>>>>>>>Too late - we already have 70013 members. I wasn't fast enough with catching the moment, sorry.
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>>>>>>>You may want to watch for #80000, uh?
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>>>>>>Nah, this is as bad as trying to go "over there". Once you get there you are "here" and "over there" is where you were! Arrrghhhh.
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>>>>>As Chairman Mao said, "wherever you turn, your back is behind you"... nah, that was the other one, "wherever you go, there you are".
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>>>>Just reminded me of the most useless question you ever hear a person ask another: "Is that you?". Whoever it is, to him/her the answer's always "yes".
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>>>Years ago I shared an office with three of a client's developers. One of them was a guy in his 50s who had been married for eons. Every time he called his wife from the office he started the conversation the same way. "Alma? This is Dave." The rest of us always had to stifle our laughter. They lived alone (grown children), so who else would she be? And didn't he think she recognized his voice by then? Hilarious.
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>>Yeah. Bugs me when my wife's colleagues (who've met me or know me) - teachers - when they phone, and I answer, go "Terry?". Like, do they know something I don't, like there COULD be another man there?
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>It truly bugs my wife when people misprenouce our last name. Some prenouce as it is spelled "Reich-ert", orders say "Rick-ert", and still others "Rich-ard". It is actually prenouced "Rich-ert". Something my great-grandfather started make in WWI. I am soo used to it, I answer to any of them.

How about mine!? I've spent all my speaking life carefully annunciating my name, even emphasising the "ell" sound at the end, when it's actually just "'ll", insisting it's "MACK" and not "MiCK" like you lot say, and having to spell it out to people who are already half-way through writing "Macdonald"

Yours I imagine, is (or waqs originally) like "Reicchhhh-ert" (as in "loch")