On Thu, 26 Jul 2018 16:14:14 -0400, wrote:

>On Thu, 26 Jul 2018 11:50:16 -0700 (PDT), "
> wrote:
>
>>On Thursday, July 26, 2018 at 1:33:32 PM UTC-5, Sheldon wrote:
>>>
>>> On Thu, 26 Jul 2018 11:17:09 -0700 (PDT), "
>>> > wrote:
>>>
>>> >On Thursday, July 26, 2018 at 12:30:35 PM UTC-5, Sheldon wrote:
>>> >>
>>> >> You're not the first redneck here who refers to their wife as THE
>>> >> wife... maybe you're THE wife... Terry is a female name, a nick for
>>> >> Teresa.
>>> >>
>>> >It's also a nickname for Terence/Terrence; hence Terry.
>>>
>>> I never met anyone named Terence/Terrence. Terry is a towel.
>>>
>>All that world traveling you must have done in the navy and never once
>>met a man named Terence/Terrence??
>
>Nope, I really haven't... sounds like a made up stage name, perhaps
>nowadays a Eubonics Hollywood handle. Each year substitute teaching
>in school my wife hears some weird names, weird spellings, and weirder
>pronunciations.

Terence Hill's real name was Mario Girotti
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terence_Hill).

Terence Trent D'Arby is a real Terence, from Manhattan, no less.
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terence_Trent_D%27Arby)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dluHzQhLcME