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Offline Pastis

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Re: Your name, please?
« Reply #15 on: May 26, 2009, 07:13:28 PM »
I'd look forward to any of those three guesting it. My choice, had I the influence, would be Barry Humphries (as himself, obviously).
Urbane, witty, eloquent, slightly tired but still wickedly satirical.

Did you catch him on Desert Island Discs earlier in the week? Lovely man. He wants to write his own obit to ensure there is no mention of Edna.  ;D

Yes. The first time I was aware of him was via Private Eye and then as "Envy" in that film with Dudley Moore and Peter Cook, "Bedazzled"
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« Reply #16 on: May 26, 2009, 09:11:28 PM »
Having a surname that I usually have to pronounce two or three times, then spell out to the person enquiring, I have taken for many a year to using a more common name to make things easier. It's simpler, less time consuming and all in all a safer bet  angel1


Indeed you should dumb it down for us simpletons  whistle:

Pastis

Pasty

Pastry

Past it

Smith  cloud9: cloud9: cloud9:
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« Reply #17 on: May 27, 2009, 06:22:16 AM »
Having a surname that I usually have to pronounce two or three times, then spell out to the person enquiring, I have taken for many a year to using a more common name to make things easier. It's simpler, less time consuming and all in all a safer bet  angel1


Indeed you should dumb it down for us simpletons  whistle:

Pastis

Pasty

Pastry

Past it

Smith  cloud9: cloud9: cloud9:


Spoken like a true friend. eeek:

Anyway surely it would be Psmith  (One there for the Wodehouse fans among us ~ the p is silent as in bath)
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« Reply #18 on: May 27, 2009, 06:25:46 AM »
Surely it reflects my ignorance more than anything else though Snoops  whistle:

Pastis knows I am only jesting  cloud9: ..... I am in no position to criticise anybody's surname  sad24:



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« Reply #19 on: May 27, 2009, 06:26:57 AM »
Surely it reflects my ignorance more than anything else though Snoops  whistle:

Pastis knows I am only jesting  cloud9: ..... I am in no position to criticise anybody's surname  sad24:




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Re: Your name, please?
« Reply #20 on: May 27, 2009, 06:30:11 AM »
Surely it reflects my ignorance more than anything else though Snoops  whistle:

Pastis knows I am only jesting  cloud9: ..... I am in no position to criticise anybody's surname  sad24:




point:


Oh ~ and you are I suppose?
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« Reply #21 on: May 27, 2009, 06:35:11 AM »
Surely it reflects my ignorance more than anything else though Snoops  whistle:

Pastis knows I am only jesting  cloud9: ..... I am in no position to criticise anybody's surname  sad24:




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Oh ~ and you are I suppose?
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« Reply #22 on: May 27, 2009, 06:49:05 AM »

I have not reverted to my maiden name due to The Brat really and having some consistency for her - however I am now wondering why the hell that matters  rubschin:

It could be time for a change I think  8)
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« Reply #23 on: May 27, 2009, 06:57:03 AM »
Well I know the origins of my surname ~ could be a conversation starter for Friday night if everyone else did too ~ and not just because it was your dad's name either!
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« Reply #24 on: May 27, 2009, 07:06:57 AM »
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Re: Your name, please?
« Reply #25 on: May 27, 2009, 07:08:45 AM »
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Aw ~ come on you old spoilsport, there must be an interesting history in your name.

Mine has a fascinating tale behind it.
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« Reply #26 on: May 27, 2009, 07:10:19 AM »
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Aw ~ come on you old spoilsport, there must be an interesting history in your name.

Mine has a fascinating tale behind it.
Look mine up and you can tell me all about it on Friday then...  whistle:
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Re: Your name, please?
« Reply #27 on: May 27, 2009, 07:38:07 AM »
No:

Aw ~ come on you old spoilsport, there must be an interesting history in your name.

Mine has a fascinating tale behind it.
Look mine up and you can tell me all about it on Friday then...  whistle:


You have prolly already done an internet search for it ~ most people have. I can tell you that there are more people with your surname in the old records than I expected BUT the usual sites can offer no explanation of its origins which looks as if it is a corruption of a foreign name or an invented name used by record keepers when your ancestors arrived on these shores and nobody could understand them. There are a fair number with the same surname in the USA too. Interestingly looking at the name distribution in 1891 there are large portions of the UK where the name does not appear on the records at all and the biggest concentration is in the South East. Most are in London, then there is an even spread throughout Essex, Middlesex, Kent, Sussex, Surrey and Hampshire. Few in Wiltshire and Dorset and a lot again in Devon. None in Cornwall or Wales (Scotland keeps its own records so is not included) None in Derbyshire or Cheshire. A scant few in other counties. This would indicate that the immigrant families had become well established by 1891 but tended to remain in and around London where the work/money was. I would suspect, given your known colouring (hair etc), that the family origins lie in the Northern end of Europe rather than further south towards the Med.
Tell me on Friday how wrong I am and how you are really descended from a long line of Mexican bandits. lol:
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Re: Your name, please?
« Reply #28 on: May 27, 2009, 07:39:08 AM »
Alternatively he is an  alien
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« Reply #29 on: May 27, 2009, 07:40:51 AM »
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