Re: The difficulties of raising your kids to be properly homophobic

Sun, 29 Jun 2008 23:21:33 +0200 tikte dan wel citeerde sio:

>Thu, 26 Jun 2008 14:53:55 +0000 tikte dan wel citeerde Irfon-Kim
>Ahmad:
>
>>Gryph <gryphon420@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>> Ann Burlingham wrote:
>>>
>>>> You know what amazes me about elementary education? How many people I
>>>> know with stories of having their teachers misspell or mispronouce
>>>> their names, while telling the children they're wrong, and apparently
>>>> never bothering to check with the parents. (That's one reason
>>>> "grosvenor" ended up as henry's middle name - my uncle grosvenor
>>>> always had teachers mangle it, and never got them to correct
themselves.)
>>>> 
>>>
>>> When I was about twelve, the school nurse's secretary told me "You
know, 
>>> your name is spelled wrong. Please correct it on this form you filled
out.
>>>
>>> I retorted, "I know how to spell my own name. You're just stupid."
>>>
>>> I got suspended for two days for calling an adult "stupid." *eyeroll*
>>
>>I'm *extremely* easy-going about my name.  I really don't care how 
>>people pronounce or spell it (except in cases where it's critical, like 
>>if they're filling in a form for me to get ID or something) as long as 
>>it's identifiable as me.  In person I'll often say this as, "As long as 
>>I know you're talking to me, it's close enough."  However, I have to 
>>admit that I get irked when I fill my name into online forms and it 
>>comes back telling me that I've entered an illegal character in the 
>>first-name field.
>
>hehe
>We did the Beatles-tour in Liverpool this holiday. It was booked in
>the name of Jonkergown (which is pretty good considering it is
>Jonkergouw).
>
>I had a boarding ticket for Christiaan Jonker for Geneva, instead of
>Christina Jonkergouw for Liverpool. Yeah, sure. There's three of us
>checking in together on one booking, with one booking number. Two fly
>to Liverpool, one to Geneva?
>
>Luckily my suitcase only arrived late that night instead of together
>with us.


O, and then I forgot the booking in our appartment. I booked through
email and we transferred money by bank from Kees' account. His last
name is Van Der Ham. The money was transferred under the name of Mr.
Van.


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sio