Hey, smh...

**paulw** · Jan 10th, 2001, 06:25 AM

Haven't 'spoken' to you in ages...

...and as Katie now has her own thread, I thought it was only fair. So, how's it going?

Cheers,

P.

**paulw** · Jan 10th, 2001, 12:16 PM

I dunno. You post a thread and have to reply to it yourself. Just to keep it alive <sigh>

smh....WHERE ARE YOU???

Cheers,

P.

**smh** · Jan 10th, 2001, 04:24 PM

Sorry,

I have a deadline coming up very soon, so I have actually been doing some work. I have only been posting like once or twice a day lately. And, my intern is needed more and more of my time each day with all the new little things he wants to learn. How are you?

**paulw** · Jan 10th, 2001, 08:24 PM

Very well. All the better for knowing you are OK. Post me a thread when you are ready to talk. Not fair to let katie get ALL the plaudits...

P.

**Ianpbaker** · Jan 11th, 2001, 03:44 AM

you old smoothie paul

**paulw** · Jan 11th, 2001, 04:07 AM

Oi! less of the old...

Cheers,

P.

**smh** · Jan 11th, 2001, 09:18 AM

It's bright and early in the morning, and I will be around for a while. I kicked some tail yesterday with my project, so I'm going to slow down a bit today. So, I will have time to talk today, PaulW.

**paulw** · Jan 11th, 2001, 09:31 AM

Sadly I am really busy

Tomorrow might be good. But I will keep an eye on this thread just to make sure we don't lose contact again...) I can't afford to lose any friends. I've got virtually none - or should that be "all my friends are virtual..."

Bit of a tortured joke there, but it'll have to do...

Cheers,

P.

**smh** · Jan 11th, 2001, 09:34 AM

Ok, catch me tomorrow. It's Friday tomorrow, so no one really works around here tomorrow. Everyone just talks about what they are going to do on the weekend.

smh

**paulw** · Jan 11th, 2001, 11:21 AM

smh. Not quite as busy as earlier. If you are bored, you really ought to try out the Post Race, there is some post-mordernist humour going on in there that is quite amusing.

BTW What is your name? Or do I have to stick with smh? and how do you say that anyway?

Cheers,

P.

**smh** · Jan 11th, 2001, 11:30 AM

My name is Shanea. You pronouce that as 'Shane''uh'. We'll leave it at that. I'll have to check out the post race.

**paulw** · Jan 12th, 2001, 04:38 AM

That is nice. Unusual though. Bit more exotic than Paul...

P.

**smh** · Jan 12th, 2001, 09:28 AM

My parents thought that I was going to be a boy until I was born , so they had to make an adjustment to 'Shane'. Having an unusual name is a pain sometimes though. Not many people can say my name right. My current boss didn't get my name right for about 2 months when I started working here.

**paulw** · Jan 12th, 2001, 09:38 AM

At least your boss knows your name - I've been here ten months and... <sob>

P.

**smh** · Jan 12th, 2001, 09:46 AM

Well, I am one of the five programmers here, so if he didn't know my name, he would have to have the worst memory ever. We are hiring another programmer though, so we will make it to six of us.

**paulw** · Jan 12th, 2001, 09:57 AM

One of six eh? Count yourself lucky, I am one of seven - three brothers and three sisters, so I was used to having my name forgotten. My mum usually addressed me:- "Nick, er, Marcus, I mean Paul..." It was even worse for my younger brother Matthew...

Cheers,

P.

**smh** · Jan 12th, 2001, 10:00 AM

At home, I was one of four...four girls that is. Mornings were very hectic. And to top it all off, my parents were really cruel. They named my older sister Shawna. So, half the time while I was in high school, I was called Shawna instead of Shanea.

**paulw** · Jan 12th, 2001, 10:31 AM

Cruel. Parents can be very cruel...

P.

Jan 12th, 2001, 10:34 AM

Coulda been worse. In grade school I sat next to a girl
named Ginger.

