tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7529903.post115944917010183637..comments2024-03-07T11:39:09.758+11:00Comments on Will Type For Food: Murdering With a GrinTimThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10333303180015967125noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7529903.post-1160178190369557592006-10-07T09:43:00.000+10:002006-10-07T09:43:00.000+10:00A couple of months ago, I read 'The Portrait of Do...A couple of months ago, I read 'The Portrait of Dorian Gray' by Wilde - top stuff. He's not just a one-hit wonder! <BR/><BR/>So long as your sister and Ernest were gay (as in happy) about the whole thing, then that's alright.<BR/><BR/>According to word verification, my blog is called 'aeryl'.TimThttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10333303180015967125noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7529903.post-1160104349301845452006-10-06T13:12:00.000+10:002006-10-06T13:12:00.000+10:00My sister had a brief fling with someone called Ea...My sister had a brief fling with someone called Earnest<BR/><BR/>As I love Oscar Wilde I could not help making jokes about "The importance of Being Earnest" for the whole duration of it.<BR/><BR/>I have an Oscar(cranky fish) named after Oscar Wilde.... Maybe I should call him EarnestAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7529903.post-1159620167990995542006-09-30T22:42:00.000+10:002006-09-30T22:42:00.000+10:00It's a bit like the joke Oscar Wilde used in 'The ...It's a bit like the joke Oscar Wilde used in 'The Importance of Being Earnest'. A lot of the comedy is just confusion over everyone's names, and pretty much ALL of the names Wilde used in that play were 19th century homosexual jokes! There was Cousin 'Cecily', which apparently meant a young rent boy, and Earnest himself: his name pretty much just meant gay! <BR/><BR/>I wrote a joke play called something like 'Ernest Worthington Winthropp Stubbs-Simms Walthorpe Jones', which pretty much had the characters going around saying their names at one another. (They occasionally pulled pistols on one another and wore false moustaches, as well)TimThttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10333303180015967125noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7529903.post-1159616294974920902006-09-30T21:38:00.000+10:002006-09-30T21:38:00.000+10:00you know someone i work with used number two and I...you know someone i work with used number two and I actually started calling someone dave cause i thought thats what his name was<BR/><BR/>turns out it was peter<BR/><BR/>but i still call him daveAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7529903.post-1159588671313066382006-09-30T13:57:00.000+10:002006-09-30T13:57:00.000+10:00I do mostly 1) and 2). With 2) I vary it a bit. HE...I do mostly 1) and 2). <BR/><BR/>With 2) I vary it a bit. <BR/><BR/>HER: "Hi Tim."<BR/>TIM: "Hi Dave."<BR/>HER: "I'm not called Dave!"<BR/>TIM: "I'll just call you Bob, then. Easy to remember."<BR/><BR/>So you can usually make a joke and get out of it. <BR/><BR/>Then again, you want to be careful. If they're actually called Dave you might offend them ...TimThttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10333303180015967125noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7529903.post-1159585891726826142006-09-30T13:11:00.000+10:002006-09-30T13:11:00.000+10:00I have this same issue in the office i work in. Be...I have this same issue in the office i work in. Being Sys Admin you service the whole floor, so everyone knows your name....unfortunatley, while its possible to remember my name, just one name, its not possible for me to remember 150 names. So, I've developed some simple ways of getting around this, especially at the moment with all the old employees gone and a new bunch in whose names i have no interest in knowing because I too will be leaving soon.<BR/><BR/>1. Use "Mate" in place of name<BR/><BR/>eg "How's things Tim?"<BR/>"Good mate, and how are you?"<BR/><BR/>2. Call everyone "Dave"<BR/><BR/>eg "Hey Timmy"<BR/>"Hey Dave"<BR/><BR/>3. develop speech patterns which mean you can avoid using names and always look busy so you have a percieved excuse for not remembering names.<BR/><BR/>eg "Hi Tim"<BR/>"Hiiii!"<BR/><BR/>Works for me!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com