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Thread #117020   Message #2520301
Posted By: Ebbie
19-Dec-08 - 09:23 PM
Thread Name: BS: Your cultural heritage- is it important?
Subject: RE: BS: Your cultural heritage- is it important?
Better, at times, that we were all 'blind' and then, perhaps we'd see only each other, and not these 'things' Liz the Squeak

Serious question: Are there blind racists?

Bob Ryszkiewicz - (my guess is that once a person knows how it goes, your name isn't that hard to pronounce)

Some of us may be more sensitive to nuance than others, Bob. My last name is 'Bontrager' and for some reason instead of being upset about the many, many mispronunciations of it, my family'collected' them.

The most common surrender was 'Trigger', but I've also heard 'Barndragger' and 'Bonedragger'.

The worst example that we laughed about was probably not that funny, being almost certainly from a barely literate deliveryman.

He was delivering supplies to my father and partner's dairy (Bontrager and Kanagy) and when he reached my brothers he consulted the listed address and inquired, Is this Fawza Bawza and Kane?