I blame you and quester.
Let me go run a bath.
Well, my days of not taking you seriously are certainly coming to a middle.
Mal ,'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
Natter 32 Flavors and Then Some
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
§ ita § - Feb 04, 2005 6:06:05 pm PST #4164 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
quester - Feb 04, 2005 6:07:43 pm PST #4165 of 10002
Danger is my middle name, only I spell it R. u. t. h. - Tina Belcher.
Sorry! A thousand pardons, oh shiny, lethal one!
sarameg - Feb 04, 2005 6:15:58 pm PST #4166 of 10002
I do not fear the ita.
A continent helps. Also, she'd pity my weaklingness.
Good bath.
Good night.
Jesse - Feb 04, 2005 6:16:21 pm PST #4167 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I got weighed today, and it was Not Pretty. I should be thinking gym. Instead, I just ate Wise Onion Rings.
And you people talking about working on the weekend and UPS remind me that I never got an overnight package I was expecting. Huh. I guess I won't work this weekend?
There was something else I meant to comment on, I'm sure, but I seem to be kind of drunk.
Jesse - Feb 04, 2005 6:18:29 pm PST #4168 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Oh yeah. That's what it was: People's names got screwy on their way here, between "making it easier," converting from different alphabets, and etc. Also, "Ellis Island" is shorthand for US immigration. I'm not that upset with people who say their family name changed "at Ellis Island," even if they're wrong.
FYI.
sarameg - Feb 04, 2005 6:21:08 pm PST #4169 of 10002
Hee, Jesse.
( I lied.)
My grandmother and her parents really did go through Ellis. (I'm going there next time I visit you.) My grandfather as well, but I don't know when and he had an incredibly common name. And apparently, it was made up in Sweden, not here.
tommyrot - Feb 04, 2005 6:21:21 pm PST #4170 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Ellis Island is in our hearts, and we carry it with us wherever we go.
Unless we're Native American. Or a few other exceptions....
Jesse - Feb 04, 2005 6:23:45 pm PST #4171 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
As far as I know, none of my family went through Ellis (either too soon or too late), and there are a lot of original-country names still, as far as I can tell.
sarameg - Feb 04, 2005 6:27:12 pm PST #4172 of 10002
Be glad. I got called down to the office so many times when it wasn't me but another Sara Lastname. And the thing is? Lastname is NOT common where I grew up. Garcia, sure. Lastname? No.
I'll bet half of Sweden has Lastname. It was popular when they had to go from the whole Daddottier/son to one patrymn/that word.
quester - Feb 04, 2005 6:27:19 pm PST #4173 of 10002
Danger is my middle name, only I spell it R. u. t. h. - Tina Belcher.
I think it actually was someone on Ellis Island that shortened my Hungarian grandfather's name from Schmelzer to Smeller. My mother made him change it to Sheller before she would marry him. I'm not exactly sure of the correct spelling of the original name, but my father's entire family are Smellers and I'm pretty sure it wasn't their idea.