Re: The price of oil
Merlyne <[email protected]>
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BeH <[email protected]> wrote in news:[email protected]: > 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... > I'm guessing in 1910 they weren't privileged white women with perfectly coifed hair who yell 'I want to see the manager'.