Posted on 04/16/2021 4:29:45 PM PDT by SamAdams76
I knew a couple of older men named Shirley. One was a Methodist minister in Illinois. The other was a big, burley, tough, flat-topped Marine Corps veteran from Utah. He always went by Shirl.
Ok, I’ll post it. What the heck.
It’s Tonto Kowalski
...there, I said it
Yes, I know!
Carroll OConner...the actor.
.
There was a female country singer named Jean Shepard (last name spelled differently). They are often confused.
Was good friends with a boy named Sue.
(Actually it was Soo and he was Korean. But, boy, did he get teased!)
If Saturday Night Live was still funny they would do a skit with the basic premise where:
Cash’s ghost in heaven gets one day on earth to do anything he wants.
Cash asks to spend it at San Quentin to recreate his performance.
Cash starts out with ‘A Boy Named Sue’
Millennial prisoners go all woke with “intersectional” and 52’gender pronoun questions
It could’ve been worse....Sue could’ve been your hubby’s name.
I have a (female) cousin whose name is Sue. I don’t think she ever caught heck, when this song was popular, though.
Interesting that Jean Shepherd was the inspiration.
Love A Christmas Story.
Yep. I have confused them myself.
Thank you so much for putting that up just now.
I needed that smile.
I used to know a couple of boys named Sue! One was a classmate and the other, his older brother just completed his marine term in Vietnam.
Both were really good kids, and Sue was their last name. I met the older one just around the time the song came out.
Naturally, whhenever I hear that song, I think of those two kids...and now they’re old men.
As opposed to giving your son a normal name and actually sticking around to be a father to your child.
Sorry, but I don't give this "father" the slightest bit of sympathy or understanding.
It’s a made up story.
Just like that one about the Harper Valley PTA.
Had a friend named Shirley...first name...short, hairy great guy....hell of a plumber!
Well Archie Bunker was played by Carroll
O’Connor and there was Carroll Spinney
of Sesame Street..maybe born around
Christmas, so a Christmas Carroll?
Vivian Stanshall of Bonzo Dog Band—male.
Once I called up Alligator Records, a blues label in Chicago and asked to speak to Kerry Peace. “Kerry isn’t in now,”
I was told.
Asked when she would be in and was
told Kerry was a he.
Shirley Povich—Sports writer I think
Yes.
Once was browsing in a book store and saw
a mention of “Gene Shepherd” (sic) in
one of Michael Savage’s books (as in, I would listen to radio personality..)
Alice?
Is that you?! 😎
The boy’s name in the movie A Christmas
Story was Ralph Parker...surname
taken from “Shep”’s middle name—
Jean Parker Shepherd
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