Re: "Who the Hell is Haich O'Mannder?" . . .

Johnson Barr Wrote:
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> . . . it's gotten to be really tough keeping track
> of who's who, where's where and what's what
> what with all the nicknames like Wacky Roger /
> Roger Wigwam / Haich O'Mannder (who can't
> even spell his own moniker), et al.

HAICH OMANDIER Wrote:
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> Can't spell my own moniker?  Roosso tagged
> me with the 'title' Haich Omandier.  I don't know
> if it's Gaelic, Swedish, or even Tuzigoot, let alone
> spell it. Thanks Johnson . . .
> - High Commander


Guilty as Charged, Yore Awner -

MANY years ago I sent a small donation to the CRRM – IIRC it was $50 or $100 toward the rebuild of RGS #20 – and I wrote at the bottom right of the envelope "Attn: "  followed by Bill's former CRRM title but translated to pseudo-Gaelic.  I heard that it didn't get delivered for more than a week, until someone in the office shouted, "Who the Hell is Haich O'Mannder?" . . .

And you gotta admit "Haich O'Mannder" is a lot different from "HAICH OMANDIER", which sounds to me not so much Gaelic as French or maybe – like my older dog Bosco (a Brabanter Bülllenbeisser) – it's Flemish.  It's not Swedish, anyway, and it's a good thing it's not Tuzigoot (which is derived from Leif Ericson's native Danish — see [ngdiscussion.net]) or hardly any of us could even come close to pronouncing it.

- El Abuelo Histœrico, Greengo y Curmudgeoño de los Locomoturas Viejos y Verdes,
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Edited 3 time(s). Last edit at 06/06/2022 08:59PM by Russo Loco.