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So we've got Webbo who's really a Jon but called Webbo and Jon who's both called and actually Jon and a techie but doesn't say much and Tam who isn't a Jon and also not a mathmatical genius? (If challenged, I'm going to blame one of the three for deleting my punctuation in that)
[quote=Mutley]perhaps we should all change our user names to jon - we could add a full stop or exclamation mark or numbers to differentiate all the jons. [/quote]
Perhaps the three moderators are all the same person. Well, one writer may have different names because of his/her/its different types/style of writing.
[quote=Webbo]I'm Jon and so's my wife [/quote]
:D Drats! You beat me to it, Webbo. A Monty Python fan?
Hijacking this for a mo:
Did you know that in Bali, Indonesia, there is a naming system where only four names are used? The first born, whether male or female is called "Wayan", (pron: Way-arn. Yan, for short), the second is always named "Made," (Pron: Mardi), third is "Nyoman" or Komang (Pron: Norman or No-marn. Man or Mang for short), and fourth is "Ketut" (Pron: Kar toot. Often elided to Tut).
If there is a fifth child, he/she is called Wayan again as it goes back to the start. So in actual fact, there very easily could be a mother, father and two children all in the one family with the same name. END OF HIJACK. :)
So far from being a hi-jackers paradise, this is a hi-jack that is not a hi-jack. To the uninitiated it may well look like a hi-jack, read like a hi-jack and feel like a hi-jack, but in truth it isn't really a hi-jack at all, because there's actually nothing to hi-jack. So therefore its un-highjackable!
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Ah but you've given us an example of how to write a sentence that scans well without punctuation.
p.s. who says my name's not Jon too? ;)
Tam
I bagsy being *~Jon~* .
We'd better get back on topic or Jon or Jon or Jon too might come and moderate us. I've heard it can be rather painful, especially in triplicate.
I'm not really another Jon - I'm Tam, call me Tam - or you'll confuse me too. :)
Tam you will be then. :)
Do you have kids called Jon, too?
You see, Jon, that's how it happens. Getting off topic I mean. We're just too damn entertaining for our own good. ;)
Tam
Ah, :) you are all getting the hang of it then...
Nice to see the mods are getting with the flow here - we'll soon have 'em as batty as us!
:D Drats! You beat me to it, Webbo. A Monty Python fan?
Hijacking this for a mo:
Did you know that in Bali, Indonesia, there is a naming system where only four names are used? The first born, whether male or female is called "Wayan", (pron: Way-arn. Yan, for short), the second is always named "Made," (Pron: Mardi), third is "Nyoman" or Komang (Pron: Norman or No-marn. Man or Mang for short), and fourth is "Ketut" (Pron: Kar toot. Often elided to Tut).
If there is a fifth child, he/she is called Wayan again as it goes back to the start. So in actual fact, there very easily could be a mother, father and two children all in the one family with the same name. END OF HIJACK. :)
It's easy, Dwight. Tom-ass Har-dee.
(As for the other, I have no idea. He's very hard to ask for in bookstores - but well worth the effort.)
Island Girl - what happens in Indonesia if you have twins?
Don't know. I guess the names apply in order of birth even in the case of minutes apart.
Has this thread been hi-jacked or wot?
Tam
Great! :)
(well it amused me)
So the mystery is solved. Tam must be the man from Stan's post office!
As to PaulT's posting - groan! ;)