The opposite of Dark is ... (or: think before you emigrate)
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Hello and Good Evening, you consider emigration to another country? Be careful: Your surname might have a funny meaning in your new home country's language. Even worse: It can habe a diabolic meaning. You can have the most beautiful name you can imagine - for example: Bright or Light. If your native language is German, your name might be Hansi Hell. Dictionary: Hell = Light, Bright, Lucid^ If you have such a nice surname and want to emigrate, choose your new country carefully. You could loose your reputation. Your children could be dismissed from school and laughed at by their peers. Brisbane Times: Max Hell (5 years) shunned by Catholic school^ Max Hell ... a cute name in Austria. A cool name in Australia. But definitly not for a Catholic Australian. :rolleyes: -------- By the way, when we spent a vacation in NYC (back in the year 1996) many people gave us queer looks after checking my mom's passport. I still don't get what was wrong about it. The only explanation ever, I heard from a lady at a hotel who had problems with the surname "John": "It's ... well, it's a first name, here." If I had spent more time there, maybe I would have understood the joke. :confused:
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Heh, my mom's family name is Malato, which means "sick" in Italian :)
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Heh, my mom's family name is Malato, which means "sick" in Italian :)
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By the same token, I worked for a guy who's last name was Maltempo. In Italian, it means "poor time" or simply "bad tempo". He played drums. We programmers always cheered when he played at office events, since he was CEO nonetheless and signed our paychecks.
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By the same token, I worked for a guy who's last name was Maltempo. In Italian, it means "poor time" or simply "bad tempo". He played drums. We programmers always cheered when he played at office events, since he was CEO nonetheless and signed our paychecks.
Did he play good, or in bad tempo? ;)
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Did he play good, or in bad tempo? ;)
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I'm not sure since he always played after the open bar. But he didn't have "bad timing" when it came to business. He sold it off in the late 90's and became a very rich man. Mr "bad timing" ended up having the last laugh...lol
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Hello and Good Evening, you consider emigration to another country? Be careful: Your surname might have a funny meaning in your new home country's language. Even worse: It can habe a diabolic meaning. You can have the most beautiful name you can imagine - for example: Bright or Light. If your native language is German, your name might be Hansi Hell. Dictionary: Hell = Light, Bright, Lucid^ If you have such a nice surname and want to emigrate, choose your new country carefully. You could loose your reputation. Your children could be dismissed from school and laughed at by their peers. Brisbane Times: Max Hell (5 years) shunned by Catholic school^ Max Hell ... a cute name in Austria. A cool name in Australia. But definitly not for a Catholic Australian. :rolleyes: -------- By the way, when we spent a vacation in NYC (back in the year 1996) many people gave us queer looks after checking my mom's passport. I still don't get what was wrong about it. The only explanation ever, I heard from a lady at a hotel who had problems with the surname "John": "It's ... well, it's a first name, here." If I had spent more time there, maybe I would have understood the joke. :confused:
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Well, there's Elton John, Olivia Newton-John, etc. Maybe the joke was something like "Corrine's in the john" (john meaning toilet). I don't know. It's not a NYC inside joke from what I can tell.
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Hello and Good Evening, you consider emigration to another country? Be careful: Your surname might have a funny meaning in your new home country's language. Even worse: It can habe a diabolic meaning. You can have the most beautiful name you can imagine - for example: Bright or Light. If your native language is German, your name might be Hansi Hell. Dictionary: Hell = Light, Bright, Lucid^ If you have such a nice surname and want to emigrate, choose your new country carefully. You could loose your reputation. Your children could be dismissed from school and laughed at by their peers. Brisbane Times: Max Hell (5 years) shunned by Catholic school^ Max Hell ... a cute name in Austria. A cool name in Australia. But definitly not for a Catholic Australian. :rolleyes: -------- By the way, when we spent a vacation in NYC (back in the year 1996) many people gave us queer looks after checking my mom's passport. I still don't get what was wrong about it. The only explanation ever, I heard from a lady at a hotel who had problems with the surname "John": "It's ... well, it's a first name, here." If I had spent more time there, maybe I would have understood the joke. :confused:
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By the same token, I worked for a guy who's last name was Maltempo. In Italian, it means "poor time" or simply "bad tempo". He played drums. We programmers always cheered when he played at office events, since he was CEO nonetheless and signed our paychecks.
Hey, you wouldn't be related to Diego de la Vega[^] would you... :)
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Hello and Good Evening, you consider emigration to another country? Be careful: Your surname might have a funny meaning in your new home country's language. Even worse: It can habe a diabolic meaning. You can have the most beautiful name you can imagine - for example: Bright or Light. If your native language is German, your name might be Hansi Hell. Dictionary: Hell = Light, Bright, Lucid^ If you have such a nice surname and want to emigrate, choose your new country carefully. You could loose your reputation. Your children could be dismissed from school and laughed at by their peers. Brisbane Times: Max Hell (5 years) shunned by Catholic school^ Max Hell ... a cute name in Austria. A cool name in Australia. But definitly not for a Catholic Australian. :rolleyes: -------- By the way, when we spent a vacation in NYC (back in the year 1996) many people gave us queer looks after checking my mom's passport. I still don't get what was wrong about it. The only explanation ever, I heard from a lady at a hotel who had problems with the surname "John": "It's ... well, it's a first name, here." If I had spent more time there, maybe I would have understood the joke. :confused:
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Latvians laugh at Vista [^] Apparently, whenever they ring up peddling Vista, Latvians burst out laughing because the name means "chicken" or "frumpy woman" in the local lingo.
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.(John 3:16) :badger:
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Hello and Good Evening, you consider emigration to another country? Be careful: Your surname might have a funny meaning in your new home country's language. Even worse: It can habe a diabolic meaning. You can have the most beautiful name you can imagine - for example: Bright or Light. If your native language is German, your name might be Hansi Hell. Dictionary: Hell = Light, Bright, Lucid^ If you have such a nice surname and want to emigrate, choose your new country carefully. You could loose your reputation. Your children could be dismissed from school and laughed at by their peers. Brisbane Times: Max Hell (5 years) shunned by Catholic school^ Max Hell ... a cute name in Austria. A cool name in Australia. But definitly not for a Catholic Australian. :rolleyes: -------- By the way, when we spent a vacation in NYC (back in the year 1996) many people gave us queer looks after checking my mom's passport. I still don't get what was wrong about it. The only explanation ever, I heard from a lady at a hotel who had problems with the surname "John": "It's ... well, it's a first name, here." If I had spent more time there, maybe I would have understood the joke. :confused:
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Corinna John wrote:
The only explanation ever, I heard from a lady at a hotel who had problems with the surname "John": "It's ... well, it's a first name, here." If I had spent more time there, maybe I would have understood the joke.
In India, specially the south where there are lots of Christians, John is a common last name. I have a friend with John as surname and my one of dad's closest friends is also a John.
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Latvians laugh at Vista [^] Apparently, whenever they ring up peddling Vista, Latvians burst out laughing because the name means "chicken" or "frumpy woman" in the local lingo.
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.(John 3:16) :badger:
Not entirely inappropriate :rolleyes:
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Latvians laugh at Vista [^] Apparently, whenever they ring up peddling Vista, Latvians burst out laughing because the name means "chicken" or "frumpy woman" in the local lingo.
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.(John 3:16) :badger:
The perfect OS for a "Vista". :laugh:
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