[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: The Sirius Black Racing Bicycle, Birthdays, etc

[John Walton]

Catlady (Rita Prince Winston) said:

> My goddaughter's parents, well I think it was actually her
> grandparents, decided that she should call grown-up Aunt and Uncle
> so-and-so. This is not actually alien to me, as I was taught to call
> my godmother Auntie Dorothy and her husband Uncle Vic, but I didn't
> feel about the idea of being called Auntie Rita, so I asked Do I have
> to be called Auntie Rita? I mean, it sounds so negative, like Anti-,
> so they gave me a special exemption to be Tante Rita. I think I could
> recognize myself better under the name Miss Rita than when physicians,
> bankers, and other androids call me Ms. Winston.

I call my godparents Aunt Joan and Uncle Tim. (the other godfather is
actually my uncle, so naturally I call him Uncle Stuart) Before I "grew up"
to my current chronological advancement, I called most of the people my
parents had been friends with for a long time "Aunt" and "Uncle". People
like former roommates, old college friends, that sort of thing.

--John

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John Walton -- john at walton.to

"My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
              --Percy Bysshe Shelly

(NB: "Bysshe" rhymes with "fish" not "fleish".)
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