[StBernard] The name game

[Westley Annis]

When I worked at VA downtown, at that time the veterans had to submit a
certified copy of the birth certificate to add a dependent onto their
compensation or pension checks.

I was screening the files with mail attached to route it appropriately and
saw this birth certificate attached to the claims file.  The vet was adding
a dependent child and the name on the b. cert was "Yashika".  I looked and
said out loud "their adding a kid and name it after a camera?".  Silly me.
I was told the camera was Yashica but the name Yashika was an African-based
name.  To me it was still a camera.

JY


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	Last year we were forced to replace our old hvac system.  The guy
	 we hired
	was a good natured good ole boy and we sat around the table talking
while I
	wrote out the check for payment.  He took one look at my "formal"
	name on
	the check (Penelope) and asked how to pronounce it.  Since I hate
that
	stupid name that my sister stuck me with at my birth, I hung my head
and
	told him that no one ever gets it right.  He laughed and said it
wasn't the
	goofiest name he had ever heard of.  His wife is an elementary
school
	teacher and one of her new students came in with a name she didn't
know how
	to pronounce so she asked the little girl how to pronounce her name.
The
	little girl replied, "Paj - a - ma", emphasis on the first sylable
	and the
	dashes be silent in this one.  The teacher asked the girl how she
came about
	having such a pretty name and the little girl said that in the
hospital when
	she was born her mom saw a pretty word on a package and decided that
was
	going to be her name.
	  The package contained pajamas.......
	Penny T.