Guess what her birthday is

There are still a few “Marksena’s” running around in the countries which do!

Awkward names can metamorphosize into magic. The name of a German poet, Klopstock means knockstick, but when you say his name it evokes streams of pre-romantic storm and stress lyrical poetry.

I had a friend called Dorothea Umbrellamaker (Schirmmacher). When I first knew her I found it hard not to giggle, but now the name sounds perfectly normal.

Mozart’s full name was Johann Chrysostom Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

My father was determined that his children would have only one normal sounding first name. I am responsible my self for adding an unwanted middle name. My name had sounded like a real hard brick of a Germanic name and I wanted to get rid of it. I felt like those people who say they are women trapped in a man’s body. I adopted a my mother’s name and Felix from the composer Mendelssohn, Greta Garbo’s lover in Grand Hotel, and Schumann’s youngest son. But I was advised to keep the unwanted German name as a middle name so that there would be some connection to the birth certificate.

I’m in favour of name-changing. Doris Day sounds better than Dorothy Kappelhofer,

In the early days of British ballet Russian names had to be adopted, so Alice Marks became Alicia Markova. Later new English names were adopted, so Margaret Eveylin Hookham became Margot Fonteyn, Lynn Springrett became Lynn Seymour. More recently British dancers no longer change their names so you can have Swan Lake danced by Betsy Plunkett.

Now come on Mettaculture, you yourself say how much you appreciate the rich and valuable contribution made by racists as a group to our island’s heritage. And didn’t you say that it’s ok to be racist, because Winston Churchill was ?

So you should really take it as a compliment when someone calls you a racist.

The “Roman Party” is listed in the [Reading] Evening Post as:

‘Jean-Louis Pascual, a bus driver who was born in France but has lived in this counrty for 11 years, explained the Roman Party referred to the phrase “When in Rome do as the Romans do”.

He said: “This is all about people coming to this country and becoming part of the community.

“There are some people who come here and stay separate, living in groups and keeping to their own culture.

“It is fine to keep in your own culture in your home, but outside it you should not be separate.”

Mr Pascual, 36, of Watlington Street, is standing for Reading Borough Council because he wants to be a “minister or president” in his own country.

He told the Evening Post: “I believe that if I get recognition in this country then I will be recognised in my own country. It is difficult to come to power in France if you are not wealthy.”

He said because he was single and without children and family here, he could not be corrupted.

He also suggests British jails should be moved abroad to Russia and the money saved should be spent on the NHS.

Here in Eastern England, Jasmijn De Boo is the leader of an “animal rights” (groan) party called “Animals Count”; I believe for once the Glenda Slagg line about “crazy name, crazy person” might have a ring of truth about it.

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