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[bob ford <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>]

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--- On Wed, 10/8/08, rayzentz AT aim.com <rayzentz AT aim.com> wrote:

> From: rayzentz AT aim.com <rayzentz AT aim.com>
> Subject: Re: [Homestead] What if OBama
> To: bobford79 AT yahoo.com, homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Date: Wednesday, October 8, 2008, 11:33 AM
> Did these friends use other names, in an attempt to
> "fit in" better?   

******Sure, nicknames, but some were still made fun if the name was related 
to an animate thing or even rhymed with the wrong word, for examples


 
> Two Brothers?  called Bubba? How do you tell them apart?  
> ;-)


***** I don't see them often, but since they were born within minutes of each 
other, telling them apart is still difficult.

 

> However, these are names used by others.   The only name I
> have ever 
> chosen, is in the SCA, where I am known as Padruig
> McTavish.


****** Padruig?  and you are talking about other people using weird names 
being part of a sub-culture <G> ?
 


> When we choose to use a name, it is because we want to
> "fit in" with a 
> particular group, or create a certain perception of
> ourselves.   It's 
> the why of this choice that is of most interest to me, not
> necessarily 
> the name, itself.
> 
> Ray

***** U.S. Grant's real name was Hiram Ulysses Grant.  Monograms were an 
important indication of being a gentleman in those days.  He did not desire 
to start military school with H.U.G. lettered on his luggage and adornments.  
Thus we have President U.S. Grant.  To me, it is of little imporatnce 
...bobford