I am afraid that I am going to have to agree with Karen on this one, although not totally. I remember it as ‘S-Alan! And I do not believe that Karen and I were children who were prone to glomming(?) onto anything. We, if you will but recall, were perfect little angels!

I’d expect you to agree with her, of course. It just means you’re both wrong.

Yes, always enjoyed hearing “Matt Thurston Wiitala!” - now I get to be reminded of it every time my wife says, “Drew Thurston Wiitala!” to our son!

Hoist with your own petard (in a manner of speaking)!

Hmm, your sisters used to call you Ks’Alan…perhaps your middle name was invoked more often than you recall?

I can say from experience that repetition is not always necessary for a young child to pick up a phrase. Must have been just one of those things they glommed onto, despite the fact that it was so infrequently uttered by an adult.

Yeah.

My initials spell “geek”; I was doomed from the onset…

I seemed to learn much quicker how to keep this terrible combination of names from being used. My brother (for whatever reason) didn’t quite fair as well.