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To: Gauguin who wrote (51298)	5/26/2000 6:50:00 PM
From: Kid Rock	Respond to of 71178

Sorry but that name is already taken: people.yahoo.com

To: Gauguin who wrote (51298)	5/26/2000 7:12:00 PM
From: Ish	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 71178

<<I'm the last male in my family? Literally. Well, my dad is 80, but he's not adopting anyone. I'm the last one in the West, and if any in the East are related to us, we don't know about it. >> That's deep sheeyit. Same here. No kids, no relations to speak of. I have china from the turn of the century from the family. Pictures,,, etc. Coupla million bucks. I get worried about who to leave it to. Wife has no family left. I do have cousins and stuff but they don't include me. Bet they will when I'm dead. Easy answer,,, I'll out live the bastards.

To: Gauguin who wrote (51298)	5/26/2000 7:15:00 PM
From: Mac Con Ulaidh	Respond to of 71178

There aren't any males in my family. Atleast no children with Y chromes. It is Y chromes that make the male, right? I more-or-less flunked biology, but you get my drift, I bet. <watch out for the rapids> So we're the last of ours. And we don't care about the rest, either. But then there's the sis-who-propagated. The kids wanted to be hyphenated. They like the name. Even the hubby is now a hyphen. He likes us better than his own family. Or maybe not, but we talk to him and they don't. I have no idea why I'm saying this stuff. It leads up to name-changing. I wanna. Done it lots of times with the first name, to the point I get confused sometimes 'bout who knows me as who. I go to an outing as Lil and they think I'm acting not-myself. Oops, oh yeah, you guys know that other one. Hang on while I switch. What is the hang-up with names? People can get down right pissy if you change it, like it's there business. Ain't none of their business. You nailed it. Some people who are probably not thinking strate cause their all excited about labeling the product of their toil and they have all this stuff going thru their heads like dead people they know, live people who they wanna stroke, favorite soap stars, all that. But what do they know about what your name really is, or what you want it to me. It's MINE. pfffft. Toaster Oven is cool, but I think I might go with Ringer Washer.

To: Gauguin who wrote (51298)	5/26/2000 7:51:00 PM
From: CharleyMike	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 71178

OK, that's the idea I've been waiting for. Change names then change 'em again. Get names that mean something. Lessee ~ for the next several days (probably weeks) I'm gonna' be "fieldstone patio builder". Then for several subsequent weeks (mebbe" months) I'll be "Ol grouch down in back". If that ain't acceptable, try "TequilaCharley" 'cause it's likely to take a gallon or so to get this project finished. Older bro' had four sons. They can do the family name thing. Pappy never knew what I call reality. ^ ^ Or maybe he did and I don't. I think I'll just settle on "Big Drunk". That's what the Indians in Tennessee called Sam Houston and look how he turned out. Say it in Spanish ~ ~ "Grande Borracho". Yup, that'll work for a while ~ then we'll try somethin' else. Anybody out there can tell me how to build a fieldstone patio? 12 ft x 16 ft. space, got two (2) big pallets of stones. Helpful advice appreciated ~ All seriousness aside ~ if ya do know how ~ PM me, don't clutter up the thread with construction talk.

To: Gauguin who wrote (51298)	5/26/2000 9:40:00 PM
From: E	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 71178

I really don't think you should change your name to Toaster Oven. I could be wrong, though. But I don't think there's really any reason to change your name, when you could just add an alias. Let's say your name were Tom Smith. You could be Tom "Toaster Oven" Smith. Like you were a member of the household appliance mafia. Everyone could do that, and they would be able to keep the bloodline-info, or pseudo-info, in tact, but add meaning, the way mafia guys do. I have a friend who claims to be a psychic, and many believe her. I have had a couple of odd experiences in connection with her psychic abilities. I've had many experiences of things she predicted (using Tarot cards or "the numbers") simply never coming true. Well, almost nothing ever comes true that she predicts, though she often remembers her predictions rather selectively. IMO. But a couple of incidents were very striking. She was asked by her son whether she wanted him to make toast for her. (He'd made toast for others.) She said, "Sure; oh, nevermind, the toaster is going to break." But he went to make her toast anyway, and there was a short or something, and that was the end of the toaster. Then, later, our vacuum cleaner broke. It hadn't worked right for ages. You had to feed dust balls into it by hand. And N was going away and asked me wouldn't I please get a new vacuum cleaner. So after I dropped him at the airport, I drove to Sears and bought a vacuum cleaner. That evening I met my friend for dinner in a restaurant. In the course of things, she offered to "do my numbers." That means, I give her three numbers (under ten, I think) and she closes her eyes and concentrates, and then tells you something. So I gave her the numbers, and she said, "I see a vacuum cleaner. I think you're going to get a new vacuum cleaner." I was pretty flabbergasted, and of course insisted on establishing to my satisfaction that there was no way she or anyone in her family could have been hiding behind a pillar at Sears or in any way known this. (She would not have done a dishonest thing in any case.) I told her about the Sears vacuum cleaner I had bought, and she said, "But I saw one with a name starting with an E." A mistake, I figured. The next day, the non-E vacuum cleaner I bought proved to be defective. I took it back to Sears and didn't buy another one there. I don't remember why not. I probably wanted a sale or something. On the way home from Sears, I passed a store on the main street of our town, and in the window was a big sign, ELECTROLUX SALE! So of course I bought the Electrolux. Which is excellent. This experience is only interesting to me because there is just no explanation I can think of for her (unusual) correct prediction, out of the blue, regarding a new vacuum cleaner. And there was the toaster incident. And I hear there was a similar one involving a camera. When I expressed my amazement over these incidents, with a special concentration on the one that involved me, my friend said, "I'm very good with small appliances."