You know, my name, Dale Wisely, is not that common. If you google it–and please don’t–almost every return is either me or just some random appearance of the English words “dale” and “wisely” on the same web page. In addition, a lot of people that are distantly related to me, including a crowd of them in the Bloomington, Indiana area, spell their names Wisley. So, anyway, enough about me. Well, not quite. So, imagine my surprise when I found this on the U.S. Department of State website: (http://foia.state.gov/MMS/KOH/key_country.asp?ID=Latvia)
Officer Name
AMB Catherine Todd Bailey
DCM Philip Antweiller
POL Frank Collins
CON Landon Taylor
MGT Mary Teirlynck
AFSA Alan Knabe
CLO Elizabeth Smith
CUS > Dale Wisely
DAO Dianne Leigh Sumner
ECO Mark Draper
GSO Harold E. Zappia
ICASS Chair Michael Brogan
IMO Alan J. Knabe
ISSO Alan Knabe
MLO Michael Brogan
PAO Victoria Sloan
RSO Michael Brown
State ICASS Mark Draper
Really spooky. I don’t think that’s me in Latvia.
I know a lot of you John Smiths and Mike Wilsons and Richard Johnsons out there are used to this kind of thing.
A thread titled Dale Wisely by Dale Wisely could only be followed by a thread titled ID by Sigmund Freud.
jus’ kiddin’ Dale
I can’t comment on the commonality of my name (it’s been tried by others here already ) because it might make me easier to track…
I will just include that my first name is Masonic in origin. The Tyler is the bloke with the big sword that guards the Lodge door from eavesdroppers, cowans, drywallers, and stucco artists.
It seems even spookier that there are three people named Alan Knabe on that list. Although one is Alan J. Knabe. Surely that name is not very common either.
I apparently signed the following petition sometime between 1828 and 1834:
“To the Honourable Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Tennessee Your petitioners humbly represent that they reside on the north side of the south fork of the Forked Deer River in Haywood Co., that the people on that side of the river have had a battalion ever since the organization of the County and they compose the second Battalion of the Eighty Sixth Regiment, that they have heretofore had to cross the swamp of the aforesaid river to attend all regimental musters, that the swamp is something like three miles wide and that it is often times wholly impassable. They therefore pray your honourable body to relieve them in the premises by dividing the regiment, giving to them a separate regiment on the north side of said river.”
and if you ever get BACK to that area of Tennessee, you’ll find out that is pronounced: Fork / ed. Not forked. Had that argument many a time over the title of a fiddle tune called “Fork / ed Deer”.
Funny you should mention that. The headquarters of the Royal Horticultural Society is at Wisley in Surrey in SE England. From now on I’ll always associate you with cabbages.
There are 6 people in the Cleveland telephone directory alone who are named Michael Burns, not to mention those who try to hide behind “M. Burns”, as if we didn’t know what “M” means. When we sold our last house about 12 years ago we discovered that two liens had been placed on it against two other guys named Michael Burns. And this is just Cleveland. I shudder to think how many people named Michael Burns live in New York or Chicago.
And I used to think I was unique.
Michael P Burns
My mum’s maiden name is Curliss, the “family seat” being in Co. Athlone. There are lots of Curlesses and Corlesses, but Curliss is quite rare. If you know one they’re probably related to me, the poor b*ggers!
Woollcombes ar a far-flung lot: an artist in NZ, various environmental lawyers, an international arms dealer, and a poet.
Only one Bryce. What was that quote about ‘any club that would have me as a member…’? Wilde, I think.
