Or Dutch speaking puritan: geil means horny in Dutch.
2016-08-08 20:23 GMT+02:00 Nathan Wajsman <photo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> I suspect that some German speaking puritan indeed took offense to the
> “geil” part. I also really like the suggestion of fake last name. I do it
> all the time, for example when you have to register to take advantage of
> free wifi in an airport or some such. So, for example, I recently
> registered as “Nathan Smith” at some airport (do not remember which one).
> Now, when I receive spam addressed to Nathan Smith, I know which crooks
> sell their data to the spammers.
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> Cheers,
> Nathan
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> > On 08 Aug 2016, at 17:02, Charles Geilfuss <charles.geilfuss@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
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> > Thanks for looking, Jim. I came across a blog where someone claimed to
> have
> > the same problem. MS would not accept his surname of "Chicken". No one
> > could come up with a satisfactory explanation but suggested the same work
> > around.
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> > Charlie
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> > On Mon, Aug 8, 2016 at 10:34 AM, Jim Nichols <jhnichols@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> Charlie,
> >>
> >> A web search didn't help much. Another Microsoft Account user had the
> >> same response to a surname entry in 2013, and Microsoft's response
> seemed
> >> to be a "run-around", with suggestions that never worked.
> >>
> >> Your solution of "choose another surname" seemed to be the best answer.
> >>
> >> Jim Nichols
> >> Tullahoma, TN USA
> >>
> >>
> >> On 8/8/2016 9:16 AM, Charles Geilfuss wrote:
> >>
> >>> Greetings All,
> >>> Had an odd experience this weekend and I hope someone here may be
> able
> >>> to
> >>> shed some light. On Saturday I purchased a new laptop PC for my
> daughter.
> >>> It is a Dell Insperion with Windows 10. We set it up on Sunday. One of
> the
> >>> first steps is it asks you to set up a Microsoft Account. I typed in my
> >>> daughter's name, e-mail address and a password she selected. I clicked
> on
> >>> the "Next" button only to get an error message, with her last name
> >>> highlighted, stating the name cannot be accepted. I deleted and
> re-typed
> >>> the name thinking I had accidentally inserted a space after the name.
> No
> >>> luck, same error message. I checked to make sure the e-mail account has
> >>> the
> >>> same user name. Tried re-typing everything, same error message. In
> >>> frustration I called Geek Squad at the store where purchased and
> explained
> >>> the problem. They had never heard of such a thing.Then my wife
> remembered
> >>> the same thing happened to her at work when they started using MS
> Office
> >>> 365. She tried to register and it would not take her last name. The IT
> >>> person where she works told her to just make up a last name and that
> did
> >>> the trick. Finally I replaced my daughter's last name with her initial
> "G"
> >>> and that was accepted. Set up went fine from that point.
> >>> Has anyone else had this experience or have any clue what is so
> >>> confounding to MS about my last name? My only thought is that my German
> >>> last name contains the word "geil" which in German means sexy or
> mystical.
> >>> Perhaps some AI at MS thought I was typing a bad word.
> >>>
> >>> Clueless Charlie
> >>>
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