Re: The price of oil

On 13.10.2022 14.03, Merlyne wrote:
> BeH <[email protected]> wrote in news:[email protected]:
> 
>> On 12.10.2022 13.34, Merlyne wrote:
>>> BeH <[email protected]> wrote in news:[email protected]:
>>>
>>>> On 11.10.2022 22.38, Merlyne wrote:
>>>>>>>>> Surely I've told you not to call me shirley in the past.
>>>>>>>> Maybe your teacher had an other pupil who should try harder. A
>>>>>>>> pupil named Shirley.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> If I was in school in the 1940s, maybe.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> https://www.ssa.gov/oact/babynames/top5names.html
>>>>>> That young miss Temple has a lot to answer for. Also silly
>>>>>> canadians... Anyway not evertone has a top10 name - there is every
>>>>>> reason to believe that mine for example has never been
>>>>>> particularly popular.
>>>>>>
>>>>> Maybe not in the US of A.
>>>>
>>>> I once looked it up in a New York phone book (it was long ago when
>>>> phone books were a thing). I had a couple of columns of namesakes
>>>> then.
>>>
>>> A guy I went to high school with texted me on my work phone a few
>>> years ago. He looked up my name + the city and got 2 hits. One was me
>>> and the other was Black girl who's an architect in the village where
>>> I live.
>>>
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>
> https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:Danish_given_names#The_most_co
>>>>> mm on_given_names_in_Denmark_1890_-_2008
>>>>
>>>> Well, colour me striped and call me a maypole. But that was in the
>>>> 1930s - I meant never in living memory.
>>>>
>>>
>>> I notice that my name was popular in your country in the 1910s. I
>>> guess it took 50 years for it to become popular in the colonies.
>>
>> Ahem. We don't have any colonies (any more). But yes we danes have
>> always been on the forefront on cultural issues...
>>
> 
> Pastries?
> Butter cookies?

That's a culinary issue.

> Teak furniture?

That's a carpentry issue.

I meant we've been aware of the "Karens" for a long time...

BeH