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- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 01:18:54 EST
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- From: Tony Harminc <EL406045@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU>
- Subject: Re: What's in a name?
- Comments: To: English Language Discussion List <words-l@uga.cc.uga.edu>
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- Posted on 22 Dec 1992 at 12:07:58 by Susan Harwood Kaczmarczik
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- >Honest-to-goodness real names and occupations:
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- >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)
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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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- And if you believe that Thomas Crapper really invented the flush toilet
- you'll also believe the other 'biography' by the same author of Otto Titzling,
- the inventor of the brassiere.
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- Tony H.
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