Mar 28 2005
Call Me Hameulaul
I never use my real name when I order a pizza or any kind of take-out, because the person taking my order always gets my last name wrong, the spelling and the pronounciation. It’s pronounced as if you were saying, “I’m going over to Karen’s house.” Cairns. Not Canes or Carnes or Koons or Raisins — yes, someone actually wrote down Raisins once.
So I use a fake name when I order pizza: Hemingway. I love it because, unlike when I tell them my real name, I never have to repeat myself when I say it, and I never have to spell it for them (so they can still get it wrong). People hear Hemingway and they’ve got it, done deal… That is, until last night. How do you get this out of Hemingway?
Jody posted something about ordering pizza under a different name around the time he was setting up this site. So you both do that, huh? You can only imagine the funky concoctions they use to spell my name (Weagle).
Lotus Notes spell checker has the following suggestions for “Weagle” : Wiggle, waggle, weasel. There’s no point, I just thought it was funny.
Yeah, but how do you pronounce Weagle? Spelling is only half the mangling.
o’neil
o’neal
o’niel
o’neel
o’knee (wtf)
o’neill
Try Rekounas. My wife pronounces it “Raccoon’s Ass.” Not funny, not funny at all! When I played high school football, the commentators for the game called me “Rekolonis.” The following week I spoke with the man and I gave him the correct pronounciation. The following game, “Rekolonis with the kick…” Kind of sticks with you.
Raccoon Ass, I thought my last name was a headache. So how DO you pronounce your name?
It’s simple. Re-koo-nas. Rekounas. In Greek is is spelled Ρεκουνας and pronounced Rekounas.