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Mikey wrote:No, you need to pay someone else to do thae work. We Jews have a saying for yardwork, construction, automotive work, etc.: "There's a guy for that."

Right now the only guy I can afford to hire to do the work is...me.

Nothing makes your life troubles worse like pissing off a Jew who has local friends of the non-jewish backround.

Deepcrush wrote:Nothing makes your life troubles worse like pissing off a Jew who has local friends of the non-jewish backround.

Why, do you think I know someone called "Bugsy?"

What world do you guys live in that McKenna is a boy's name?

Tyyr wrote:What world do you guys live in that McKenna is a boy's name?

Actually, thats a pretty common boys name in Hawaii

First name? And regardless, it's Hawaii, you don't count.

Tyyr wrote:What world do you guys live in that McKenna is a boy's name?

To be fair, Tyyr, it's hardly a girl's name either. I figured it was a girl because of the English convention of an "-a" ending being feminine; but by all rights, "McKenna" is an Irish surname, not a first name.

Seems to me that there are quite a few names now considered feminine that were not allways considered so. Leslie for one.

And... good morning, DITL!

Vic wrote:Seems to me that there are quite a few names now considered feminine that were not allways considered so. Leslie for one.

Mistranslation of non-English names has contributed, too. "Sasha," for example, is a nickname for the Russian (and related) male name "Alexander," but is often used in English as a feminine name.

I've hear Alex being used as a female name, but never the full Alexander.

Sionnach Glic wrote:I've hear Alex being used as a female name, but never the full Alexander.

That's what I mean - correctly, "Sasha" is a male nickname - for the male name "Alexander" - but because it's inflected as a female name would be in English, "Sasha" gets used as a female name.

Ah, I see what you're getting at now.

Well my father in law has to have surgery today to remove an oversized kidney stone.