re: head

re: head is pronounced riette, just so you know.

Just carry on making fun - in your next life I might be your mother, and I'll call you Douw Gerbrandt!

what a name! How did you come up with such a clever name?

My mother did - it's my brother's name! Mum is probably the world's most uncool name-giver! At least Sonja got a proper name, but apparently she was nearly named, Darradi!!!!! ha-ha! Whatever you do, don't tease Sonja with this if and when she logs in - she'll KILL me. Calling her Darradi when we were children was the worst torment I could inflict upon her - I always ended up bleeding for it too!

I've seen some funny spellings of Riette's name when people have taken telephone messages from her. How about: Reyed, or maybe Riet? :)

I'm used to it. I've seen versions of Ri�tte you would not BELIEVE on birthday-/X-mas cards. My favourites are: (the afore mentioned) Riet Reed Riedah Rihat (say, what sort of a hat??) Rietie ha-ha!!! My brother is even more unlucky. He's had versions like 'Dough' and 'Dew' and 'Doh' - which absolutely MAKES Sonja's year, because, even though she nearly got the worst name of all, she ended up with the best and easiest. Damn her!

Our greatest sibling weapon guaranteed to wound/draw blood was whispering about him/her being adopted.

OOH! That's mean! ha-ha! We had a similar one, where we would name the things that Mum lured him/her out of the gutter with. Like sour porridge, or dirty knickers, or dog vomit, or pricked pimples, etc. etc.. Isa already calls Elza 'holletjie', which means, 'little ar$ehole'!

Dog vomit? That's sick! (LOL) Do you think our little angels will get so mean-spirited?

I hope so! Otherwise I'd feel so ashamed!