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Tue, Feb 26th, 2008
Somehow, I ended up on some other Torres family mailing list. I now get emails addressed to “Santiago, Jorge, Ray, JESSE, Lillian, Eddy, Dora, Ben, MARY, Rachel, Ernesto, Aurora, Rafael, mera, Bobby, Eliseo, Joe, Rolando, Rolando, Leo/Liz, Raul, Nacho, Vince.” I got the schedule for the MR AMIGO association event (whatever that is) and some other thing about a Sombrero Festival. I’ve also received emails imploring me to vote for certain local candidates in elections in Texas, addressed to the same list. These people seem to be having a lot of fun somewhere in Texas, what, with the MR AMIGO association, the sombrero festival, and elections. On top of it all, they’re in warm Texas, not in the frozen Tundra of Northern New York.
So, while I have a bunch of relatives with what most people would think of as stereotypical Latin names (Pepe and Poncho and at least a few Marias, to name just a few), I suspect this is intended for a rather different Bob Torres (maybe it it is this Bob Torres, who probably feels annoyed that when people google him, they mostly find crap about some weirdo who writes about animal rights).
# Comment by Delany on Wed, Feb 27th, 2008 at 8:50 am:
There must be something in the air lately. For the last few months, I’ve been getting emails in Hebrew from a university in Israel - apparently I somehow ended up on an announcement list for the literature department lecture series. I’ve been forwarding them to a friend of mine who translates them for me, just because I’m nosy. Some of the events sound pretty cool!
# Comment by maria on Fri, Feb 29th, 2008 at 12:08 am:
oh man, i wish my name was Nacho
# Comment by Bob Torres on Fri, Feb 29th, 2008 at 6:17 pm:
@Delany: Well, I guess if you ever make it to Israel, you could have some good stuff to attend, if you could drag your friend along for translation
@Maria: Nacho could be a fun name, I guess, but I’d think the inevitably stupid jokes would get tiring after a while. Plus, with your being female, you’d be Nacha, which isn’t as much fun, I think.