Ramblings 20 Mar 2008 07:27 am
Consider this…
I am sure that you all know who Franz Ferdinand is. No, I don’t mean the Austrian indie-ish rock band of the early 2000’s, but rather the man the band was named after. Franz Ferdinand was the Austrian royalty until he was murdered, which coincidentally is what triggered world war one. Why am I telling you this? Well I wanted to share just how wikipedia works for me. I am listening to Franz Ferdinand (the band, not the man) and I got to thinking that they got their name from the man whose assasination started the First World War. So I look it up to glean more knowledge about Franz Ferdinand (the man, not the band) only to find an even more intriguing bit of information, his full name:
Franz Ferdinand Karl Giuermo Anikò Strezpek Belschwitz Mòric Pinche Bálint Szilveszter Gömpi Maurice Bzoch János Frajkor Ludwig van Haverbeke Josef von Habsburg-Lothringen.
So the next time you want to complain to your parents about the name they chose for you (unless you are ok with the name and really have a problem with how it is ordered) I suggest you think of Mr. Franz Ferdinand Karl Giuermo Anikò Strezpek Belschwitz Mòric Pinche Bálint Szilveszter Gömpi Maurice Bzoch János Frajkor Ludwig van Haverbeke Josef von Habsburg-Lothringen and be thankful that your name doesn’t have accent agout’s, accent grav’s, hypens and even the penultimat umlaut.