meme: getting to know you

[cellio]

I've seen this a bunch of times in the last few days:

The problem with LJ: We all think we are so close, but really we know nothing about each other. So if you like, ask me something you think you should know about me. Something that should be obvious, but you have no idea about. Ask away.

Then, if you like, post this in your LJ and find out what people don't know about you.

Comments

[cellio]

CHEL-lee-oh. Like the musical instrument plus a syllable.

I don't actually know the background (or meaning) of the name. My parents pronounce it "SEE-lee-oh", which isn't even close to the spelling. I made a conscious decision to change it because if I was going to have to correct people anyway, I was going to correct them to a plausible pronunciation. But I have to wonder whether Ellis Island changed the spelling from something that would be pronounced that way. I never knew my great-grandfather, who's the one who would have known. (My grandfather died when I was a child, and my father didn't ask. So the knowledge is gone now -- well, unless I care enough to go spelunking through immigration records, which I don't. I'm curious, not dedicated. :-) )

[dagonell.livejournal.com]

It's the Italian C, like Annette Funicello. :D It doesn't help that the law firm of Cellino and Barnes spent tens of thousands on advertising telling people it's "Sell-lee-no"

[cellio]

Oh, it's their fault? I see their billboards any time we're near Buffalo (how could we not?), but I've never seen their TV/radio ads.

[dagonell.livejournal.com]

(how could we not?)

Rather easily, now. :D Cellino got his license to practice law suspended, so now it's "The Barnes Firm". However, he's still saturation bombing the area with billboards, TV/radio, phonebook ads, etc. I want to see what happens when the suspension is lifted. Is Barnes going to 'take back' a criminal, even if he is a founding member?

[cellio]

Oh, I hadn't heard that. I think we saw Cellino on a billboard in April (last time we went to Toronto); did this happen since then? Or were they just slow to change the billboards?

What did Cellino do?

[dagonell.livejournal.com]

What did Cellino do?

Lend money to clients
Bad lawyer, no billboard

The six month suspension started in June 05, which actually means it's running out about now. I suspect the biggest cost to them was changing all the billboards. :D
-- Dagonell

[jeannegrrl.livejournal.com]

Now that's something I shouldn't forget - considering I play the cello (or I did once upon a pre-kid life) :-)