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- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 11:07:21 -0600
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- From: Susan Harwood Kaczmarczik <amadeus@CCWF.CC.UTEXAS.EDU>
- Subject: Re: What's in a name?
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- Honest-to-goodness real names and occupations:
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- Dr. Zoltan Ovary, gynecologist
- Mr. A. Moron, Commissioner of Education for the Virgin Islands
- The Reverends Christian Church and God
- Mr. Thomas Crapper of Crapper, Ltd. Toilets
- (although I think this is a retroactive thing, crap being called that
- *after* Mr. Crapper's invention rather than before)
- Cardinal Sin, Archbishop of Manila, the Philippines
- Mr. Groaner Digger, undertaker in Houston
- Ms. Justine Tune, chorister in Westminster Choir College, Princeton NJ
- Diana Nyad, champion long-distance swimmer
- (see, someone you've actually heard of!)
- John Hotvet, veterinarian, Minnetonka, Minnesota
- Mssrs. Plummer and Leek, plumbers in Sheringham, Norfolk, England
- Mssrs. Wyre and Tapping, detectives in NYC
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- And a freebie: My gynecologist, Dr. Roberto Casanova. :)
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- The others come from _The Best Baby Name Book in the Whole Wide World_,
- and I tried to include just the ones that could be verified.
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