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Re: OT: Welcome Konstantinos!
South Africa is famous for its time warps! Apartheid in the bad old days, our national team's preferred style of football at present (which is why they lose a lot. Whimper!) ... I could go on.By the way, South African Demetrioses tend to be known as Jimmy. Is that local or world-wide? I've got a cat named Jimmy, and I like to think about the friendly feral cats I met in Athens ... but perhaps it isn't a real link?
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Actually I have met Dimitrioses in the US who dub themselved Jimmy -- and, even more absurdly, Constantines who adopt the somewhat silly "Gus" ! Within Greece, a few Demitrioses with a stong sense of self-satire call themselves Jimmy, as in the case of "Jimakos Panoussis" a satyrical/surrealistic lyricist-cum-modern day Aristophanes.
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I knew a Constantine who went by Dean.Constantine Charles was his full name, but he only used Dean
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