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COLUMNISTS Mia Rabson A 9 James Wilson A 9 Allan Levine A 9 Martin Cash B 6 Jen Zoratti D 1 In the event of a discrepancy between this list and the official winning numbers, the latter shall prevail. PICK 3 Winning number Thursday was 411. EXTRA Winning number Thursday was 3585518. LOTTO 6/ 49 Winning numbers Wednesday were: 3, 15, 17, 35, 44, 46. Bonus number was 23. The jackpot of $ 5,000,000 was won by two tickets, each worth $ 2,500,000. Saturday's jackpot is an estimated $ 5 million. The Extra winning numbers were 1650666. LOTTERIES INSIDE N OT that I am sensitive about this, but people routinely mangle my last name. I often get letters and email wherein I am addressed as " Mr. Spiers," " Mr. Speers," " Mr. Speeres," " Mr. Spears," or even " Mr. Speirce." Even when I meet people in person, my name does not trip easily off their tongues. One Christmas, when I was volunteering with Operation Red Nose giving people safe rides home, I bravely knocked on a door, which was flung open by a man with a confused look on his face. " Hey!" he grunted. " Aren't you..." Feeling helpful, I chirped: " Hi, I'm Doug Speirs from the Winnipeg Free Press ." The man scowled and shook his head. " No," he sniffed, " that's not it." I was pretty sure I was right, but I gave him an option. " Ha ha ha," I chortled. " In fact, I'm famous bearded guitarist Randy Bachman, founding member of The Guess Who." The man stared with laser- like intensity for a moment, then shouted: " THAT'S IT!" But that is not today's insightful point. Today's point is that none of this bothers me because I have recently become aware that mangling someone else's name is the hot new pop- culture trend. For instance, earlier this month, I was watching a TV sports segment wherein John Fox, the brand- new coach of the Chicago Bears, was holding his first news conference and immediately fumbled the name of his team's quarterback, which happens to be Jay Cutler. " I feel good about whoever is at quarterback," Fox roared. " I'm looking forward to getting to know ( dramatic pause) Jake." Hopefully Jay is not in the market for full- time work because his new boss called him " Jake" a bunch more times. Speaking of NFL quarterbacks, the leader of the free world was apparently thinking about his fantasy football team recently when he tackled North Korea for threatening a terror attack over the satirical movie The Interview , which, for the record, stars James Franco and Seth Rogen. Declared U. S. President Barack Obama: " I think it says something interesting about North Korea that they decided to have the state mount an all- out assault on a movie studio because of a satirical movie starring Seth Rogen and James Flacco." Which prompted Baltimore Ravens star quarterback Joe Flacco to tweet a correction to the president, after which he formally welcomed actor James Franco into the Flacco family. Tragically, not everyone is as mellow about these mistakes as I am. For instance, our heart goes out to the news anchor on India's public TV channel who was fired recently for flubbing the name of visiting Chinese President Xi Jinping, mistaking his surname for the Roman numeral XI and calling him, quote, " Eleven Jinping" on air. If we have learned anything in researching this alarming global trend, we have learned this: You're nobody until John Travolta butchers your name at the Academy Awards. We believe Ground Zero for all- star namemangling came at last year's Oscars when Travolta attempted to introduce Frozen star Idina Menzel, who was poised to sing her megahit Let It Go , but he instead referred to her as ( wait for it) the " one and only Adele Dazeem!" If you are not aware of this now- legendary flub, we'll assume you have spent the past year hiding in a drain pipe. It immediately went viral and spawned an online widget to " Travoltify" the names of anyone who wanted to know what it would be like to be introduced by Travolta at the Oscars. ( For the record, my Travoltified name is: " Daud Speerce.") As far as we know, Travolta did not die from embarrassment, but his spirit is certainly haunting the Academy Awards based on our favourite name gaffe, which delighted the world earlier this month. What happened was, Cheryl Boone Isaacs, who is the president of the ( bad word) academy, was announcing the nominations for this year's Oscars and wanted to tell the world " Dick Pope" had been nominated in the best cinematography category. As most of you already know, the name that popped out of her mouth was this: " Dick Poop!" Naturally, Twitter went wild with potty humour, but we know the readers of this column are far too mature to be amused by this sort of mishap, unless they say the name three times real fast - " Dick Poop! Dick Poop! Dick Poop!" - in which case they will probably laugh until they wet themselves. For his part, Mr. Pope, like ourselves, took the higher ground. " I've been called a lot worse in my time," he said with dignity. We respect him for being such a class act, but hopefully this trend will be flushed sometime soon. doug. speirs@ freepress. mb. ca In the Doug House Doug Speirs What's in a name? Plenty of mistakes, says Speers, er, Speirs Seems no one is safe from misidentified monikers Getting that Raw feeling outdoors Patrons enjoy fine dining Thursday evening as Raw: almond opened its awning for the season at the junction of the Red and Assiniboine rivers. PHOTOS BY PHIL HOSSACK / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS A_ 04_ Jan- 23- 15_ FP_ 01. indd A2 1/ 22/ 15 10: 34: 02 PM ;