File spoon-archives/anarchy-list.archive/anarchy-list_2003/anarchy-list.0303, message 448


Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2003 19:02:21 +0100
From: Ze Sprout <anarchie-AT-buelinckx.net>
Subject: Re: Reply to James Drury


Are all you Dave Coulls sure that you are the only Dave Coull on this list ?

Erik

At 02:07 +0000 14-03-2003, Dave Coull wrote:
...
>Dave Coull is the son of a Mr. and Mrs. Coull. Although
>"Coull" (the correct Scottish pronunciation is "cool") 
>may seem quite an unusual name, in certain parts of Scotland 
>it is in fact extremely common. I once lived in a block 
>of flats in the town of Montrose. Somebody asked one of 
>my neighbours which flat Dave Coull lived in. My neighbour 
>replied "which one?" and got the answer "Dave Coull the bricklayer", 
>to which my neighbour responded "which one?", and got the answer
>"Dave Coull the bricklayer from the village of Ferryden", 
>to which my neighbour responded "which one?"  - in the end 
>it turned out they were looking for the  _other_  Dave Coull 
>the bricklayer from the village of Ferryden who lived in 
>the same block of flats as myself. But although there are
>loads of Coulls, and quite a lot of them called Dave, where
>I come from, I'm the only Dave Coull on this list. Many 
>people posting to the anarchy-list tend to use pseudonyms 
>rather than their given names, so simply using the name 
>you grew up with may have the effect of making you stand 
>out from the crowd.
>
>
>Dave Coull

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