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Current Events => General Discussion => Topic started by: Evil_Conservative on October 28, 2010, 08:49:38 PM
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Call me slow, but I just found out today that Michael Savage's real name is Michael Weiner. And his son, Russell, is the founder of Rockstar energy drinks. I love that stuff.
Can I get a pass though? Since I'm not a huge fan of Savage?
:loser:
Oh, and does anyone know why he changed his name?
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Yes and No.
I heard Mark Levin this morning instead of the usual local talker. I have to say it was much more interesting. For some reason, the local guy is jarring first thing in the morning.
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Call me slow, but I just found out today that Michael Savage's real name is Michael Weiner. And his son, Russell, is the founder of Rockstar energy drinks. I love that stuff.
Can I get a pass though? Since I'm not a huge fan of Savage?
:loser:
Oh, and does anyone know why he changed his name?
Michael Savage is an acquired taste. He covers much more than politics: cooking, good eats, sailing, pets, movies et al.
He changed his name because many years back the liberal commies used his real name to try and hack his finances and threaten his family, among other offenses.
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Michael Savage is an acquired taste. He covers much more than politics: cooking, good eats, sailing, pets, movies et al.
He changed his name because many years back the liberal commies used his real name to try and hack his finances and threaten his family, among other offenses.
Oh thanks!
I only listen to Savage from 3pm-4:30pm. So I don't get a full taste of what his show is all about. I do like his nutritional advice.
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If you shared a name with Anthony Weiner, wouldn't you change it too?
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Yes and No.
I heard Mark Levin this morning instead of the usual local talker. I have to say it was much more interesting. For some reason, the local guy is jarring first thing in the morning.
I listen to Mark Levin on my way home. I like him. And Laura Ingraham, but she is on after Mark, so unless I hit a happy hour, I don't hear Ingraham.
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Some people don't care to be associated with their Jewish ancestry. There are a significant number of movie stars that changed their names as to not be associated with some sort of ethnic group. Charles Bronson is one. He's Russian. There are a LOT of Jewish actors that changed their names, too.
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Oh thanks!
I only listen to Savage from 3pm-4:30pm. So I don't get a full taste of what his show is all about. I do like his nutritional advice.
Savage is the MAN! I listen to him every night. He does mix it up every night. Dude's got some serious knowledge and you learn something new every day. :cheersmate:
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I listen to Savage, although I like Levin better (and Rush even more).
Savage has more of a variety than the other guys, though. You don't get to hear about "dead man's pants" anywhere else. :cheersmate:
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Savage has more of a variety than the other guys, though. You don't get to hear about "dead man's pants" anywhere else. :cheersmate:
Yeah, but he sure does spend a lot of time talking about himself. Yawn.
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Yeah, but he sure does spend a lot of time talking about himself. Yawn.
And complaining about all of the other radio hosts.
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If you shared a name with Anthony Weiner, wouldn't you change it too?
Good point. H5 for that.
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Some people don't care to be associated with their Jewish ancestry. There are a significant number of movie stars that changed their names as to not be associated with some sort of ethnic group. Charles Bronson is one. He's Russian. There are a LOT of Jewish actors that changed their names, too.
Charles Bronson is Russian ?? I wonder what Claude Adkins was, he and C. Bronson were my two top favorite tough guys in the movies.
You know, when some of our great grandparents came to this country and registered at Ellis Island, the Sir names were in some cases too difficult for those recording them to spell just on pronouncing alone.
Quite a few names were shortened from 10 letters to 5-6 or less. If the immigrant could spell their name made little difference the recorders could do as they wanted.
Some immigrants that went into business would shorten their names to place on signs on their business. Signs were expensive and it was cheaper to shorten the name.
Then there was the English language that say a man from Europe with the name Don K. Penis would become Don K. pine, or Penn.
Hollywood----John Wayne as a tough hombre with the name Marion that would not do.
Most name changes went with the time and the fashion of names, to my knowledge there has only been one Greta used for a name besides Garbo. Only one Tuesday Weld, and just one Lady GA-GA.
