The origin of our A2K names...

Well, my grandfather (mother's site) was called 'Walter'. So they called me at the registry and in church.

And since 1287 all the males (and unmarried females)of my family carry the name Hinteler (although three times some with other names had to take that name Laughing

).

So, I thought, it would be good enough for A2K as well. Laughing

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Letty is part of a spoonerism. I wasn't very imaginative when I first signed in to Abuzz. As a matter of fact, I have five names in real life. Razz

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Oldandknew ? Well I'm retired now = Old. When I was working I knew a load of stuff, but nowadays I simply plead memory loss. If pushed I make it up accordingly.

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Heeven = Heaven and Hell coz I got both in me.

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hmmmm

There's a football team - at a University in Nebraska (Lincoln) I'm VERY fond of! I'm know in many a place as husker - like the avatar!

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I lack imagination and creativity and therefore used my actual name. (I should've used something exciting like Rick Jones.)

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Origin of my nick: http://www.0vermann.de/elsa/elsa.html

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<<Jespah had even been shot at by herders and had an arrow permanently in his rump. >>

C'mon now, jes...we'd never hurt you! Wink

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I can spell it!

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Eva wrote:

<<Jespah had even been shot at by herders and had an arrow permanently in his rump. >>...

Some of you may now be thinkin', hmm, that explains a lot. :-D

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harrumphffffffffffff - Miss Cleo liked the person who took that photo in a mortarboard very much. He was one of the first friends she made at school. I think she was just feeling a bit puzzled about why I was holding that thing on her head. The rest of that pic shows Bailey peering around the side of me to look at her in great puzzlement.

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Hate my real name.

Have used "Anne Gabriel" on photos I've done.
Hence, "ann g....... angie !

At a certain point, children should be allowed to choose their own names.

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Cut & pasted from my profile...

About the username: "Eva" was the name of an aunt, my father's sister, who died shortly before I was born. My father always said there was an uncanny resemblance between us. It's quite obvious in photos. "Eva" wasn't actually her given name...she chose it...had it changed legally as soon as she came of age. So I thought it would be appropriate if I chose that name, too.

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If asked, I can tell you about the derivation of "realjohnboy" if it isn't obvious.
But what is driving me nuts tonight, Grand Duke, is your nursery rhyme. I vaguely remember an ending where the Duke of York came down the hill with only half his troops. It was not a good day for the other 5000.
An "etymological Rumpelstiltskin" says Sozobe. Thanks for the clue. -realjohnboy-

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RJB - I Google'd for "grand old duke of york" and it gave me 4,000 hits. The first 10 I could access all had a happy ending (with all the men leaving together).

What is more puzzling to me is that the Vale of York (where York sits) is one of the flattest pieces of land in northern England. There isn't a single hill anywhere near here where more than a couple of hundred soldiers could march, nevermind 10,000. I assume they must have been out on manoeuvres somewhere!

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sozobe wrote:

I have managed to go this long without 'splainin', and I'm gonna keep at it. (You may guess, though, a sort of etymological Rumpelstiltskin.)

I may have rumbled you. I ran a Google search for 'sozobe', and excluded "able2know". The 6th hit appears on the follwing site:

www.sexkompas.cz/amateur-porn-sex-blo.html

Not able to check it out as the network administrator will probably sack me for looking at porn, but 'sozobe' appears to be a Czech word?

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Grand Duke wrote:

sozobe wrote:
I have managed to go this long without 'splainin', and I'm gonna keep at it. (You may guess, though, a sort of etymological Rumpelstiltskin.)

I may have rumbled you. I ran a Google search for 'sozobe', and excluded "able2know". The 6th hit appears on the follwing site:

www.sexkompas.cz/amateur-porn-sex-blo.html

Not able to check it out as the network administrator will probably sack me for looking at porn, but 'sozobe' appears to be a Czech word?

you canoot read a thing on that page! but Sozo! gasp Embarrassed

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I am in Czech all next week - do u want me to check sozobe out ? Twisted Evil

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Hahahaha!!

I really should remain Garbo-esque about that one, but... Coincidence, I assure you. Cool

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mac is my initials. 11 is my lucky number.

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