"Marry Me And I Will Take You All Over The World"

Quotes & Tidbits From a Life of Love

by Aniekan Willie Iyoho


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Book Details

Language : English
Publication Date : 9/19/2007

Format : Softcover
Dimensions : 6x9
Page Count : 76
ISBN : 9781434321664

About the Book

"Marry Me and I Will Take You All Over the World" is best summarized by its sub-title: Quotes and Tidbits from a Life of Love.  Many families will recognize their own shenanigans from this book.  Since it is written for anyone who can read, I have omitted lots of material that might be considered offensive.  Here’s one I probably should have retained: The year is 1984; an American colleague is visiting us in Paris to be honored for technical contributions to the Society of Petroleum Engineers.  He thanks everybody: “merci beaucoup” (and they say Americans do not speak foreign languages!).  He really should have stopped there, though.  Instead, he continues in his best French: “I would like to sleep with all of you,” (je voudrai .....), when he meant to say “I love you all,” (je vous aime.)  You'd think the French would be upset, but in fact they whooped and hollered … at least my buddy "attempted" their language, and did not just assume that they all speak English.  They get a bad rap, the French, for brusqueness ... and rightly so (just kidding, France.)  But actually they can be really nice; and Paris is a great cultural and architectural city (oh la la!).  So ... that’s one of the many I excluded; wait until you get to the ones that made the book.  As for the ones that I omitted, well they should fit nicely in my next book: "Wait, Wait, There's More ... The Movie Version."


About the Author

Aniekan Willie Iyoho enjoys soccer/football, traveling/photography, and playing the piano.  He joined Shell-Nigeria in 1973 following his summa-cum-laude mechanical engineering degree from Swansea University, UK.  Before that, he completed his high school at the prestigious Government Secondary School, Afikpo, where he was the Captain of School in 1966. He left for graduate studies in USA and obtained MS (1977) and PhD (1980) degrees in petroleum engineering from Tulsa University in Oklahoma.  He then worked for a number of energy companies in well drilling and production, in various parts of the world, until 1991 when he became a professor at the University of Missouri-Rolla.  He left for Oman in 1996 to work for PDO, a Shell affiliate, and Oman's Ministry of Oil and Gas until 2002, when he returned to USA as a technical adviser for Anadarko Petroleum.  He retired in January 2012 as Sr. Well Engineer Shell Global Technology Deployment in Houston.  He and Grace have been married since 1974 and they have 4 children and 2 grandchildren.