Check out the name Judy Garland was born with.
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You know, when some of our great grandparents came to this country and registered at Ellis Island, the Sir names were in some cases too difficult for those recording them to spell just on pronouncing alone.
Quite a few names were shortened from 10 letters to 5-6 or less. If the immigrant could spell their name made little difference the recorders could do as they wanted.
Some immigrants that went into business would shorten their names to place on signs on their business. Signs were expensive and it was cheaper to shorten the name.
Vesta, I've got to stop you on the point you're trying to make about Ellis Island; because for the most part, what you are saying simply did not happen. The ship manifests that contained the names of the passengers were created by the ship captains who transported the immigrants to the United States.
The responsibility of the officials at Ellis Island was to make sure the names on the manifest matched up with the immigrants on board; they were not allowed to change names, except under permission from the person whose name they were changing. Now, I'm not saying it may not have happened a few times by accident, but this whole rigmarole about Ellis Island officials changing the surnames of passengers just isn't the case.
Case in point, one of my ancestors sailed over here from Havre, France. She was Hungarian, and had a name of "Boriska Moravcek". She had four children, a sister, and her husband's name listed in the manifest, all spelled correctly on the manifest. She made it through Ellis Island, with no mistakes being made on any of the names, and later chose to change her name to a simpler Barbara Morovchek.
My source is from my mother's 15+ years in researching our families genealogy. She can't say I never learned anything from her. :hammer:
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Vesta, I've got to stop you on the point you're trying to make about Ellis Island; because for the most part, what you are saying simply did not happen. The ship manifests that contained the names of the passengers were created by the ship captains who transported the immigrants to the United States.
The responsibility of the officials at Ellis Island was to make sure the names on the manifest matched up with the immigrants on board; they were not allowed to change names, except under permission from the person whose name they were changing. NOW, I'm not saying it may not have happened a few times by accident, but this whole rigmarole about Ellis Island officials changing the surnames of passengers just isn't the case.
Case in point, one of my ancestors sailed over here from Havre, France. She was Hungarian, and had a name of "Boriska Moravcek". She had four children, a sister, and her husband's name listed in the manifest, all spelled correctly on the manifest. She made it through Ellis Island, with no mistakes being made on any of the names, and later chose to change her name to a simpler Barbara Morovchek.
My source is from my mother's 15+ years in researching our families genealogy. She can't say I never learned anything from her. :hammer:
Thank you, perhaps this information I received was Before Ellis Island was up and running---who knows.
My mothers side came to Canada from France with a name that today is spelt 5-6 different ways. They shortened their name to 4 letters when they opened a boarding house as the French were not that well thought of in Mass. at that time. It still is pronounced the same as the original that has 9 letters.
My older sons family's grandfather came from Finnland. Both great grandparents came here from Finnland. It was only after the death of his fathers father, that his birth certificate was found and it placed his country of birth as Russia.
Wars for a long time moved the boarders in that part of the world back and forth so one brother born in a Russian town and his brother born a year later in the same town was born in Finnland.
What was the song from the 40's ----Take me back to Constantinople, no I can't go back to Constantinople - it is now Istanbul.
Then closer to home, in Europe the Christian Churches that saved the children of familys that were Communists, Gay, Jews and Jehovah Witnesses among others that had to forge birth certificates for the children to change the last names spelling to keep them alive.
Battle, please pick through my statements of what I was taught and if anything is incorrect, correct me as I hate being uninformed about the things my teachers taught me.
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Call me slow, but I just found out today that Michael Savage's real name is Michael Weiner. And his son, Russell, is the founder of Rockstar energy drinks. I love that stuff.
Can I get a pass though? Since I'm not a huge fan of Savage?
:loser:
Oh, and does anyone know why he changed his name?
You are Hawt, so you get a pass on the Slow part.
You like Rock Star...so a bitchslap is coming- but that's not a bad thing.
Would you change your name if you were "Mike Weiner"?
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blaa blaa bla...Sir names....blaa blaa blaa...
Jane, you ignorant slut.