<table class="bbc_table"><tbody><tr><td>(http://www.exposay.com/celebrity-photos/cristiano-ronaldo-fatima-lopes-unveils-formal-wear-for-the-portuguese-national-soccer-team-may-17-2006-BVoj8V.jpg)</td><td><div style="text-align: right;"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 18pt;"><strong>Theofilus Heiko Gerben</strong></span><br/><em>Really, really embarrassed</em></div><hr/>Te... tu... shara... Minoru.  Theo's eyes narrowed slightly as his mind attempted to handle the Japaneseness of his name.  No, don't think that Theo didn't like the Japanese!  For the most part, he got along well with them.  He didn't really get names, though.  So, with a curious expression (and utterly destroying Tetushara's name), Theo said:   "... So, do people always call you Tetushara Minoru?  Or do you have a nickname?"<br/><br/>This was somewhat important to Theo.  After all, he had a name that made people garble on marbles when they said it.  Swiss people liked complex names, he'd always explain after he uttered his complete identity.<br/><br/> "Red squadron, all right;  Star Wars is okay, I guess."  He didn't want to sink his first acquaintance.  Theo didn't really care about Star Wars or science fiction (with the exception of Harry Harrison, but only because he thought Harrison was a card).  His mother was a big fan of P.D. James, but he thought that she was too pedantic and wordy.  Every single time he read one of her novels he'd yell at the page saying, 'I get it, P.D. James!  You have a large vocabulary!'  ... That was a strange thought process, so let us return Theo to the present, standing in front of ... Tetuhara was it?  Oh man, he had already forgotten his name and the man just told it to him!<br/><br/>"Food?  Oh yeah!  I'm a 'starving Marvin.'"    Theo winced when he used an American colloquialism.  "I mean, I'm really hungry."<br/></td></tr></tbody></table>