Spake Logan Tygart on Saturday, June 12, 2004 at 01:44PM -0400:
> On Sat, 2004-06-12 at 13:28, Dylan William Hardison wrote:
> > Spake Scotty Logan on Friday, June 11, 2004 at 09:27PM -0700:
> > > On Jun 11, 2004, at 6:58 PM, Dylan William Hardison wrote:
> > > >So, Gie him a break.
> > >
> > > Now I've not heard that since I left Scotland.
> > Heh, we have two logans now? Interesting.
>
> Yeah but one is a Mc and I believe the other is a Mac. ;-)
>
> Mc Logan (soon to be served at Mc Donalds -- home of American-Irish food
> bwa hahahaha)
Now we just need an O', perhaps an O'Brien. Or an O'Reilly (as in Tim
O'Reilly, the book publisher). Also the Welsh have the Ap prefix,
which means about the same thing (Ap Harry = Parry = Son of Harry),
and the ever popular -son suffix, introduced by the vikings and/or
normans...
hmm, the Manx language (language of the Isle of Man) has yet another
namining convention, but I forget it.
/me imagines some poor lad with the lastname of O'McMacApWillson.
And Russians have a special "father's name" separate from the lastname.
Someone with the name Alexandr, his children will be (firstname)
Alexandrovich (lastname)...
O'McMacApWillsonsenovich!
hehe, I remember how I read that Linus' grandfather basically invented the
last name "Torvalds"... his grandfather was "Torvald Torvalds".
it really makes me wonder when I see names like McPherson, how exactly
that name happened...
--
Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish. Don't overdo it.
-- Lao Tsu
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