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<blockquote data-quote="donna723" data-source="post: 196836" data-attributes="member: 1883"><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #000000">OK, Ive gotta tell you this one, but it goes back a looong time. And I hope it doesnt offend anyone but please bear in mind that this happened over eighty years ago!</span></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">My dad, born in 1909, was the oldest of six kids. There was a big age difference and the older ones were already teenagers when the youngest ones were born. My aunt (who is now 86 and the only one still living) was the youngest daughter. My grandpa decided to name her after two of his sisters, both of whom had absolutely hideous first names! Well call them "B" and "L" because shed kill me if I told! Her middle name isnt quite as bad as her first name but both are just awful. Her older siblings absolutely refused to call her by either one of those horrible names and gave her the nickname T.. the day she was born, and she is still called T.. 86 years later. </span></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Her parents took pity on her and on anything official they always used her middle name "L", which wasnt quite as bad. And when she was six, they registered her for school as "L", her real middle name. This was the same strict parochial school that all of her siblings had gone to. But the trouble was, she had no earthly idea that she had any other name besides T..! Its what she had been called all her life and no one had ever told her that it wasnt her real name! </span></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #000000">So picture this cute little six year old sitting in class on her very first day of first grade in Catholic school the roll was being called (by first names only) by the teacher, one of the old-timey school teacher nuns that wore the black habits and carried rulers. When the teacher got to her name, she called out L? and of course she just sat there because <em>her</em> name was T... Growing a little annoyed, the teacher moved to the front of the row she was in, stared right at her and said again, a little louder ..<em>L?</em>. And my aunt looked innocently around the room, waiting for someone to answer. Really mad now, the teacher hovered right over her desk, glaring down at her and yelled <strong><em>"L..!"</em></strong> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #000000">And my aunt, using the neat vocabulary she had picked up from her older brothers, looked up at her and said, <em><strong>Well, who the <u>He!!</u> is "L"???</strong></em>. And I will leave the rest to your imagination ...</span></span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="donna723, post: 196836, member: 1883"] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3][COLOR=#000000]OK, Ive gotta tell you this one, but it goes back a looong time. And I hope it doesnt offend anyone but please bear in mind that this happened over eighty years ago![/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [SIZE=3][COLOR=#000000][FONT=Times New Roman]My dad, born in 1909, was the oldest of six kids. There was a big age difference and the older ones were already teenagers when the youngest ones were born. My aunt (who is now 86 and the only one still living) was the youngest daughter. My grandpa decided to name her after two of his sisters, both of whom had absolutely hideous first names! Well call them "B" and "L" because shed kill me if I told! Her middle name isnt quite as bad as her first name but both are just awful. Her older siblings absolutely refused to call her by either one of those horrible names and gave her the nickname T.. the day she was born, and she is still called T.. 86 years later. [/FONT][/COLOR][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][COLOR=#000000][FONT=Times New Roman]Her parents took pity on her and on anything official they always used her middle name "L", which wasnt quite as bad. And when she was six, they registered her for school as "L", her real middle name. This was the same strict parochial school that all of her siblings had gone to. But the trouble was, she had no earthly idea that she had any other name besides T..! Its what she had been called all her life and no one had ever told her that it wasnt her real name! [/FONT][/COLOR][/SIZE] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3][COLOR=#000000]So picture this cute little six year old sitting in class on her very first day of first grade in Catholic school the roll was being called (by first names only) by the teacher, one of the old-timey school teacher nuns that wore the black habits and carried rulers. When the teacher got to her name, she called out L? and of course she just sat there because [I]her[/I] name was T... Growing a little annoyed, the teacher moved to the front of the row she was in, stared right at her and said again, a little louder ..[I]L?[/I]. And my aunt looked innocently around the room, waiting for someone to answer. Really mad now, the teacher hovered right over her desk, glaring down at her and yelled [B][I]"L..!"[/I][/B] [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3][COLOR=#000000]And my aunt, using the neat vocabulary she had picked up from her older brothers, looked up at her and said, [I][B]Well, who the [U]He!![/U] is "L"???[/B][/I]. And I will leave the rest to your imagination ...[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [/QUOTE]
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