This week's Club Pogo challenges!
Solitaire Home Story : Clear 200 diamond cards this week!
Garden Blast : Use 170 bombs or bomb power-up combos this week!
World Class Solitaire HD : Place 200 cards into the foundation stacks this week!
Quote from: crazy_ on October 15, 2006, 06:44:36 AMuh...dont sale yaself short, Crazy.... u may need to write a book explainin why u so crazy.......lmao
lol mine is self explanitory :))
Quote from: tponka on October 16, 2006, 11:28:19 PMThat is a very sweet story! Thanks for sharing it with us
My nickname (Tponka) was what Michael (my ex, and the only man I've ever loved) called me. My real name is Tonya, and I am Russian. (Well, my family came from Russia around the time of the Revolution..) I never learned the language well, just enough conversational and phrases to get by when the "elders" came around during holidays. I'm working on my PhD in mathematics, and one of the requirements is to pass a basic literacy test in Russian, German, or Italian, the three languages (besides English) in which the majority of math journals are originally published. Obviously, I chose to learn Russian, so my mom got me a set of textbooks to learn the language on my own and gave them to me for Christmas. When I opened the box, with Michael next to me, he looked at the title and asked what they were. I said that they were Russian language books. He read the title out loud, using English pronunciation of the Cyrillic letters as "ta-PONK-uh." He then asked if that was my name written in Russian. I explained to him that it was actually the word "troika," which is a common Russian cart pulled by horses.
The word "troika," written in Cyrillic is spelled T P O backwards N K A. So from then on, he called me Tponka, as my pet name. And being a singer/songwriter/performer by hobby, he recorded a version of John Lennon's "Yoko Song," replacing the name Yoko with Tponka.