Spike ,'Selfless'
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I think I would have said "Winchester Mystery House,"
I can't believe I left that one off...I got that more in California, but sometimes here.
think it's hysterical to ask whether I'm related to someone who's ethnicity I do not seem to share.
My sister's last name is Pendergrass, and last century people would always ask "Any relation to Teddy?" She'd say "Maybe?" which wasn't the reaction they were looking for.
Right? I used to say, "I wish."
Yeah, there are a whole lot of people in the world who still think "any relation to Jimi?" is an original line.
I have a 4-letter German last name in a goddamn German town, and I cannot begin to tell you how many people get it wrong. I pretty much think people are just stupid.
My company's name is BigBoss's name, followed by "Books" -- like "John Smith Books Co." And when I tell it to people, they go "Whuuuuuut?" and I say "[John], like the name, [Smith], like the name, Books, like the things you read." And then they suddenly get it.
Again, I'ma go with -- people. stupid.
I have a very common last name that was prominent several years ago because at least one famous person had that last name. Said famous person is White. I am not.
As a teenager, I kind of got fed up with the way one joker asked, "any relation?" - with a smirk - (as if I had *never* heard that joke ever before) that I just said to him, "I suspect his ancestors probably owned mine."
And that was that.
Books, like the things you read.
Optimism!
I have to spell "Ginger" more often than you'd imagine, even after I say, "Like the spice. Like ginger snaps, gingerbread, ginger ale."
So far one person has said "As in the brothers in Supernatural?" And that was a Colombian hotel desk clerk.
Which reminds me, I need to call Dean the technical support guy for a favour today. It's much lamer to ask someone based on their *first* name, but tech support Dean is indeed a fan of the Winchesters, so dork points scored there.
I have to spell "Ginger" more often than you'd imagine, even after I say, "Like the spice. Like ginger snaps, gingerbread, ginger ale."
Do they all think of the Duggars and their child with the heinous name "Jingur"?
"I suspect his ancestors probably owned mine."
Snap.
My sister and I loosely plan to visit our ancestral clan home on our father's side in Scotland at some time, and plead kinship based on either blood or or ownership. We did use to wear the tartan from time to time.