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04-07-2010, 01:20 PM
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What the hell kind of a name is this
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04-07-2010, 02:20 PM
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Could be worse:
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= Si Opus Quadratum vis, angulos praecidere noli. =
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04-07-2010, 02:37 PM
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I interviewed a guy who's first name was ****head. Pronounced Shi-Theed.
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Why do they call it "Common Sense" when it is so rare?
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04-07-2010, 03:14 PM
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My mother was a teacher when the large numbers of Vietnamese refugees were being settled here. Many had the name "Phuc" and insisted on it being pronounced correctly. Took months of patient counseling by (Vietnamese) transition people to get them to change either the name or the pronunciation.
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04-08-2010, 06:57 AM
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Gunner,
When I was doing my time in Korea I visited several of the Asian countries and islands and it takes a while to adjust to their names and pronunciations. At least it did for me. I missed Vietnam by about 8 hours as I was at the airport in Seoul waiting for the plane to fly me down there when they found another person in the states with my clearances and specialties. I did not want to go there as that would have been a forced extension of my 3 years to 5 years.
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04-08-2010, 08:47 AM
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Early in my Air Force career, I was an instructor in a pilot training squadron. The squadron had about 120 mostly lieutenant instructors overseeing about 240 mostly lieutenant student pilots. A single lieutenant colonel commanded the unit. Needless to say, there were lots of us lieutenants that he didn't know well. Consequently, if anyone encountered him walking down the hall, they'd see his eyes go the nametag sewn prominently on their flight suit. He'd then say something like, "How you doing there (pause to read nametag) Smith." .... One day he encountered a friend of Polish descent whose last name was Szczur. It's pronounced like Ceasar. My friend chuckled as he retold the story. As they walked toward each other, the colonel smiled and said, "How's it going there ..... (brow furrows as he struggles to figure out how to say the name) ..... lieutenant." I don't know if he ever learned how to say that name.
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Cheetah tribute completed 2021 (TommysCars.Weebly.com)
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04-08-2010, 08:55 AM
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I used to work for a Credit Card company. There was a Vietnamese customer that would call in regularly on his account. His name was Phuc Mei. (yes, the last name was pronounced ME). He was adamant that everyone that he talked to use his full name. Any time you said it, he would just howl with laughter.
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04-08-2010, 09:04 AM
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"Wojeihowicz... it's spelled just like it sounds." 
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04-08-2010, 09:08 AM
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I'm in the process of moving to the Northern suburbs of Houston. In a nearby town named Atascocita is a Vietnamese restaurant named Pho King. No $hit, that's the name. I can see it now, telling the wife "Let's go to that Pho King place and get some Pho King food." After the meal, "Damn, that was some good Pho King food, I'm Pho King full...." The possibilities are endless.....and yes, I am easily amused.....  |
04-08-2010, 10:33 AM
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Originally Posted by 767Jockey
I'm in the process of moving to the Northern suburbs of Houston. In a nearby town named Atascocita is a Vietnamese restaurant named Pho King. No $hit, that's the name. I can see it now, telling the wife "Let's go to that Pho King place and get some Pho King food." After the meal, "Damn, that was some good Pho King food, I'm Pho King full...." The possibilities are endless.....and yes, I am easily amused..... |
Pho is good soup! The places that serve it around here don't have "king" in their names though. |
04-08-2010, 10:36 AM
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When I was in junior high, there was a regular substitute teacher named Mrs. Calmanor. Her pronunciation of her last name was "cow-manure".  |
04-08-2010, 11:11 AM
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"Wojeihowicz... it's spelled just like it sounds." |
Gunner,
Wasn't he a detective on the old Barney Miller show?
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04-08-2010, 11:26 AM
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Yeah, Wojo... I miss that show.
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04-08-2010, 11:54 AM
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Quote:
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I'm in the process of moving to the Northern suburbs of Houston. In a nearby town named Atascocita is a Vietnamese restaurant named Pho King. No $hit, that's the name. I can see it now, telling the wife "Let's go to that Pho King place and get some Pho King food." After the meal, "Damn, that was some good Pho King food, I'm Pho King full...." The possibilities are endless.....and yes, I am easily amused..... |
There used to be a Falking vodka too. A good drink at Pho King!  |
04-08-2010, 12:03 PM
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We had an Asian restaurant in Tujunga called the "Poo Ping Palace".
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04-08-2010, 02:28 PM
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$hitty food, no doubt..... |
04-08-2010, 02:48 PM
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Yeah, Wojo... I miss that show.
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04-09-2010, 05:57 AM
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I did bank interfaces for a couple of years and there was a customer named Richard Head.
At first the sales guy thought it was a joke, but the guy actually came to the engineering building to look at two towers his company had purchased. His business cards and other presented information had him as Richard Head or Mr. Head, but my boos called him Dick.
So we are in a class 1000 clean room running a test and the technician is *****ing about something. On the other side of the glass is Dick and Dave ( our supervisor ). The audio was not very good and the tech calls the guy he was *****ing about a Dick Head...the guy standing next to Dave pushes the button on the intercom and askes "what?"
My boss had to immediately excuse himself to go laugh.
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04-09-2010, 12:51 PM
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We have a chinese resteraunt up the street. The name is China C[insert picture of a wok]K
And yes, it looks like China Cok. So that's what we all called it. That is, until one day while driving with my 7 year old and he asked if we could get some China Cok. Not so damn funny when a 7 year old says it. 
Mike
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04-09-2010, 11:57 PM
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There was an Indian kid in high school named Assan Bhutt. I also know a super hot looking lady from Martinique named Dumy. The first time I met her I asked her name and I almost choked when she looked me in the eye and said "Do me". I managed to recover enough to tell her she should at least tell me her name first. We still laugh about that whenever we meet.
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