forgiveness please

[Stewart Stremler]

begin  quoting Lan Barnes as of Tue, Sep 05, 2006 at 04:03:59PM -0700:
> On Tue, Sep 05, 2006 at 03:50:01PM -0700, Paul G. Allen wrote:
> > Lan Barnes wrote:
> > >
> > >Don't even start me on the permutations of "Lan."
> > 
> > Consider yourself started. :D
> 
> Len
> Ian
> Lon
> Lance
> <many variants>
> 
> Getting someone's name right is such a basic courtesy, you'd think
> people would give it more care.

For some reason, a small percentage of the time I'm called "George".

Otherwise, my first name is relatively unmangled (aside from a choice
of spelling).  My surname, on the other hand.... 

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