From: "Antti Kurenniemi" 

"David N. Barnett"  wrote in message
news:op8mcvcupss5uakrptt02japhq21hrj11l{at}4ax.com...
> I don't know how or when it happened, but sometime recently I stopped
> being David and started being Dave.
>
> Like the man from St. Louis who shares my initials, for most of my
> life I insisted on using both syllables of my given name.  But after a
> while I stopped correcting people when they called me "Dave," although
> it still jarred my ears to hear it.  From that I gradually made the
> transition to a state where it didn't bother me so much, and I just
> rolled with it, but if someone asked me my name I still always
> introduced myself as "David."
>
> But all my co-workers, and all but my oldest friends and family, call
> me "Dave."  And that is what I have become.  Last week I caught myself
> introducing myself to someone as "Dave."  So it's come to this.  I'm
> "Dave" now, and I guess I'm comfortable with it.
>
> I have no idea what this means.

It means that you're half the man you used to be - but in name only.


Antti Kurenniemi
(aka Andy)

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