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[Dave Dermont]

I recently attended an award ceremony at my daughter's middle school. She is a member of their championship 8th grade girls basketball team, ending the season with a 15-1 record.

Her name will now hang on a banner in the school gym for posterity.

During the ceremony, the vice-principal mentioned all the girls on the team are also on the honor roll, with an average of 89.5 or higher. I think that's pretty cool.

Now, on to the "What's Wrong?" part.

When the school principal spoke at the ceremony, she told a story about how the the local company they got their other banners from were not in business anymore, and they had to go out of state to have the banner made. She also went on about the design/proof/approval process.

Mind you, this lady is one of those people who gets all bent out of shape if you inadvertently call her "Mrs." instead of "Dr.". OK, she did the work, she got the degree, she deserves the respect. I am cool with that.

Now look at the banner. You'd think that with all these advanced degrees flyin' around, someone might have caught that, alphabetically, Dermont comes before Dumback.

Well, at least they spelled all the names right.

I find this amusing. Maybe I need to get out more.

DD

[Travis Watson]

No fair tellin the answers before anyone post.

[Patrick Tracy]

Fourteen names and nineteen girls?

[Stavross (Sam Buck)]

I don't care if someone has a degree, if they aren't a medical doctor (or at least a dentist) I don't call anyone Dr.

[Tom Reid]

Being a proud daddy is cool Dave.
Take care,

[Charlie Zureki]

   Hello,

  I'm guessing they initially spelled Dermont..."Durmont" ... which would have put it in the correct alphabetical order... then got lazy after they changed the "u" to an "e", and didn't change the last names to the correct order.  

Hammer

ps. Dermont always comes before Dumback  in my book..

[Randy Pence]

The formatting of the names also looks weird for those that read from left to right and then scroll down.

[Dave Dermont]

Charlie Zureki wrote on Wed, 22 April 2009 15:06

Hello,   I'm guessing they initially spelled Dermont..."Durmont" ... which would have put it in the correct alphabetical order... then got lazy after they changed the "u" to an "e", and didn't change the last names to the correct order.   Hammer ps. Dermont always comes before Dumback  in my book..

Actually, this is most likely the correct explanation.

You'd really be surprised at how many "creative" ways people have found spell my last name. I mean, it's seven freakin' letters!

The one that always gets me it how many people spontaneously stick a "Mc" in front of it.

Really, it happens all the time.

DD

[Ned Ward]

We played a show a year ago where our band, The Petty Gripes, was billed on the marquee as the Pretty Grips. When asked why the mispelling, the bartender said they ran out of "R"s...

[John Roberts {JR}]

Congrats, on the ball...  and the sign will be hanging around for a while to remind everybody of the alphabetization skills of the administration, unless some parent makes a stink about it and they decide to  lose the sign to avoid embarrassment..

JR