Posted on 09/13/2009 4:50:10 PM PDT by HorowitzianConservative
I distinctly remember one day when I was in the seventh grade and my father and I both had an appointment with a new dentist. (We'd recently moved back to Indiana after living in California for many years and had to find a new family dentist.)
So we went to a dentist whose name I now mercifully forget. Both my Dad and I were a bit put off by several things. First was the sloppy dental hygienist who left us both with sore gums. Second was when the dentist tried to encourage my Dad to stop the orthodontics treatment I had already started because apparently there were cheaper ways to straighten my teeth. (Y'know, ways that this dentist could do to make a little more money for himself.)
But the deathblow to the Swindle family selecting this guy as our family dentist came when he asked my Dad this, "So what do you do for a living? Not a lawyer or a used car salesman are you?"
As my Dad drove me back to school he explained to me one of those lessons that has stuck with me ever since: "As soon as someone makes fun of the last name it immediately identifies them as a jerk."
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Happened a long time ago.
David Swindle should lighten up.
Bill Maher...he's got lifeless eyes. Black eyes. Like a doll's eyes. When he comes at ya, doesn't seem to be living... until he bites ya, and those black eyes roll over white and then... ah then you hear that terrible high-pitched screamin'
Had the misfortune of having my last name used as company email, I can’t tell you the “do you know what your email spells?”. Yes, an angry rooster, what of it?
You have to have a sense of humor and I don’t think those people are being jerks by pointing out something somewhat humorous.
That being said, Bill Maher has plenty of reasons to be seen as a jerk with no soul.
Absolutely right. This guy is too touchy about his name.
Get over it Dave.
Man... doesn’t this guy know he can legally change his name?
I’m guessing Mr. Swindle was never in the military.
the lastest on Drudge about Maher...
http://www.eyeblast.tv/public/video.aspx?v=Gd8zqGqGuz
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