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Steve Kraus
Film God

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From: Chicago, IL, USA
Registered: May 2000

posted 10-26-2002 04:19 PM

I should like to direct your attention to a movie called "The Tao of Steve" where Donal Logue explains why "STEVE" is representative of all things good and cool. Who can quarrel with with such impeccable logic especially when you have two perfect examples here in your midst?

The antithesis, BTW, according the movie is the name "STUART" which prompted a good natured objection from a certain very important client of mine with this name after I screened the movie.

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Gracia L. Babbidge
Jedi Master Film Handler

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From: Bowdoin, Maine
Registered: Aug 2000

posted 10-26-2002 10:49 PM

Heh, I'm used to my name always standing out as highly unique.

...and very frequently mispronounced...

One fall semester I was taking a drawing class, it met twice a week. Throughout the whole semester the professor pronounced my name correctly a total of maybe, maybe seven times. And in no two classes in a row did he pronounce it the same way.

After about five weeks I finally gave up on trying to correct him.

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Joe Redifer
You need a beating today

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From: Denver, Colorado
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posted 10-27-2002 01:21 AM

How is it supposed to be pronounced? I see two possibilities:

Gray-Sha

Gray-See-Ya

I've never heard the first part pronounced as "Graw" so I will be ignorant to that possibility.

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Gracia L. Babbidge
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From: Bowdoin, Maine
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posted 10-27-2002 04:35 PM

Hey

- it is gray-sha.

*is at least mildly impressed*

I've heard everything from "Garcia" to "Gracie" ...

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Joe Redifer
You need a beating today

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From: Denver, Colorado
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posted 10-27-2002 10:36 PM

Garcia? People say that? That's a LAST name! Anyone who pronounces it like that should probably report for the IQ test, just so everyone else can make fun of how low the resulting score is!

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Manny Knowles
"What are these things and WHY are they BLUE???"

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From: Bloomington, IN, USA
Registered: Feb 2002

posted 10-28-2002 02:06 PM

I always thought it was "grat-see-yah"

Just don't say there are too many Mannys here

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Tim Reed
Better Projection Pays

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From: Northampton, PA
Registered: Sep 1999

posted 10-29-2002 09:33 AM

quote:
I always thought it was "grat-see-yah"

I have a movie where the girl is called GRAH-shya. (Similar to gracias.)

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Better Projection Pays!

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Gerard S. Cohen
Jedi Master Film Handler

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From: Forest Hills, NY, USA
Registered: Sep 2001

posted 10-29-2002 10:28 AM

<<Just don't say there are too many Mannys here.>>
"Many are called, but Manny is Chosen."

<<Better Projection Pays!>>
(Let's hope a decent wage here on earth!)

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Leo Enticknap
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From: Loma Linda, CA
Registered: Jul 2000

posted 10-30-2002 03:18 AM

I don't know if this is true and if so if he's still there, but several people have told me that apparently there is a Colin Enticknap who was/is the chief projectionist in a London arthouse. The odds against two people with such an unusual name having been in such an unusual occupation (and at one point, in the same city) must be at least tens of thousands to one, I would have thought.

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Gracia L. Babbidge
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From: Bowdoin, Maine
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posted 10-30-2002 02:59 PM

The first time anyone said "Garcia", thinking that they were saying my name, was my first day in kindergarten.
The teacher was taking attendance, calling out names in alphabetical (by surnames) order. I think I was fourth (there were 'Alexander', 'Allen' and 'Almeida' ahead of me). She called out "Garcia Babbidge".
I did not respond.
After going through the whole list, and I sat there, not making a peep, until she asked me who I was. So I told her my name. Her response was "I already called your name."
To that I said (rather indignantly too) "No. You said 'Garcia', that's not my name."
The year kinda went downhill from there.
I could already read & write, and we were writing letters, and she was walking around, stopped behind me, took my writing implement out of my left hand, and put it in my right, and told me to continue, which I did continue, but only after switching the implement back to my left hand...
It also didn't help that I was the only kid in the class that knew that there were no such things as Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, Leprechauns, the Tooth Fairy, etc...

Only too appropriate that I have such a quirky name eh?

<- is happy to be an oddball!

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Adam Martin
I'm not even gonna point out the irony.

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From: Dallas, TX
Registered: Nov 2000

posted 10-30-2002 03:27 PM

Santa isn't real?! Then who the hell was that fat guy in my apartment last year?

There are at least three Adams on the forums, too. It's always fun when there are two of us in the chat room at the same time.

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