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Old 09-03-2009, 11:06 PM   #1
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Maternal grandparents I never knew

Paternal were Pearl and Raymond.

Interestingly, my father was born on the same date as HIS father, so he was also named Raymond. I, of course, had to be born only two days earlier, on the 19th, so I got stuck with Brian. I shoulda been Raymond the Third. It sounds so much more regal.

Also, I always got gypped on presents...I either got a b-day present that "covered Xmas too" or nothing on my b-day but a promise to "make it up to me" a week later. Phooey.
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Old 09-03-2009, 11:22 PM   #2
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Yeah, both my parents were born on Dec 27th. My mother said she was 35 before she got a birthday present that wasn't wrapped in Christmas paper.
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Old 09-03-2009, 11:25 PM   #3
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I shoulda been Raymond the Third. It sounds so much more regal.
Not to Brits -Whatever the Third is slang for poop (rhymes with turd)

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Also, I always got gypped on presents...I either got a b-day present that "covered Xmas too" or nothing on my b-day but a promise to "make it up to me" a week later. Phooey.
you think you were gypped.... my birthday is in Sep and i got presents that were marked birthday and Christmas.....
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Old 09-05-2009, 10:51 AM   #4
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Not to Brits -Whatever the Third is slang for poop (rhymes with turd)
Has anybody told the Prince of Wales about this? Isn't he in line to be King Charles III?
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Old 09-08-2009, 04:45 PM   #5
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Interestingly, my father was born on the same date as HIS father, so he was also named Raymond.
Beest was born on the same day as his dad. TF that brits don't do that name thing so much, I'm not sure I could've married a Reginald
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Old 09-09-2009, 03:47 PM   #6
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Beest was born on the same day as his dad. TF that brits don't do that name thing so much, I'm not sure I could've married a Reginald
I was born on the same date it says on his birth certificate, which his father managed to register incorrectly to get an extra years tax allowance

Hector was due to be born a week before my birthday and was late, but so late he missed the traditional date by another week. I don't think it's as easy to falsify birth records for a tax dodge as back in 1929.
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Old 09-09-2009, 02:31 AM   #7
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Interestingly, my father was born on the same date as HIS father, so he was also named Raymond.


Everybody loves Raymond...
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