On Feb 29, 7:55 pm, "Olin"
comcast.net> wrote:>> maxo wrote:
>>>> On 2008-02-29 15:48:04 -0600, maxo
gmail.com> said:>
>>>>> Sidney--such a pusillanimous middle name, could that be the reason
>>>>> McCain doesn't use it? Fear of being beaten up in the Senate chamber?
>>>>> Can you imagine Bernie Sanders straddling a horizontal Senator McCain,
>>>>> giving him a wet willy while shouting, "MY TIME HAS COME!!"?
>>>> Isn't that pronounced "Thidney?"
>
>>> Stamp your foot for effect!
>
>>> McCain's oratory *has* been Thidniesthque on the stump. What's up with
>>> that? Such insipid tonality.
>
>> Trying not to piss anybody (else) off?
>
>> jak
>
> Better him than me. Had my father lived beyond my birth, I would have been
> "Sidney Leon" after his brother who flew bombers for the Canadian Air Force
> in WWII. Flew one too many, in fact, and is buried over there.
>
> Alas, he died too, and my mother honored him by naming me after him, albeit
> with a different middle name so I wouldn't get tagged with "Junior."
>
> I do wish my father had lived, but I've never been sure I'd have enjoyed
> life as either a Sidney OR a Leon, much less both of 'em.
To be honest, "Sidney Leon" is pretty badass--but it's a name for guys
that requires tending, like "Leslie". You gotta work it in a Johnny
Cash Sorta way. I'm a child of the 70s and "Sidney" always makes me
think of the compassionate headshrink on MASH. That character's
attitude left as much a mark on me as reading those commie Kurt
Vonnegut books.
I wish your father had lived too.
