jpmom97 said:
JeanJoe said:
Oops, sorry! Reread my last post, and realized it was unclear that I was just joking.
Yes, like you, I also did a search of her past posts (and analyzed the spelling accuracy in them).
And, like Laurabearz, noticed that her sig announces a trip to SSR, but not until Dec 2005, so the theory that she is at SSR now doesn't seem right.
I propose that all of us here who have contributed to this most fascinating, glorious, amazing, bafflingly seductive thread, revel in our pride and/or shame by adding hanname to our sigs.
Yes, it is Saturday night, and I am contributing to the hanname thread.
If this is not cruel, I don't know what is. My past posts were analyzed for spelling? You are going to add hanname to your sigs? This is not making fun of someone? I was on my mom's computer and signed in and never signed out. My mom just came on to get a few questions answered and this is what happens. If she had signed in under her name you would see her family picture w/ her oxygen tank and wheelchair, maybe then this wouldn't be so funny. My mom has a great sense of humor and thinks this is all ok but the more I read into this thread the more it upsets me.
That was me, and I can not say how sorry I am that this has hurt you and your mother so much.
I know anything said now will be said "after the fact", and any excuses I post now are a poor defense, but I'd like to try to convince you that I'm not generally cruel. I am so ashamed that something I posted would be used as the most egregious example of cruelty and hurtfulness. Please remember that at the time I posted what you quoted above, "hanname" was not a name, with a person behind it, and certainly not a person who we knew had any medical issues. It was something I (we) was trying to figure out, and as a researcher, I tried everything I could to figure it out, including looking at past posts.
Immediately after I posted what you quoted above, someone rightfully posted that you or your mother might feel hurt, and I responded with:
JeanJoe said:
Apologies if any offense taken by OP or any others -- I think for the most part, it's pretty clear we are mostly laughing at ourselves, but to be safe, I retract the sig suggestio
In retrospect, it's clear that it was NOT clear that we were laughing at ourselves. In the end, it was also me who figured out the true story behind you, your mother, and her medical condition. I was frankly horrified when I found out the truth. I ended the post with:
JeanJoe said:
Oh, and we should all be sensitive to medical issues, and not grouse about mispellings. There were the "floaters" reference above, and also:
Quote:
Subject: Driving to WDW and needing to refill oxygen
Posted By HANNAMAE
Im on oxygen 24/7 and I have a machine I plug in and use all nite, but mine has a second part to it that fills my bottles. At first they gave me those large tanks on wheels and I told them no way was...
Who else is sad that the mystery has ended? But, it doesn't mean that we can't still use Hanname as a good-natured, DIS /
DVC family word, does it? We'll need to ask the OP and her mom whether she's OK with that.
Later, in response to other people who worried that our "jest" would be taken poorly, I posted:
JeanJoe said:
I sort of worried about this happening when we figured out why the original post was so garbled. But we didn't figure it out until more than a dozen pages in, and even then, we were making fun less of the garbled post than of our own idiocy at spending so much time trying to "figure it out."
The problem is that anyone coming into the thread late or who skips to the explanation already knows "the answer" and is not approaching the thread with the original perspective.
So, on one hand, many of us have adopted the word to mean "family" and all that is good about being here, so how could anyone else possibly read ill motives into our fun?
On the other hand, it was the garbled post that started it all, and the typos were due to someone's medical conditions -- not a funny topic at all.
After we did figure it out, I kind of hoped the OP or her mom would come by and "give their blessing" to our adopted word, but all attempts to contact her have been unsuccessful.
No answers about what to do now, but I wanted to post my thoughts.
And after that post, I stopped contributing to the thread.
Again, I am so, so sorry that we have hurt you this way. The last thing I wanted to remind you was that we had a word we didn't understand, but that in the end, the meaning we gave the word was
not hateful, hurtful, spiteful, or cruel. Before we learned the truth, we gave it our own meaning:
JeanJoe said:
I'll go with Diane's
definition:
OHANA means family in hawaiian, but HANNAME means DIS/DVC family on the boards!
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Again, I'm so sorry.
