AAARRGHHH!!!

[muckefuck]

Happened again, twice this week: My name got swapped. First, it was a neighbour that I saw for the second time. (Nice guy, but he made the mistake of telling me he's thinking of learning German. Two hours later...) I can't bitch too much about that one, since I almost got his name wrong, too. (My confusion was at least unusual--at least, I highly doubt anyone's ever mistakenly called him "Chris" before.) Second, it was a subscription notice for a campus group. Seeing it in print bothers me much more, just as seeing my name shortened or otherwise mangled bothers me more when it's written than when it's spoken.

Dammit, I'm a PROPHET, not a KING! That's it; from now on, I'm introducing myself as "Da".

Comments

Aber Daniel ... wer wird denn geleich in die Luft gehn?

[(Anonymous)]

Immer schön ruhig bleiben ... was kann man denn falsch machen bei diesen biblischen und schönen Namen? (jetzt stürzt dieser beschissene Pc doch einfach ab)

Eine der schönsten Schnulzen und das Beste von Elton John verdanken wir deinen Namen.

Da ist ja ganz nett (erinnert mich aber immer wieder an neue deutsche Welle und Trio), kann aber doch den Daniel nicht dauerhaft ersetzen.

Küss die Hand!
Nino

PS: es sieht so aus als wäre der verrückte Heckenschütze gefasst. Hoffentlich!

Re: Aber Daniel ... wer wird denn geleich in die Luft gehn?

[muckefuck.livejournal.com]

Sie können ihn mit dem biblischen und schönen Namen vom Vater des Absaloms verwechseln. Und das tun sie--ständig. Sie können ihn auch verkürzen oder verkleineren. Ich habe mich mit der einsilbigen Verkürzung abgefunden, aber die Diminutivform nervt, ausserdem wenn sie von gewissen Intimfreunden benutzt wird.

Das Trio-Song ist mehr nach meinem Geschmack als das vom Elton John, aber ich mag sie beide!

[rollick.livejournal.com]

So wait, I forget, you're named after that Biblical guy who was thrown into some bad place but God rescued him, right? Shadrach? Or was it Meshach?

>:^)

[muckefuck.livejournal.com]

Wrong song.

Now, Daniel was a bad man, who wouldn't mind the king.
The king said he wouldn't have any such thing.
He threw him down a manhole with lions underneath--
But Daniel was a dentist, and he pulled the lions' teeth!

[rollick.livejournal.com]

Wait a sec, "Daniel was a bad man who wouldn't mind the king"?

Now there's a twist on that story that I've never heard before. Daniel was a bad guy, and he was so tough he pulled out the lion's teeth? That makes him sound more like bad, bad Leroy Brown than the Disney-esque saint from the versions of the story I was fed as a kid.

Either that, or he was just an evil dentist, à la Steve Martin's character from "Little Shop Of Horrors."

[muckefuck.livejournal.com]

That song is full of twists.

But Daniel was bad-ass! He ate his spinach and grew strong while the Babylonians feasted on meat and got heart disease! He slew a dragon! He got stoned as a lord and had to taste his way home! (Actually, I made up that last part.)

[rollick.livejournal.com]

Even if he didn't, I bet he coulda. He was bad-ass, and hadn't deadened his taste buds with all that red meat and sweet pastry.

[bunj.livejournal.com]

Young folks, old folks, everybody come.
Come to the Sunday school and have a lot of fun.
Park your (something) and chewing gum at the door,
And I'll tell you Bible stories you never heard before.

[muckefuck.livejournal.com]

Please park your chewing gum lose its flavour
On the bedpost overnight?
If your mother says, "Don't chew it!"
Do you swallow it in spite?

Whoops! Got distracted. I mean:

Please park your chewing gum and raisins at the door

Ich danke Euch für die Aufmerksamkeit!