Saturday, March 6, 2010

Some architect named Raimund Abraham...

...died in Manhattan, at age 76. You read that right, R-A-I-M-U-N-D (he was born in Austria). Whatever. Who knows, maybe the German spelling is better than ours? But what a pain that must have been all his life!

"Name?"

"Raimund Abraham. My first name is spelled--"

"I know how to spell Raymond! You think I'm stupid, or something, just because I work at the Department of Motor Vehicles?"

"No, it's just--"

"I have an Uncle Raymond! I know how to spell Raymond!"

"Sorry. I--"

"You artsy-fartsy types look down on people from Staten Island like me, don'tcha?"

"No, no--"

"And what's with that fake European-sounding accent? Knock it off!"

"I, I--"

"Now then; how do you spell Abraham?"

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