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Author: Ralph Katz
Date: 2003-07-09 13:30
I work in a large manufacturing facility and one of my jobs is to process requests for new computer ID's and passwords. Just about everyone in the place who uses a computer knows me, as many as 1000 people at any given time. There is a fair amount of turnover here - processing security requests is a 2-3 hour a day job for the guy who has it now.
Two years ago, this fellow walks up with a signed Login Request Form, and the name on it is "Anthony Gigliotti". I so wanted to blurt out "Oh, come on, now!", but what I said was "Is this really your name?"
Mr. Gigliotti is a Toolmaker. His middle initial is "F".
Today his name came up again. His network account has not been used in 90 days, and according to house rules I had to suspend him.
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Author: David Spiegelthal ★2017
Date: 2003-07-09 14:04
Just for fun I did a search on Google.com for "Anthony Gigliotti" and came up with many such individuals who were not the famous clarinettist, so I conclude it's probably a fairly common first/last name combination.
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Author: BobD
Date: 2003-07-09 14:25
.....as well as close spelling variations. The question is how is it pronounced?
"Jig-lee-otti" or "Jiggle-otti"?
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Author: Ralph Katz
Date: 2003-07-09 15:16
jheel-yachty, etc.
There was a piece on NPR a week or so ago by one Joe Bevelaqua (sp?) who actually called all 44 of his namesakes in the US.
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Author: Katrina
Date: 2003-07-09 16:33
I remember one lesson with Robert Marcellus while I was at Northwestern when he asked what mp I was using and when I said "Jig-lee-otti" he gave me a lesson in how to pronounce the name! It was very amusing, I thought.
And the way he pronounced it was: Zheel-yot-ti, with a long "o."
Katrina
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Author: BobD
Date: 2003-07-09 23:30
Mr. G was probably a bit sensitive about the pron. of his name. ....as many artists are.
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Author: Avie
Date: 2003-07-10 00:16
Why suspend him? Anthony Gigliotti is a very common Irish name :-)
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Author: BobD
Date: 2003-07-10 12:45
Maybe he doesn't know the rules, too busy making tools...
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Author: BobD
Date: 2003-07-10 13:00
I was introduced to a guy the other day who said his name was Ralph Katz. I said, "You gotta be kidding."
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Author: ken
Date: 2003-07-10 14:59
I bumped into another Mark Charette last month and had an uncontrollable urge to pull out my checkbook...hehe.
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Author: Ralph Katz
Date: 2003-07-10 18:04
BobD:
Have you Googled yourself lately?
There are a number of other Ralph Katz's: a star Bridge player, a couple of doctors, a high-powered business consultant, and a Cantor in the Dallas area who sings G&S. My only webpage reference is buried on the 18'th screen of Google hits.
There is another Ralph Katz who lives about 20 miles from me. I found out about him after a cousin in Texas called him by mistake a dozen years ago.
In 2000, an old friend who is a funeral director called, upset, responding to a call from Ralph Katz, whose father Joseph had just passed away. We knew about this: both Joe's were in the same hospital. Two weeks later my father passed away. So we had two Joseph Katz's, pass away in the same hospital, within two weeks of one another, and their sons both Ralph Katz, called the same funeral home, and spoke with the same funeral director.
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Author: MusicAddict87
Date: 2003-07-11 06:33
There's a Miles Davis in my grade at school...that took me be surprise flipping through the yearbook. Unfortunately he's not a musician!
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Author: BobD
Date: 2003-07-11 13:49
"BobD:
Have you Googled yourself lately?"
Yes, at least once a week. I didn't "get your drift" re just why you thought Mr.G's name was strange or unique. Readers with an Italian ancestry certainly don't think his name is strange, nor do I.
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Author: Sarah
Date: 2003-07-11 14:05
Judy Garland comes in and rents videos from me every week or so.
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Author: Henry
Date: 2003-07-11 16:00
And in the company I used to work for there was a Linda Lovelace!
Never got to know her intimately, though.
By the way, my manager was Andrew Jackson. Not kidding!
Henry
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Author: ken
Date: 2003-07-11 17:12
(Right hand on Bible) Once, while serving in an Air Force Field Band we were the formation/marching unit for the 30-year retirement ceremony of a Colonel "Red" Dickensheetz. And, if that wasn't ridiculous enough when the 4-Star General called his wife forward to receive her certificate of appreciation he called her B.J.!!
While standing at attention for 40 minutes and fighting to not bust a gut choking back the tears (along with 99% of the band) I had to wonder what kind of ribbing the poor Colonel had to endure earlier in his career when he was just a "Major". v/r Ken
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Author: BobD
Date: 2003-07-11 20:14
Tom Paine was once my boss and I knew Merle Turnipseed. and then there are those Russian paperback writers.
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Author: Vic
Date: 2003-07-11 20:24
Once, about ten years ago, our local paper had a news article about a (my hand is also on a bible) Dr. Peter Cockschott. I've always thought that it was a practical joke cooked up by a couple of young reporters who somehow managed to get it slipped by the copy editor, or whatever you'd call it.
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Author: John Scorgie
Date: 2003-07-11 23:24
Thanks, Ralph Katz and Katrina, for educating folks on the correct way to pronounce this name.
Chop off the last two syllables and you also have the correct way to pronounce the often massacred name of the great (est?) Italian tenor Beniamino Gigli.
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Author: Mark Pinner
Date: 2003-07-11 23:41
The married name of my first mother in law was Heidi Ho!
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Author: Mark Charette
Date: 2003-07-11 23:42
And this thread is now closed. Things were getting tasteless ...
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