on 08/02/02 12:12, [EMAIL PROTECTED] shared with me:
> By the way, it's MACRae. Ironic, isn't it?
>
> -Brendan MacRae
Not especially, since it mearly means that you are derived from a long
succesion of women who were screwed by Scots. Yours were the male
descendants of a guy named Rae.
As am I. From some Scot named Alestaire some hundreds of generations ago.
(The Mac denotes "son of")
And proud of it!
(From the clan MacAlestaire, became MacAlester, then MacAllister, and now
perhaps finalized with McAllister, the 'c' being raised to supertext, and
having a vertically aligned = sign as a base. Visually:
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/
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ll
though some make do with a single dash under the 'c':
__
/
\__
__
At the last convention I attended of the Clan MacAlestair in Omaha,
Nebraska, there were a dozen variations of the name's spelling.
Enough?
JoMac, Pentaxian
"Pentax, Quadraphonic, Betamax, Macintosh"
and above the rest.
k t,
s e n
Living life a w o
almost parallel to, r
yet ever so slightly o u t -------> f
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