"Andrea"

[Wilson Gray]

On 1/4/06, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> You mean the _Andrea Doria_ was named for a guy ?
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>   Who knew ?
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>   JL



Dear Lord! Why is youth wasted on the young?! ;-)

But, seriously, folks, why does the universe have to operate so as to make
it necessary to live about 75 years in order to learn how to live life and
then you die, without ever getting a chance to take advantage of all that
accumulated knowledge?

It must be some kind of quantum-effect paradox. If you could re-live your
life and do X instead of Y at time T, you'd once again be living a life
about whose future you knew nothing. It's just the time-travel paradox
restated. As South Park's Token Black expostulated, when he discovered that
simply being black was enough to give him the ability to play the electric
bass, just as Cartman had predicted: "God damn it!"

-Wilson Gray

> Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
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> For a very long time, it seems to me, a distinction was made between
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> "ANdrea," a feminine name, and Italian "anDREa," a masculine name
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> to English "Andrew." Recently, I've noticed that there are a lot of women
> and girls being addressed as "anDREa." Now, I've just heard an
> Italian-American guy named Salvatore Piazza refer to his wife as "anDREa."
> If the distinction no longer matters even among Italian-Americans, what
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> you do? Another one bites the dust. Sigh.
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> -Wilson Gray
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