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The Name Game

Too many people can't spell my last name. You don't have to be a rocket scientist to figure out that there's no “e” in Pirillo. Or maybe you do? From this point forward, I'll only answer to Chris 3.14rillo. It's so… mathematic. I oughta get my driver's license changed to reflect this moniker transmogrification. Pirilleaux would undoubtedly be the French derivative, but I'm a full-blooded Italian. C is the speed of light, but some muppet once said that C is for cookie. Coincidence? Consider this: why do you think these circular pastries disappear into thin air whenever you put them in the jar? It's not a simple container. Oh no, it's an interdimensional transportation device. Think about it. Seriously.

22 Comments

I still think P.Lo should be your new name.
Then in 2 years you can rename yourself “P Diddlo”

ma sa what do dat mean
all us dum retard cajun
add eaux to every thing you r chris Pirilleaux
ma sha

It's good enough for me.

So thats where my cookies went. Dang!

I know what you mean about the cookies man. When they start disappearing, my appetite goes down. Is this normal? I think there may be some sort of connection here.

Anyone that shares my initials is a-ok in my book. ;)
I have a clear cookie jar, which increases the factor of disappearance by twofold. I should get one that is black and airtight… like my soul.

hmmm interesting theory on the universe i may have to steal it and make it my claim to fame:D

My last name is one of the most common in this country and I rarely see it spelt right by anyone else…Shafiq becomes Shafik or Syafiq or Syafik or worse still SHAFIO!!!! :P

dang! just remembered that Shafiq isn't a common American name. When I said “this country” I meant Malaysia :)

If I had a buck for everytime someone spelled my last name or pronounced it wrong… I'd have me a Mac G4 right now. :)

Ok everyone, Chris now needs to take a breath and count to 5 the Count is here to help, …ready? Uh Cookie, keep out of the cookie jar, your confusing Chris.

Damn, Kris, cut 'em some slack.

Don't feel to bad Chris, my first AND last names get mispelled/mispronounced all the time. Sean is pronounced as “seen” most of the time, and mispelled as Shawn. Garrett get spelled with out either one R, one T, or both.

I understand where you're coming from too Chris, my last name gets misspelled and mispronounced so much it's not funny. I had an english teacher once insist I was spelling my last name wrong because of the I before E rule and I had to explain to this teacher that my last name is a German last name and it does not follow that rule.

My last name is either Polish or Ukrainian. I'm not sure which. But it's been a real bitch getting people to my website when my domain name is my last name. Maybe I should have registered thepolishguy.com or something.

Also, according to your theory, if C is the speed of light, and C is also a cookie, then by associative properties a cookie is the speed of light. It would therefore be possible to calculate the relative bandwidth provided by a cookie given that a cookie travels approximately 186,000 miles/second in a vacuum.
Okay, I'm geeking out.

There's a reason I go by Tyler M. Maciolek has been misspelled and/or mispronounced so many times its easier just to cut things down.

Dang Chris, you didn't take your ritalin again today did you?????

I've met some people that don't know how to pronounce my name correctly. To cover things up, they came up with “What you say your name was again?”. And Syafiq – it's just a matter of somebody giving you a piece of paper and pen; that will sort out the problem…
Ppl often misspell my name by putting an extra A. Wish it is a grade… phew..

Amazing how so many last names sound like they're spelled and are spelled like they sound, yet people still can't get them right. Pirillo seems pretty obvious to me. You'd think my last name wouldn't be a problem, but I've become used to the fact that I have “several” last names…Tinker, Fincher, Lincher, Pincher.
I wonder if Gorbechev wasn't a political figure what he'd be called.

I know what you mean. Sometimes I think people can't get any dumber whent they spell Loomis Loumis. Who spells Loomis wiht an ou?

sweet virgin mary in heaven, its an appreciative yet unobsessive pi reference. id begun to think that line was too fine to walk. *bows* at least im not the only one.

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