The Return of Liverson
Dec. 9th, 2002 09:50 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kitanziI've don't want to even try totalling up how many years I've been doing customer service over the telephone for various companies. One of the saving notes of entertainment in the whole thing, though, has been creative manglings of my admittedly unusual name (Larissa). I've always figured I would answer to any polite name callers gave me, without wasting time correcting them, but some of them do get ridiculous. At one point I was keeping a running list, which reached something over 30 before I threw it out. Some of these were obvious and understandable, like Clarissa or Melissa, or even Melinda, but I never did figure out (or bother asking) where a few folks came up with Miss Rita, Rose, or other totally unrelated names. The ones that really boggle me, though, are the ones that aren't even names. Is anyone really named Liverson? Or another one, new to me, that recently came up - Eureka? Where do people GET this stuff? My last caller, another who picked Liverson, wasn't even noticeably deaf, though he certainly had no idea of the basic concept of "If I shut up and listen instead of talking over someone, I might even get the information I am wasting everyone's time calling about." I figure I may as well laugh, since I sure can't do a damn thing to change it. *shrug* But seriously.... Liverson??
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Date: 2002-12-09 07:28 am (UTC)*G*
Love you!
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Date: 2002-12-09 07:38 am (UTC)Diana/Nancy/Mary/Nanny/Naomi/Ashley
A.K.A. A. :)
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Date: 2002-12-09 11:52 am (UTC)i've had some fun manglings of my first name to. using my last helped disassociate me from the other person with similar first name who constantly screwed up at work. of those that do understand that i'm saying Bailey, many do comment on how unusual the name is, or how much they like it, or how some friend/relative of theirs just named a little girl that.
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Date: 2002-12-09 03:25 pm (UTC)Re:
Date: 2002-12-09 03:41 pm (UTC)But I'd really, really like to.
Let's do Larissa!
Date: 2002-12-09 10:53 pm (UTC)Have you thought of changing your name to something more simple or more common,
like the Al Capp character Btfsplk? What? Oh, that's right - Btfsplk is a last name. Hey,
how about Wilhelmina? (Think of all the nicknames you can get from Wilhelmina). [g]
Is anyone really named Liverson? Do a web search - you might be surprised!
Ann Onynous
[music: Shirley Ellis doing "The Name Game"]
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Date: 2002-12-10 03:52 am (UTC)Re: Let's do Larissa!
Date: 2002-12-10 04:07 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2002-12-10 05:39 pm (UTC)Dr. Liverson I presume . ..
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Date: 2002-12-11 03:49 am (UTC)In Search Of The First Name
Date: 2002-12-11 12:53 pm (UTC)Doctor Liverson, I presume,
Stepping out of commuting gloom
Into your cubicle.
What did you hear there?
Mangled names that made you glare?
Did you beat anyone?
I've heard mangl-ings galore.
I've heard first names big and small.
I've heard some names I've not heard before.
They're all mangling my first name.
They're all mangling my first name.
They're all mangling my first name...
Ann Onynous
[mood: sympathetic]
[music: a certain Moody Blues song]
Re: In Search Of The First Name
Date: 2002-12-11 03:52 pm (UTC)Re: In Search Of The First Name
Date: 2002-12-11 04:39 pm (UTC)"In Search Of The Lost Chord" album. I'd be surprised if Doc doesn't have it.
Ann