What's she arguing you about, Susan?

Well...it's obscure. We're debating the social composition of the officer class in Wellington's Peninsular War army and how promotion worked. She's saying mostly aristocratic and commissions and advancement were almost always by purchasing commissions and successive steps in rank. I'm saying that was true for socially prestigious regiments like the guards and most cavalry units, but in line infantry and artillery, the officers were more likely to be minor gentry or from the more educated/prestigious end of the growing middle class, and that over half of commissions weren't purchased but were instead awarded by recommendation, with promotion coming largely through seniority.

I'm aware that this is splitting hairs, but I'm confident in my research, you know? And it wasn't so much the importance of the detail as being dismissed and condescended to over it.

I'm aware that this is splitting hairs, but I'm confident in my research, you know? And it wasn't so much the importance of the detail as being dismissed and condescended to over it.

That sure as hell would do it for me.

Yay askye! Continued job~ma!

Aimee's hair looks great!

On the subject of names...Some of the interesting names that have appeared on my rosters are: Tigress, Merton, Rainbow, Doc, Buster, Phoenix, Kal, ShaQuilla, Sweetie and King James (his sisters were Queen Elizabeth and Princess Anne and his brother was Prince John...the mother expected us to call them by their full names).

One of my favorite stories of "almost" names was from a girl named Tiffanee. Her parents almost named her "Candi". Not that bad until you saw their last name was "Samples". All I could ever thing was she was destined for a career in exotic dancing.

Reading a little further down in the entry, I've discovered that Triumph's middle name is Perseverance.

a) We had a succession of cats named Retribution (Retro), Penance (Penny), Extreme Unction, and Legion (OK, still have him). I still think Retribution would be a fun name.

b) I know a white American military couple who adopted a baby girl from China and named her Mercy. I thought it was a pretty name until the wife told me it was because "God took mercy on her and let her come live in a Christian home." Elitist santimonious twits.

Legion

Huh. And here I was thinking something more along the lines of "French Foreign".

"God took mercy on her and let her come live in a Christian home."

Eww, eww, eww. A hundred times eww. Also, now going to look askance at the name.

I think Legion is the best cat name ever. ("My name is Legion, for we are many.")

I met a guy named "Sir" once. When we first saw his name on the roster, we puzzled over whether there was a random British knight attending or something, but it turned out his parents were just weird.

DH's co has done a lot to improve CS. now, they are specialized - and it helps that their customers are the police /fire etc. But they centralized the CS, hire some programmers in the CS dept that could do some fixing, trained others to do more advanced work, and have defined a Priority 1, P2, etc. and they have incentive programs when the list gets too long. The really big problem with the system, is that customers can set the priority of a call.

But the more interesting thing is why this happened. Of course, they depend on upgrades and repeat business. But more importantly, police talk. So if County police A grumbles about your stuff, county Police B looks much more critically at your stuff then they would have normally.

Or, as well-traveled as Raq's cat is, "Foreign Legion".

Friends had two girls, Elisabeth Grace and Katherine Faith. They adopted a little girl from China, and while they kept her first name, they added Abigail Hope. It's a nice little family theme. They're not particularly Christian. And one reason they went with attribute names is that he can't stand names "you can pick," like Fern, Rose, Petunia.

my body has betrayed me. At least another night in the brig. Apparently my belly is still slightly disdended (sp?) But I have reclaimed my crutches, so I can visit the loo on my own. Oh ya, and they took that horrid tube out of the nose, so I'm ok.