Uncle Roger wrote:
>
> At 11:11 AM 6/22/98 -0700, you wrote:
> >>Robotron is also a video game ca. 1981-2 (Williams, iirc) that was
> [...]
> >>each other. Other, similar games included Sinistar (no relation, and don't
> >>even go there) and one whose name I forgot that had to do with spiders and
>
> >What do you mean, there's no relation? They are both William's titles...and
>
> Whups... Sorry. I occassionally get sensitive about my last name, and
> when I was younger, I was the butt of a lot of jokes centered around my
Tell me about it. As a kid, I went by my middle name, as inflicted upon
me by my parents -- and my mother and sisters that I first saw in two
decades call me Don or Donnie and my sisters taught their kids the name --
I had to deal with craploads of Donald Duck jokes as a kid in the early
sixties. When I switched to my first name when I entered Jr. High in
1967 (telling one teacher at the beginning of the year that you use your
middle name is easy -- telling seven teachers each semester gets a bit
tedious), I had to put up with all of the "Leave it to Beaver" jokes that
my classmates had been waiting to use. Yes, I've _heard_ "Ward, weren't
you a little hard on the Beaver last night". And several others.
--
Ward Donald Griffiths III
They say that politics makes strange bedfellows.
Of course, the main reason they cuddle up is to screw somebody else.
Michael Flynn, _Rogue Star_
Received on Thu Jun 25 1998 - 19:59:30 BST