Yeah, that was sure weird. Especially considering what I said about Alyson herself was actually nice:
If they want the truth about why I’m no longer friends with their mother or aunt, whichever it is, they should ask her about Vail. I’m sure she won’t tell them the truth, but she knows what she did (and said). I’d like to hope she’s changed since then, but she’s from Texas, so I don’t hold out much hope.
I’m sure she was referring to the offhand remark that her parents should be shot (which I clearly didn’t mean literally for god’s sakes) for saddling her with a name she was constantly having to explain to everyone. And though Anne may have been a family name, the way she told the story herself, it was given to her because during her mother’s pregnancy they didn’t know the sex so they didn’t have a first name to call it — all they knew was that it would be “an Allison,” and after months of calling it just Allison or “an Allison,” they made it official and named her Alyson Anne Allison.
You mean the vast majority of the world doesn’t read Time. The very first “time” I learned he existed, the article quickly instructed readers, “rhymes with ‘safe signs,’” so I was never confused.
That’s what clued me in that it was a zombie thread.
I will add that one of the perks of getting married (besides gaining a wonderful husband) is that I no longer have to see my last name spelled wrong all the time. It was an easy mistake - usual spelling is with -en, mine is with -an, but it’s still annoying as fuck.
Well, I’ve got the opposite problem. There are several ways people spell my first name. The way my parents (and therefore I) spelled it was just how you find it in an English translation of both Judges and 1 and 2 Samuel. The sheer number of ways I’ve had it misspelled over the years is really quite amazing. The worst is on my cable bill–I spelled it for him in person and he still managed to screw it up in all the ways possible simultaneously. I haven’t tried to fix it because I figure that with TWC I’ll wind up getting my cable cancelled on me or something.