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To: EEGator

His sur name was Wilingastowokowski and her’s was Jones


9 posted on 09/26/2012 11:54:17 AM PDT by bert ((K.E. N.P. N.C. +12 ..... Present failure and impending death yield irrational action))
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To: bert

Still unacceptable. He needs to turn in his Man Card.


14 posted on 09/26/2012 12:00:36 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: bert

“Wilingastowokowski”

Which means I fish on my side, you fish on your side and no one fishes in the middle!


26 posted on 09/26/2012 12:19:17 PM PDT by mdmathis6 (We have grieved the Holy Spirit, with our Dark hearts and dark minds turned against God!)
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To: bert; Red Badger
My brother's research finally settled the origin of our family name, when our paternal grandfather and his sister changed it. (Interestingly, their own father--my GGF--changed it after they did.)

He found record of the names on two successive US Censuses (ummm, censes?) which showed the transition from an utterly unspellable and unpronouncable East European surname to a more (but still ambiguously) pronounceable one from a bit further west.

I have since asked my East European friends how to pronounce the ancestral name and also what it meant. They invariably scratch their heads about the meaning, but they gave me pretty reliable guides to its pronounciation, of which I am the only one in the family capable of reproducing.

So all in all, "Badger" doesn't seem so bad.

≤}B^)

33 posted on 09/26/2012 12:37:48 PM PDT by Erasmus (Zwischen des Teufels und des tiefen, blauen Meers)
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To: bert

Geeze, try putting that on a mailing label or in any of those forms that require you put one letter in each of the boxes for your name.

He’s probably had to cut one up and tape more boxes so he can complete the form.

Voting must a bitch too.


37 posted on 09/26/2012 12:46:42 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously, you won't live through it anyway)
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