An Old Player

roymond · Post by **roymond** » Sun Oct 21, 2007 4:41 pm

jolly roger wrote:
Billy's Little Trip wrote:
HeuristicsInc wrote: Pronounced Germanish, yes? For what it's worth I thought it correctly.
Not many do, only Germans.
Everybody pronounces my last name (Reist) as R-eye-st, when we pronounce it R-ee-st

Many secretaries and most medical assistants pronounce my last name "Roy". Something in their brain misfires when they read my chart, since they've only been thinking last-name-first, last-name-first, last-name-first, last-name-first, a few hundred times EVERY FRICKIN' DAY, DAY IN AND DAY OUT. So, naturally they call me Mr. Roy, because clearly NO one could possibly have a last name like Walter...my god just think what might happen then? The world would implode and all would be lost!

I quietly raise my hand and follow them to the office. All is not lost.

No Horse Town · Post by **No Horse Town** » Sun Oct 21, 2007 4:47 pm

My name's Bryn, and almost no one gets it right. Sometimes I get "Bryan" or "Brine", which is kinda understandable... but more often it's "Byron" or "Byrne".

Billy's Little Trip · Post by **Billy's Little Trip** » Sun Oct 21, 2007 4:49 pm

jolly roger wrote:
Billy's Little Trip wrote:
HeuristicsInc wrote: Pronounced Germanish, yes? For what it's worth I thought it correctly.
-bill
Not many do, only Germans.
Everybody pronounces my last name (Reist) as R-eye-st, when we pronounce it R-ee-st

Yeah, people pronounce my last name as D-eye-nst or dynist or dense or Denist and even dean-ist. But mostly, "thank you Mrrrrrrrrrrr ...Dynist?

Steve Durand · Post by **Steve Durand** » Sun Oct 21, 2007 5:05 pm

Billy's Little Trip wrote:
jolly roger wrote:
Billy's Little Trip wrote: Not many do, only Germans.
Everybody pronounces my last name (Reist) as R-eye-st, when we pronounce it R-ee-st
Yeah, people pronounce my last name as D-eye-nst or dynist or dense or Denist and even dean-ist. But mostly, "thank you Mrrrrrrrrrrr ...Dynist?

Why do you make it so hard on everybody.

Change your name to Smith or Jones or something like that.

Steve

Billy's Little Trip · Post by **Billy's Little Trip** » Sun Oct 21, 2007 5:40 pm

sdurand wrote:
Billy's Little Trip wrote:
jolly roger wrote: Everybody pronounces my last name (Reist) as R-eye-st, when we pronounce it R-ee-st
Yeah, people pronounce my last name as D-eye-nst or dynist or dense or Denist and even dean-ist. But mostly, "thank you Mrrrrrrrrrrr ...Dynist?
Why do you make it so hard on everybody.

Change your name to Smith or Jones or something like that.

Steve

Hmm, I like That.

Steve Durand · Post by **Steve Durand** » Sun Oct 21, 2007 5:54 pm

Hmm, I like That.

At least people could pronounce it.

Uhh..I mean that, not it

Billy's Little Trip · Post by **Billy's Little Trip** » Sun Oct 21, 2007 9:36 pm

sdurand wrote:
Hmm, I like That.
At least people could pronounce it.

Uhh..I mean that, not it

not it!

*anticipates the next post*

No Horse Town · Post by **No Horse Town** » Sun Oct 21, 2007 9:50 pm

Billy's Little Trip wrote:
sdurand wrote:
Hmm, I like That.
At least people could pronounce it.

Uhh..I mean that, not it
not it!

*anticipates the next post*

okey dokey...

(knots it)

damn, now it's all a-tangle.

Märk · Post by **Märk** » Sun Oct 21, 2007 10:13 pm

These play-on-word posts work a lot better when there's a cute, giggling female playing along. Otherwise, it's just a sausage festival. (homos)

No Horse Town · Post by **No Horse Town** » Sun Oct 21, 2007 10:18 pm

Märk wrote:These play-on-word posts work a lot better when there's a cute, giggling female playing along. Otherwise, it's just a sausage festival. (homos)

Hey, you can't fool me - there's two cute, giggling females in the upper right corner of that sausage festival!

Billy's Little Trip · Sun Oct 21, 2007 10:25 pm

Märk wrote:These play-on-word posts work a lot better when there's a cute, giggling female playing along. Otherwise, it's just a sausage festival. (homos)

Dude....you are so fucking, it.

Paco Del Stinko · Post by **Paco Del Stinko** » Mon Oct 22, 2007 2:17 am

No Horse Town wrote:My name's Bryn

My first girlfriends' name was Brynne. You sure I don't know you?

No Horse Town · Post by **No Horse Town** » Mon Oct 22, 2007 2:28 am

Paco Del Stinko wrote:
No Horse Town wrote:My name's Bryn
My first girlfriends' name was Brynne. You sure I don't know you?

I'd rather not talk about my days with the extra "-ne". That was a different time, different set of equipment.

Billy's Little Trip · Post by **Billy's Little Trip** » Mon Oct 22, 2007 3:18 am

No Horse Town wrote:
Paco Del Stinko wrote:
No Horse Town wrote:My name's Bryn
My first girlfriends' name was Brynne. You sure I don't know you?
I'd rather not talk about my days with the extra "-ne". That was a different time, different set of equipment.

Paco boinked a future dude.

Paco Del Stinko · Post by **Paco Del Stinko** » Mon Oct 22, 2007 5:05 am

HA HA! But he smelled so nice back then. Mmmmm...Jean Nate and fabric softener. However, I don't think that I'm ready for a trip back to the future, no offense.

Reist · Post by **Reist** » Mon Oct 22, 2007 11:39 am

Paco Del Stinko wrote:My first girlfriends' name was Brynne.

Isn't that what you put pickles in?
PS - for the name thing, what do you guys think of Andrew Reïst? I think the dots over the i are pretty cool. Should I have my first name in there? Reïst has a really metal sound to it. I should enter under that.

No Horse Town · Post by **No Horse Town** » Mon Oct 22, 2007 12:08 pm

jolly roger wrote:
Paco Del Stinko wrote:My first girlfriends' name was Brynne.
Isn't that what you put pickles in?

Is that what we're calling them nowadays? And really, it was just Paco's. Pickle. Not plural. One was enough to change everything...

Paco Del Stinko · Post by **Paco Del Stinko** » Mon Oct 22, 2007 12:13 pm

Brynne = pickle
brine = pickles
Brian = I don't know anything about Brians' pickle, but we did wake up with our flys down after a drunken sleep-over one time.

Billy's Little Trip · Post by **Billy's Little Trip** » Mon Oct 22, 2007 2:29 pm

jolly roger wrote:
Paco Del Stinko wrote:My first girlfriends' name was Brynne.
Isn't that what you put pickles in?

She sounds like a real sourpuss.

Reist · Post by **Reist** » Thu Oct 25, 2007 3:17 pm

Alright - I gave in. As 'attached' as I was to jolly roger, I finally decided that change was needed. The time has come for a new name. This way I can give respect to my ancestors, right? I'm also a whole lot more metal now with those dotty things over top of my last name.

Reïst will now attempt to dominate the music scene of SF.

roymond · Post by **roymond** » Thu Oct 25, 2007 3:27 pm

Feels good, doesn't it? I have no metal transformation planned, but my new nik may bring that about...magically. Thanks Mark.

I mean Märk

HeuristicsInc · Post by **HeuristicsInc** » Thu Oct 25, 2007 4:34 pm

You know, I took German, so I always read these umlauted names as if they were actually in German... no idea what ï would sound like, though.
-bill