My Mum's Mum and Dad look like (I swear) Dame Edna Everage and Columbo. I'll leave you to figure out which is which...
Dan
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Quote: swerytd @ June 26 2008, 12:43 PM BSTMy Mum's Mum and Dad look like (I swear) Dame Edna Everage and Columbo. I'll leave you to figure out which is which...
The surname on my mum's side of the family is so mental that we've never been able to trace it. We beliiiieeeeve it is of German or Austrian extraction, but aren't sure.
Quote: swerytd @ June 26 2008, 12:39 PM BSTIt's supposed to have a 'D' at the end, but it got anglicized due to the fact that neither of my Dad's parents could speak any English.
It is the ace-est name in the world though. I assumed you'd fallen asleep on the left hand side of the keyboard when you were registering your display name.
Finding out swerytd is the equivalent of bandageg is literally the most astonishing thing I have ever discovered, apart from the 'zooo being a girl' thing, and the Alan Arkin wrote 'The Banana Boat Song' thing.
Quote: Aaron @ June 26 2008, 12:49 PM BST
The surname on my mum's side of the family is so mental that we've never been able to trace it. We beliiiieeeeve it is of German or Austrian extraction, but aren't sure.
Is it Hitler?
Quote: zooo @ June 26 2008, 12:41 PM BSTHa!
Your family sounds ace. Mine are boring.
I do have a Welsh sounding one though!
Well, I did.
Blimey, I've heard of zero tolerance, but that's ridiculous.
Quote: Graham Bandage @ June 26 2008, 1:11 PM BSTIs it Hitler?
Schicklgruber, perhaps 
Quote: Graham Bandage @ June 26 2008, 1:11 PM BSTFinding out swerytd is the equivalent of bandageg is literally the most astonishing thing I have ever discovered
<whispers>
No-one tell him about that wheel-thing that cuts pizzas -- it'll blow his mind!
</whisper>
Dan
What?!?!?
Quote: swerytd @ June 26 2008, 12:39 PM BSTIt's supposed to have a 'D' at the end, but it got anglicized due to the fact that neither of my Dad's parents could speak any English. (There is a Barbara Sweryda who I've seen in the credits to some tv shows somewhere... EDIT: Ah, yes, 'Wardrobe Mistress' on the Smoking Room http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0973855/ Her family must be from the same village.)
Also, due to relocations during the war, I have one Ukrainian grandma who speaks English with a Scottish accent and one Ukrainian grandma who speaks English with a German accent. No-one can really figure this out as they've both lived here since 1946...
Dan
Yeah, but do you have a town named after you?
http://nona.net/features/map/placedetail.1278831/Busselltown/
I so wanted to answer yes to that question, just to piss on your bonfire, but Google Maps assures me I can't. So kudos.
Dan
I've got a piece of medical apparatus, in use throughout the world, named after me. So there, Bussell.
Do you think it's just full of David Bussells, like that weird scene in Being John Malkovich?
Ow! Cut my finger. Just going to put a Graham on it...
Dan
I'm Left handed and it causes problems. Not for me but for others. They think it's odd and I get called 'cack handed' (sp?) all the time which I really hate. The worst situation I can remember for being 'left' was setting up for a family party. I was cutting up bits of cake and some relative on my wife's side noticed I was left handed. He rushed over to me and snatched the knife out of my hand and said he would do the cutting because he couldn't abide watching me use the 'wrong' hand. I waited for the punchline but he was actually serious.
Oh and I was born in Wales and have a Welsh birth certificate. So I get called Welsh. No offense to any Welsh people but I'm not Welsh, I'm English. My parents just happened to be in Wales at the time due to my dad's job and we moved back to England months later. I'm English godamit!!
I want a 'Free the Left Handed Englishman Day' in my honour and to celebrate you can all have the day off work too.
Def.
I just found a Bussellton (not to be confused with Busselltown)too...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Busselton
I like to think I'd he honoured as a God should I ever make the trip to Western Australia.
I've got a whole island named after me!
And an indie band.
And a character from a rubbish old black & white US sitcom about weirdos.
And if you count Laurasia, I'm the old name for a continent. (or something of that nature. I don't know. I'm not a geographer for christ's sake. Stop badgering me!)
Quote: Deferenz @ June 26 2008, 4:25 PM BSTOh and I was born in Wales and have a Welsh birth certificate. So I get called Welsh. No offense to any Welsh people but I'm not Welsh, I'm English. My parents just happened to be in Wales at the time due to my dad's job and we moved back to England months later. I'm English godamit!!
Def.
Don't go near the border or the Merthyr Snatch Squad will have you. All puns intended.