Ahh me old uncas and them are but a fading glow in the distance...
Posted on 07/26/2017 1:13:44 PM PDT by sodpoodle
You spelled that incorrectly
Oh, her poor husband... he always reminded me of the typical Republican congressman.
“Some surnames need to go extinct.
Such as ‘Clinton’ and ‘Obama’......................”
Don’t forget “Bush”
In Rick Atkinson’s WW2 trilogy, during the north Africa campaign there was a British regiment that was very uneasy about their regimental commanders surname....”Pine-Coffin”.
And of course, the “l” in Flucker is silent.
Like ‘Kennedy’, there’s just too damn many of them!...................
Former co-worker’s maiden name was Flake.
But Bertie Wooster is a GREAT character.
The last name Hitler is illegal in Germany. He had some relatives who changed their last name but they decided to not have any children so that the family would die out.
Not a crisis...everybody is going to have the surname muhammad real soon now anyway. Plus, it’ll be your given name as well. Or surname “islam”. Take your pick.
You can hardly find Bush anymore. What with all these women getting Brazilians.
There was a once-prominent and well respected family in the county where I grew up with the surname Fagg. The last one to my knowledge who still goes by that spelling died a couple of decades ago. There are male descendants but it’s Fogg now. On a related note, there is a wealthy family in SC by the name of Gay. They haven’t changed their name that I’m aware.
I love Hyacinth!
as is our (AZ) elected representative :(
Brazillions of women getting Brazilians?
Or the prominent Hogg family of Texas.
Running back Joe Don Looney was the second perso n I encountered with that surname. A grade school classmate had Percy tacked up front, kid grew up tough.
Ahh me old uncas and them are but a fading glow in the distance...
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