Boule’tard wrote on 01/11/11 at 12:30:32:Yeah, what's the prize for the best butchering of your name?
Last name: Andruschak -- just the way is looks, "An - Drus - Chak," but most people said it like "An Drew Shack." It is usually pronounced as " ah... ah... " One instructor in USAF Tech School said "Alphabet."
But the best butchering happened when I was in the U.S. Air Force in Turkey. There was a little donkey that who came up to people the fence to get cigaretts -- not to smoke, but to eat. Once the owner was there and we asked it's name. "Edna Ashack -- ashack is the Turkish word for an Ass." Hence my nickname.
I didn't mind the name, but friends sometimes had problems. Beaulieau and I where in Gold Street in Izmir. I was about 50 feet away when he saw something and asked me, "Hey, AShack!" About 100 Turks turned to see whom he was calling an jackass. I didn't know him, I quietly faded out.