Re: Re: OT-Reverse sexism< Ms. Mrs.

Amazing! Where do people come up with these ideas?

Andrea H
Beaufort, SC
Zone 8b

----- Original Message -----
From: "Kitty Morrissy" <kmrsy@earthlink.net>
To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2003 11:31 PM
Subject: Re: Re: [CHAT] OT-Reverse sexism< Ms. Mrs.


> Andrea,
> Re >Never cared for the Junior thing.
> > Makes no sense to me. and then you have to comeup with a way to
> distinguish
> > which male you are peaking of. My friend calls her son and husband 'Son
> > Larry" and "Daddy Larry!"
>
> I was in my 20s before I realized my cosin Gary was actually Peter (Peter
> Gerard), a Jr named after his father.
>
> At my Uncle Bob's wedding to my Aunt Loretta my mother sat in the back
pews
> in case she'd have an asthma fit.  Some people arrived late and sat behind
> her.  When the priest said "Do you James take Helen" the latecomers
thought
> they were at the wrong wedding.  But this is where this story is
different.
> Bob was named for his father James, but his name was James Edward
Morrissy.
> I don't think anyone knows where the name Bob came from.  And Helen?  When
> she was born, her father wanted to name her Helen after his mother, and
his
> wife wanted her named Loretta.  As usual in those days the man won out,
but
> she said, "Fine, it's Helen.  But I'll never call her that."
>
> Kitty
>
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