Poor unfortunate souls

[badseed1980]

The following names have come up on my bulk mailing list for this month at work:

Eugene Pocock
Dewey Kool
C. Jack Bark, M.D.
Herb Chow
Dong Quatch
Peter Dyke
Robert Failing
Theodore Coonrod
Irish Barnes

Comments

[wolf-kells.livejournal.com]

I used to go to college with a guy named John Dykehouse. Went to high school with a guy named Michael Hunt. (NO, I'm not kidding. The kid wouldn't let ANYONE call him 'Mike'.)

My mother knew a woman named Elkie Seltzer.

My stepmom went to school with a girl named April Showers.

If my family name hadn't been Americanized, my name would literally mean "Heather of the Fields".

[badseed1980.livejournal.com]

Elkie Seltzer?!?!?! Oh my lord...that's priceless.

[wolf-kells.livejournal.com]

Isn't it SCARY, though??? I don't know what possessed her parents ...

[book-of-pain.livejournal.com]

Just a side note: One of my nicknames is Ol' Koonrod. It was given to me by friends honoring my woodsmanship. Coonrod Pile was like the missing member of the three musketeers of frontiersmen. There was Daniel Boone, Davy Crockett and Coonrod Pile. Just hardly anyone knows who he was outside of Appalachia. He was also the great grandfather of WWI Medal of Honor winner Alvin C. York (like in the Gary Cooper movie).

One of my friends made me a shirt with "ol' Koonrod" across the back and she got the name a little wrong and it stuck.

[badseed1980.livejournal.com]

Oh man, that's a riot! What a nickname! Do you have a coonskin cap? :P

[book-of-pain.livejournal.com]

You know, yes, I actually do, and I got a fringed jacket this past Christmas. I wore the jacket every day through the cold months.

Knowing someone from Appalachia has broadened your horizons. Now you truly have friends of all types. Here's a obscure fact that you should know in case you ever have to defend my Southerness: The people of Appalachia stayed loyal to the Union during the Civil War. Lincoln asked for 1,000 recruits from the mountains and got 10,000. That's one of the reasons they call us the Volunteers.

[badseed1980.livejournal.com]

I've known people from Appalachia in the past. But you're the first with a coonskin cap! :)

[book-of-pain.livejournal.com]

I feel special then. I knew several people from Boston when I worked in this law firm back in the 20th Century. We became quite good friends once we learned to understand each other's language.

[badseed1980.livejournal.com]

Yeah, we Bostonians can be wicked haahhd to undastand!

[book-of-pain.livejournal.com]

S'are we uplandsters.

[meadmaker.livejournal.com]

I think I mentioned to you before that purpleyarrow and I attended a party with Richard Seaman. Yes, he went by the name Dick. He was one.

[badseed1980.livejournal.com]

*teehee*

What's long, hard and full of seamen? A submarine!

That one only works when you're saying it instead of typing it.