Subject: RE: Alloy: I'm back! :^) What's my name...? Mark, She was, um, of the other persuasion, so being put with the boys would have done nothing for her! Rochelle - -----Original Message----- From: owner-alloy@smoe.org [mailto:owner-alloy@smoe.org] On Behalf Of CJMark@aol.com Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2007 9:02 PM To: alloy@smoe.org Subject: Re: Alloy: I'm back! :^) What's my name...? Hey Rochelle.. Was that really such a BAD thing for Dale?? :-D Glad to have you back.. Kara.. ! Mark In a message dated 1/30/07 5:59:40 PM, registrations@nonfatcat.com writes: > Lastly, I had a friend in college named Dale. Dale is a girl, and marked > her dorm application as such. The powers that be at our college assumed she > must have made a mistake and put her in the boys dorm... ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 06:54:31 -0500 From: "Rochelle" Subject: RE: RE: Alloy: I'm back! :^) Hello my name is... Kara, The name my mom liked was Hawaiian. She had a friend by that name in school, but that doesn't mean it would have been good for her daughter (me!). I agree about being respectful with names. I even extend it to babies. I learned very early that you can easily not know a baby's gender and make a big blunder to the mom. To avoid that, I will say, "What's this little person's name?" and HOPE that the name is clearly gender specific (of course, Dana sounds like a girl, but could be a boy...). You mention your surname. It's a small world, but my surname is also Scottish - Lawhead. I hate that name and don't miss it at all (being married and having my husband's name, I mean). Yep, I remember "It's Pat." Funny you mention that as my husband and I were talking about it last week. There was someone on American Idol who looked like him/her. My husband and I were very careful to give our girls feminine names. I think we succeeded with Cassandra and Sabrina. No mistaking those. Whew! Who knew we'd get so much mileage from names? ; ) Rochelle - -----Original Message----- From: owner-alloy@smoe.org [mailto:owner-alloy@smoe.org] On Behalf Of J. Kara Laidlaw Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2007 10:36 PM To: alloy@smoe.org Subject: OT: RE: Alloy: I'm back! :^) Hello my name is... Rochelle caused me to shake my head at how some people don't even TRY to get a person's name right when she wrote, > From: "Rochelle" > Date: 2007/01/30 Tue PM 07:26:39 CST > To: > Subject: RE: RE: Alloy: I'm back! :^) What's my name...? > > > Kara, > > I feel your pain. Many (most?) people haven't heard the name 'Rochelle' and > I can't tell you how many mispronunciations I've heard ("Michelle," > "Rachel," "Richelle"). The misspellings are even worse. However, I love > having an unusual name. I think 'Kara' is very pretty. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Awww, thank you. :^) I think 'Rochelle' is a lovely name too, very poetic. :^D I'm always *so* careful to try and get people's names right, both spelling and pronunciation, 'cause like you, I know how it feels to have someone mangle it! Oyyyy. [rolling eyes] ;^)I believe that getting a person's name right is a sign to them that you respect them as a person, because their names are part of their identities, after all. :^) By the by, if I ever misspell anyone's name in a post, feel free to shoot me. ;^) With a water gun, of course! :P ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > As a side note, my mom wanted to name me Yana Leahlan (I don't even know how > to spell that!). Thank goodness my dad put his foot down about that : ) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Stomp! Hee hee! ;^)Hmmm, 'Yana' is a pretty cool name, I think, but the 'Leahlan'...is that Scottish? Or Irish maybe? If I may ask?? My surname, Laid- law, is Scottish, and I know there are a few other Scots around here. :^) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Lastly, I had a friend in college named Dale. Dale is a girl, and marked > her dorm application as such. The powers that be at our college assumed she > must have made a mistake and put her in the boys dorm... > > Rochelle ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Oh *man*! Well, one good thing, anyway: at least no one ever called me 'Karl', snicker snicker. Yet. ;^) I actually got to wondering if some people on the Dolby