Re: The price of oil
BeH <[email protected]>
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On 14.10.2022 13.46, Merlyne wrote: > 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'. > Probably not. I can't think of any turn-of-the-century danes that would inspire the popularity. BeH