[Zelandakh]

kenberg, on 2016-April-06, 11:22, said:

My mother once explained the care with which they chose my name. It was her opinion that the political chances of Robert A Taft were hampered by his initials.

They wanted you to go into IT, so gave you the initials for kilobyte and keyboard?!?

[kenberg]

Zelandakh, on 2016-April-06, 17:12, said:

They wanted you to go into IT, so gave you the initials for kilobyte and keyboard?!?

In full, it's krb (r for Richard) . I will now set to work to see what I can do with it.

[Zelandakh]

kenberg, on 2016-April-06, 20:20, said:

In full, it's krb (r for Richard) . I will now set to work to see what I can do with it.

Being in Germany, that makes me think of Krebs (German for cancer). You weren't botn in July were you? None of the uses I can find online for KRB seem to have any useful meaning, although adding second letters gives K-RoBe, which feels like something that could be used - K for kaften perhaps? Ken Berg at the keyboard still seems like the best headline to me though!

[barmar]

kenberg, on 2016-April-06, 11:22, said:

This is great!
My mother once explained the care with which they chose my name. It was her opinion that the political chances of Robert A Taft were hampered by his initials.

Unfortunately, my parents didn't give much consideration to my initials.

One of my sister's initials are LM, but she's not a bridge player. The other's are SM, but AFAIK she's not into that.

[kenberg]

barmar, on 2016-April-07, 10:48, said:

Unfortunately, my parents didn't give much consideration to my initials.

One of my sister's initials are LM, but she's not a bridge player. The other's are SM, but AFAIK she's not into that.

My mother was born in 1899, the first child, and was named Vernetta Manilla Enemark. Her mother's name was Etta, I don't know where the Vern came from, the Manilla was inspired by the 1899 battle of Manilla. This could make a person a little cautious about names! Her siblings had names such as Eddie, Marjorie and Floyd, so I guess her parents came to their senses. Even now I feel a danger of being haunted by revealing her middle name. She went by Vernetta M or, if pushed, by Vernetta Mae.


We wander from SCOTUS!

[Zelandakh]

barmar, on 2016-April-07, 10:48, said:

One of my sister's initials are LM, but she's not a bridge player.

Over here, LM is sometimes used by cricket scorers to denote a left handed medium pace bowler.

barmar, on 2016-April-07, 10:48, said:

The other's are SM, but AFAIK she's not into that.

How do you know?!! I have to admit that my first thought when I saw the initials was "Small". Your interpretation would never have occurred to me, any more than L&M (the cigarettes) would have sprung to mind for LM.

kenberg, on 2016-April-07, 11:53, said:

My mother was born in 1899, the first child, and was named Vernetta Manilla Enemark.

A similar story from my aunt, who was christened Avis Violet Doble. She hated this (to me it is not so bad!) and chose to go by the name Anne.

My initials are incidentally MAS - any similarity between my forum posts and Male Answer Syndrome is purely coincidental.

[Thiros]

Zelandakh, on 2016-April-06, 17:12, said:

They wanted you to go into IT, so gave you the initials for kilobyte and keyboard?!?

And most recently Knowledge Base

[mycroft]

I'm MDF - yeah, I can't watch "home improvement" shows without flinching.

One of my friends is CDR - which worked well when he was a lisp admin.

[blackshoe]

Heh. I guess I had it easy. Mine are EHR. I was named after my father, who was named after his father.

One sister's initials were VCR.