>-----Original Message-----
>From: llile@SALTONUSA.COM [mailto:llile@SALTONUSA.COM]
>Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2004 10:53 AM
>To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
>Subject: Re: [OT]: Names (was stirling engines)
>
>
>To add to the S/N ratio:
>
>Why am I called Lawrence?  Not Larry?
>
>Well, 6 or 7 generations ago, a family of Liles who could barely spell
>their own names moved to Missouri with Daniel Boone.  Some of them =
spelled
>it Lisle, Some of them spelled it Lyle, and so on.  Each succedding
>generation had 12 children until the 1890's.  One line resulted in me,
>Larry Lile, and another line resulted in a distant cousin, Larry Lisle.
>Larry Lisle got a job at Toastmaster first.  When I showed up, utter
>confusion in the mail room could only be thwarted by me being Lawrence. =
 I
>kinda liked the new moniker so I started using it everywhere.  Ever =
since
>Moe, Larry and Curly, the name "Larry" has not seemed very dignified =
IMHO.
> "Leisure Suit Larry" did not do anything to improve our reputation
>either.
>
>-- Lawrence Lile
>Senior Project Engineer
>Toastmaster, Inc.


Well Said, brother Lile!
I might add a certain crocodile to the list. 8^)

Lyle Hazelwood

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