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I have a few old copies of Reader's Digest, which I've been re-reading recently. Just this morning, I started reading one from June of 1984.
One contributor, to the Campus Comedy feature, was named Hugo I. Wiener.
Although it's not uncommon for contributors to include their middle initial, I wonder if Huge old Hugo did so to make the funniness of his name not quite as obvious.
I know someone whose maiden name was Martini; she was first introduced to her husband by a lady by the name of Champagne
"For a musician, the SNES sound engine is like using Crayola Crayons. Nobuo Uematsu used Crayola Crayons to paint the Sistine Chapel." - Jeremy Jahns (re: "Dancing Mad") "The difference between an amateur and a master is that the master has failed way more times." - JoCat "Thinking is difficult, therefore let the herd pronounce judgment!" ~ Carl Jung "There's burning bridges, and then there's the lake just to fill it with gasoline." - Wiccy, reddit "Retail is a cruel master, and could very well be the most educational time of many people's lives, in its own twisted way." - me "Love keeps her in the air when she oughta fall down...tell you she's hurtin' 'fore she keens...makes her a home." - Capt. Malcolm Reynolds, "Serenity" (2005) Acts of Gord – Read it, Learn it, Love it!
"Our psychic powers only work if the customer has a mind to read." - me
Had two in one day on Friday. Mr Manlove, and yes, he was married, and Mr Mycock, first name Roger. With some names you have to wonder if their parents actually liked kids, and how the hell they survived school.
I once had a semi-regular customer whose loyalty card read "Prof. J. Moriarty". I spent the rest of my time with that company on the lookout for her nemesis S. Holmes - without success
Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read. -Groucho Marx
There was a "Dick Sweat" As a weather man in lower new hampshire when I was a kid. Though my favorite was probably the last name Cakebread that I caught off a credit card once.
BrenDAnn's post just reminded me of a law firm that was in a building where I was the parking garage manager around 20 years ago; [Name], [Name], Waldo, & Hiscock. (Pronounced "hiss", of course!)
ETA: On a whim, I just Googled the law firm name, which triggered a memory.
The firm had dropped Waldo and his, well you know, in about 1981, two years before I even started with the parking company, and around six years before I started at that location.
In the early '80's, I was a delivery driver for a blueprinting company, and that firm was one of our fairly regular customers. I now recall our company dispatcher (in his '50's at the time, OLD!), chuckling at Waldo and his, well.....
Mike
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