Forum were assuming that I was a guy...I managed to start a whole big, juicy, utterly befuddling topic about my considering installing Linux, and I briefly wondered if the fellas over there were only replying to me 'cause they thought I was a guy. Then I thought, "Nah, they're probably more open- minded than that!" At least, I HOPE they are...! ;^) Say, anyone remember those silly "I'm Pat!" sketches that Julia Sweeney used to do on Saturday Night Live? Of *course* you do! Ah, that whole 'undetermined gender' thing, hmmm. I sometimes wonder if it's better for people to have names that are distinctly one gender or the other. Oh well, that's enough philosophising out of me for one day...or week...or year, hee hee... :^) Peace and incurable silliness (my own!} ;^) Kara It's All About the Music. :^) ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 06:56:19 -0500 From: "Rochelle" Subject: RE: Alloy: I'm back! :^) What's my name...? OMG, that's funny! I don't know who Dale Bozzio is so I looked her up. My Dale is sooo not like this one. Short, rather masculine (but sweet and wonderful just the same, should she ever read this...) - -----Original Message----- From: owner-alloy@smoe.org [mailto:owner-alloy@smoe.org] On Behalf Of John McJunkin Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2007 11:42 PM To: alloy@smoe.org Subject: Re: Alloy: I'm back! :^) What's my name...? Was it Dale Bozzio, perchance? Just kidding. On Jan 30, 2007, at 7:01 PM, CJMark@aol.com wrote: > > Hey Rochelle.. > > Was that really such a BAD thing for Dale?? :-D > > Glad to have you back.. Kara.. ! > > Mark > > > In a message dated 1/30/07 5:59:40 PM, registrations@nonfatcat.com > writes: > > >> Lastly, I had a friend in college named Dale. Dale is a girl, and >> marked >> her dorm application as such. The powers that be at our college >> assumed > she >> must have made a mistake and put her in the boys dorm... ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 15:10:58 EST From: CJMark@aol.com Subject: Re: Alloy: I'm back! :^) What's my name...? You know.. sometimes you just can't win!! Mark In a message dated 1/31/07 3:52:59 AM, registrations@nonfatcat.com writes: > > Mark, > > She was, um, of the other persuasion, so being put with the boys would have > done nothing for her! > > Rochelle ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 14:18:04 -0800 (PST) From: Melissa Jordan Subject: Alloy: Are people digging the bonus podcast? I'm watching it right now - had a killer workday and couldn't sneak in any fun screentime until now. Really cool stuff. No spoilers from me today, since many haven't likely had a chance to tune in yet. On a totally different note, my pod o' coworkers and I are having lunch with futurist Andrew Zolli, who is one of our "Emerging Explorers" here at Geographic and the the curator of the Pop! Tech conference up in Maine every October. I intend to ask when we're all getting flying cars. ;) Cheers, Melissa http://merujo.blogspot.com - --------------------------------- Don't pick lemons. See all the new 2007 cars at Yahoo! Autos. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 18:48:51 -0800 (PST) From: Melissa Jordan Subject: Alloy: Dolby with a Scandahoovian Accent Norwegian singer/songwriter Sondre Lerche has recorded a cover of "Europa and the Pirate Twins" that may end up as a bonus track or on an EP at some point. Some nice words here, and the pleasant recognition of TMDR as a storyteller: http://www.laweekly.com/music/music/super-duper-sondre/15526/ Cheers, Melissa http://merujo.blogspot.com - --------------------------------- Now that's room service! Choose from over 150,000 hotels in 45,000 destinations on Yahoo! Travel to find your fit. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 18:52:13 -0800 (PST) From: Melissa Jordan Subject: Alloy: For those in the group with that sexy librarian thing going on... Here's a little t-shirt amusement for you: http://www.questionablecontent.net/merch.php (Don't worry about the URL there, btw - it's worksafe - and the merchandise is witty in a "too cool for school/Internet hipster-dweeb" way!) Cheers, Melissa http://merujo.blogspot.com - --------------------------------- Don't pick lemons. See all the new 2007 cars at Yahoo! Autos. ------------------------------ End of alloy-digest V12 #19 ***************************