My bf’s family gives everyone standard American first names trying to approximate a Chinese name (although since I don’t know Chinese I don’t see the cognates for Beverly & Stanley, etc.) & then give classic Chinese middle names.
“If so, they should realize we’ll likely spend much more on booze than we would have on food plus they’ll have a chance to get lots of word of mouth and word of blog praise from us.”
This is exactly what I was thinking, and how I was planning to pitch it to them.
G10, I definitely noticed a higher than normal number of Asian females with names like Wendy, Alice, Olivia, etc. But I have no idea why. I’ll defer to M4L and chicken’s theories / explanations.
Arkady, your bf is Asian? Is that why we’ve never seen you bring him out to an event DIBS was at?
Bloomers will only get voted back in if its the will of the current residents of the city. Thats simple democracy.
So then all you hand wringers can rest easy.
“If only we had videos of prior gatherings”
I’ll just bring them a printout of the OT from the day after Ellis!
My bf’s family gives everyone standard American first names trying to approximate a Chinese name (although since I don’t know Chinese I don’t see the cognates for Beverly & Stanley, etc.) & then give classic Chinese middle names.
“On the other hand, perhaps it’s better we don’t…”
Correct!
“we do mean to impress upon them that this group will likely drink more than they’d make on food!”
If only we had videos of prior gatherings to prove how true that is. On the other hand, perhaps it’s better we don’t…
“If so, they should realize we’ll likely spend much more on booze than we would have on food plus they’ll have a chance to get lots of word of mouth and word of blog praise from us.”
This is exactly what I was thinking, and how I was planning to pitch it to them.
G10, I definitely noticed a higher than normal number of Asian females with names like Wendy, Alice, Olivia, etc. But I have no idea why. I’ll defer to M4L and chicken’s theories / explanations.
“Cobble, would they expect everyone to order food, do you know?”
We need to find that out, we do mean to impress upon them that this group will likely drink more than they’d make on food!