| HL is one of the oddest consonant clusters to start any name or word with; hlots of us hlive with it. |
Hlaments
There's always someone making nasty with the HL thing.
Hlaments
Hlaments
From Tom Hlaban: "I went to Walgreens to
pick up a prescription, and on tray was marked 'E-Hi' and
the next box was marked 'Ho-K.' Apparently Walgreens
doesnt' do buisness with people named Hlanything. When
I explained my name to the pharmacist she reached right
into the L box and pulled out my envelope." I hear you
Tom. The same things happens at my Walgreens. But
here they "solve" the problem by putting the little bag with
the drugs right between the two bins.
Hlump or Hlament -- you make the choice. I was
working in a corporate office dnw in Florida a few years
back. The company installed a new voice mail system,
basically getting rid of the receptionist. With the new
system the caller was to punch int he first three letters of
the last name untiol recongized and then it would switech
the caller to that extension. One small problem: They didn't
program the possibility of "HLA" beign the firswt three
letters. So the caller got a message saying "no such
extension." When I brought this to the boss's attention he
got the bright idea that I should change my last name. "Let
me see here -- you want me to change a 500 year old
family name to meet hte requirements of your three week
old voice mail system?" "Yes," he said, seriously too.
"Where's the ethnic heritage police when you need 'em?" I
replied. I proposed a solution: "program the phones to
send all variants of my name to me -- Hla, Hal, Lav, Laz,
Lac etc, and then I'll be sure to cover every possible
parameter." The boss insisted that I was interfering with
the workings of the company. I got the network
administrator to channel all unrecongized names to my
extension -- and boy did that boost my sales!
There's always someone making nasty with the HL thing.
Hlaments
Hlaments
From Tom Hlaban: "I went to Walgreens to
pick up a prescription, and on tray was marked 'E-Hi' and
the next box was marked 'Ho-K.' Apparently Walgreens
doesnt' do buisness with people named Hlanything. When
I explained my name to the pharmacist she reached right
into the L box and pulled out my envelope." I hear you
Tom. The same things happens at my Walgreens. But
here they "solve" the problem by putting the little bag with
the drugs right between the two bins.
Hlump or Hlament -- you make the choice. I was
working in a corporate office dnw in Florida a few years
back. The company installed a new voice mail system,
basically getting rid of the receptionist. With the new
system the caller was to punch int he first three letters of
the last name untiol recongized and then it would switech
the caller to that extension. One small problem: They didn't
program the possibility of "HLA" beign the firswt three
letters. So the caller got a message saying "no such
extension." When I brought this to the boss's attention he
got the bright idea that I should change my last name. "Let
me see here -- you want me to change a 500 year old
family name to meet hte requirements of your three week
old voice mail system?" "Yes," he said, seriously too.
"Where's the ethnic heritage police when you need 'em?" I
replied. I proposed a solution: "program the phones to
send all variants of my name to me -- Hla, Hal, Lav, Laz,
Lac etc, and then I'll be sure to cover every possible
parameter." The boss insisted that I was interfering with
the workings of the company. I got the network
administrator to channel all unrecongized names to my
extension -- and boy did that boost my sales!
