[quote=katobe]True , and the real reason I don't trust Locke , is , ( like you ) I am a Charley fan .QUOTE]


Bzzzzztt! Hee Hee Hee! Wrong assumption! My name is really Charlie (or Charles, anyway).

And it's an amusing story. I am named after my father, whose name is Carl.
"Carl?" you say. Yep. My grandparents escaped from the USSR in 1920 or 1921. They became Canadian citizens and the immigrated to the US (they were denied admittance in New York, but were grant political asylum in Canada).

When my dad was born, my grandparents could only speak Russian and German. A German pastor was called in to translate and when asked what he wanted to name my dad, my grandfather (who had been trying to master English) announced, "Charles," the only problem being, with his accent, it sounded like "Carl."

All my dad's school records, in fact, everything official, has his name as Charles (nobody bothered to look at the birth certificate, I guess) until the government sent him a draft notice for WWII. That's when the name discrepancy surfaced, and in the ensuing bureaucratic chaos, my father enlisted in the Navy and became a cook stationed at a New Jersey base for the duration of the war.

So, when I was born (1st male child and all that), I had to be named, "Charles." So I was --and no nick name derivatives of Charles, either, because those were my dad's names! So the charlie98210 name is kind of an in-joke.

So, actually I'm a Terry O'Quinn fan and find his character protrayal of Locke both fascinating and spooky. I remember the look he gave Charley the third time he asked for the heroin back. Total disgust. Then, as Charley threw it into the fire, the expression morphed into a squinty kind of admiration.

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"Whoa!" she said. "Cry 'Havoc!' And let loose the dogs of war!"
And, like Banquo's ghost, they just won't go away.