Yep, Mr. & Mrs. Snap sure knew what THEY were doing.

**barrk** · Jan 12th, 2001, 10:35 AM

My husband and I joked about naming our daughter Candice but we thought the kids would nick-name her Candy...Candy Barr is just too cruel!

**smh** · Jan 12th, 2001, 10:38 AM

My son's initials are BMW, so now I can tell everyone that I have a BMW. (By the way, we didn't pay attention to his initials until my fiance's mom said something about it. Didn't plan that.)

**barrk** · Jan 12th, 2001, 10:40 AM

That's cute! It should make for great monograms!

**paulw** · Jan 12th, 2001, 11:23 AM

Yeah, initials are IMMPORTANT. we were considering Sophie Olivia until we wrote it down...

Sophie
Olivia
Whitfield

...not a great idea.

P.

Jan 12th, 2001, 11:34 AM

Could be worse. I worked for the Houston Symphony for a
time. One of the founding members was the unfortunate
daughter of James Hogg.

He named her Ima.

http://www.famoustexans.com/imahogg.htm

**Gaffer** · Jan 12th, 2001, 11:40 AM

My surname being Guy, me an the better half are considering "Whadda" as a first name...

**smh** · Jan 12th, 2001, 11:45 AM

I can't believe he named her IMA HOGG! I bet she went through a lot of counselling for that!

OK, so my unusual name is not that bad...

Jan 12th, 2001, 11:45 AM

Could do worse. I knew a old guy in Nashville whose last
name was Creamcheese.

We all called him Phil.

Turned out, his first name was Philadelphia. I found that
out at his funeral.

**smh** · Jan 12th, 2001, 11:50 AM

You've got to wonder why people name their children like that. Did they really hate their kid or what?

**barrk** · Jan 12th, 2001, 12:09 PM

Originally posted by Gaffer
My surname being Guy, me an the better half are considering "Whadda" as a first name...

A son might not mind but..your daughter......?

**smh** · Jan 12th, 2001, 12:11 PM

You don't want to confuse the daughter like that.

**smh** · Jan 12th, 2001, 12:12 PM

But, your daughter could say that she's just one of the 'Guys'.

**barrk** · Jan 12th, 2001, 12:12 PM

What is your son's name Shanea? Did you go the more traditional route....I didn't I wanted names that were a little less common over here. My son likes being the only Ian in the school.

**barrk** · Jan 12th, 2001, 12:13 PM

Originally posted by smh
But, your daughter could say that she's just one of the 'Guys'.

Hehe

**smh** · Jan 12th, 2001, 12:16 PM

Brendan Michael We....

(Rather not put his full name out there...there's some strange people these days.)

**smh** · Jan 12th, 2001, 12:16 PM

His middle name is his daddy's first name.

**barrk** · Jan 12th, 2001, 12:19 PM

Brendan is a cool name....not many of them around. He'll probably thank you for it later...Ian did.

**smh** · Jan 12th, 2001, 12:22 PM

I wanted to name him Brenner, and his dad wanted to name him Brandon. We had to compromise. I knew a guy named Brandon that I didn't like much. He's going to hate us when he finds out what his name means though. Brendan means "Smelly Hair".

**barrk** · Jan 12th, 2001, 12:26 PM

Are you serious? I wouldn't broadcast that if I were you...poor kid!

**smh** · Jan 12th, 2001, 12:32 PM

Well, my soon-to-be mother-in-law told everyone in the family at the hospital right after he was born, so I don't think it would be a surprise to anyone. We went to Barnes and Noble after I got out of the hospital to get one of those "Babies and Year 1" books, because since I was on bedrest for a while and he was born 4 weeks early, I hadn't picked one up yet. WHile we were there, we checked all of the baby names book to see if she was right, and only about 50% of them had that meaning, so I will have to make sure that he sees one of them that doesn't.

**barrk** · Jan 12th, 2001, 12:35 PM

Brendan is a great name anyway....It's how he wears the name that matters not what some book says!

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