Well - I had a brutal wake up call on Sunday night…

Somebody in Hollywood decided to steal my name and use it for a movie! Apparently the main character from the movie coming out this weekend - The Forgotten - is named Telly…which happens to be my name (BTW, that’s how it was spelled for about 15 years of my early life). I figure it happened something like this:
Someone from my childhood - possibly classmate or teacher - decided to go write for some Hollywood movie production company or something and said to him/herself “hey, I once knew a girl named Telly…that’s a unique and unusual name…especially for a girl - let’s use it” and so, the character Telly was born…

This is blasphemy I tell you! Sheer blasphemy!

Granted, if they had used Telian - or Telly-Ann - somebody in Hollywood would be goin’ down…

Someone raised a good point - why am I upset by this - I should be flattered…

My answer to that is…BS!

It took me some 20 something years to finally get used to and appreciate the uniqueness of my name.

I’ve had to sit through people mispronouncing it - coming up with new enunciations for letters I didn’t even know existed in it

I even had to listen to people call me telephone, telegraph, teleconference, telescope, telethon, and a whole bunch of other words that started with tele which they though were ‘funny’…

I’ve even had people call me Talani - can someone please tell me how you get Talani and Telly (or even Telian) mixed up?

I earned the right to this name…some character on a show who gets the name for all of…what? 3 months while they’re filming? That is certainly not earning the rights to your unique name…sheer blasphemy…the only people allowed to be called Teli (or Telly) for any duration of time are those people who have had to deal with it all their lives…unless of course the character is based on a real-life Telly…and last time I checked - the main character in The Forgotten was not a black computer geek or a giant bald dude who got to play Kojak

Maybe I should start a Teli (or Telly) coalition - network all the Teli’s of the world :)