Re: OT-equality, not reversed

Hmm, yes I can see how the small minded would make sport of an innocent
nickname. You don't think my name sounds stuffy huh? I always thought it
did.

And Lord knows I am anything but that.

---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: "Richard T. Apking" <richa@midlands.net>
Reply-To: gardenchat@hort.net
Date:  Thu, 30 Jan 2003 11:04:21 -0800

>Hey Pam, I think Pamela is a great name.  When I was a little boy, of course
>Richard was shortened to Dick, and that wasn't too bad, since I grew up in
>the time of the Dick and Jane reading primers.  As time went on the name
>just got worse and worse.  Hence the Rich.
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Pamela J. Evans" <gardenqueen@gbronline.com>
>To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
>Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2003 5:42 PM
>Subject: Re: [CHAT] OT-equality, not reversed
>
>
>> Don't feel bad, I used to have a Chinese dry cleaner who could not spell
>> Evans. So he showed me the character he devised so I could always pick
>> out my ticket.
>>
>> Hilarious.
>>
>> ---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
>> From: Janet  Laytham <jw.laytham@worldnet.att.net>
>> Reply-To: gardenchat@hort.net
>> Date:  Wed, 29 Jan 2003 20:34:55 -0500
>>
>> >Claire,
>> >My maiden name is White.  Yet people always asked how to spell it.  Some
>> >spell it with a 'y', just as there are Smythes.
>> >Janet
>> >
>> >
>> >on 01/29/2003 12:18 PM, ECPep@aol.com at ECPep@aol.com wrote:
>> >
>> >> In a message dated 1/28/03 5:54:54 PM Eastern Standard Time,
>> >> kmrsy@earthlink.net writes:
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>> Why don't single people count?>>>>
>> >>
>> >> Kitty, they do.  All people count.  All.  From a "NY bleeding heart
>liberal"
>> >> Don't let anyone get you down on this issue.  Eleanor Roosevelt said,
>amongst
>> >> her many worthy statements, that you are only lessened to the degree
>you
>> >> allow it.  No-one should presume anything with regard to the life
>status of
>> >> another.
>> >>
>> >> Upon reading the many comments, think the solutions to life's problems
>are
>> >> well handled in this category.  I married and have spent 40 years
>spelling my
>> >> name.  My husband will say quietly say, I have told you once and that
>is
>> >> enough and you cannot get another word out of him.   Sometimes I need
>to
>> >> correct a clerk somewhere on why "you people don't change your names."
>I
>> >> have a mother, aged 94, who uses her own name and always has.  If you
>expect
>> >> dignity to be afforded to you from society, you extend dignity to your
>fellow
>> >> man.
>> >>
>> >> Funnily, I was raised in a city with such a mixture of people and a
>wide
>> >> general acceptance of lifestyle that the shock only came upon moving to
>a
>> >> rural area of New York and finding "country people" much more
>conservative.
>> >> This attitude is diminishing to the individual and once in while makes
>you a
>> >> pariah in your own town.  In what is not a small way, it does
>demonstrate a
>> >> wide division in social attitude in this country.  It is shame that in
>this
>> >> new century in the US, women are still struggling for an equal place at
>the
>> >> table.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Claire Peplowski
>> >> NYS z4
>> >>
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>> Pam Evans
>> Kemp TX/zone 8A
>>
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