Re: CHAT: "Nik"names :) (was Re: Middle Initials)

Yoon Ha Lee sikayal:

> On Mon, 19 Feb 2001, jesse stephen bangs wrote:
>
> > <rant> JESSE spelled such is *always* a boy's name, thank you very much,
> > and my name is NOT spelled Jessi, Jessie, Jessy, or whatever other horrible
> > mangulation you might be able to come up with. </rant>
> >
> > Sorry--the spelling of my name is one of my pet peeves, and you just sort
> > of reminded me of it.  No harm done, and we are even.
>
> (timidly raising hand from the back)  I could've sworn I knew *one*
> female Jesse back in Texas.  But I haven't misspelled your name--yet.
Years of having my name misspelled have made me very sensitive about this
issue.  And while I know that there are other Jesses out there, I have
never known another Jesse well, so I feel a sort of posessiveness about
the name.  All those other "Jesse" people are imposters, I tell you . . .
I'm the *real* one, the *only* one! ;o)


Jesse S. Bangs jaspax@u.washington.edu
"It is of the new things that men tire--of fashions and proposals and
improvements and change.  It is the old things that startle and
intoxicate.  It is the old things that are young."
-G.K. Chesterton _The Napoleon of Notting Hill_
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