Conference back40::soapbox

    Mr. Topaz, was not.
    
    Knew a family in school with the last name of Bruce.  Kids were Rocky,
    Stony and Pebbles. 
    
    The heiress to the Lear fortune is/was Crystal Shanda. 
    
    

I think there's a topic in JOYOFLEX on this.

 .4 hey.  that's what i was jes gonna say.

    NASCAR driver Dick Trickle
    BMWCCA V.P. Dick Holden

    NH Rep. Dick Swett

    
    
    went to junior high with windy fairweather.  her brother lucked out
    with bill...
    
    

    A woman named Reginna Dripps. Question of the day does she have a
    relative named Dick?:) 

    Actually knew another guy named, John Whore.... 

    
    There's a DEC employee with a name I find rather humourous, but
    she's still in ELF, so I better not...
    

 There used to be a guy here at DEC named Dick Aiken (from Holden, btw).

I suppose that Jack Lemon brings some painful images to mind... (or
jacknife, that's even worse!)

Chris.

    
    
    There used to be a Mary Christmas at TWO.
    
    Cruel parents, methinks.
    
    W.
    

    Justin Case, a schoolchum of Walters minor.

    Walters minor, as in you're Walters pater?

    
    My father always said he wanted to nickname me Christmas.
    
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    For those who don't get it - Reith sounds like Wreath
    

    
    No, Walters minor as in my 6.2" tall, built like a brick shithouse,
    mountain rescue team leader, little brother.
    
    I got the short, fat, hairy genes.

    
    Hey, when have you seen me.

6.2" tall?  That's even shorter than the fabled piano player.

    
    
    RE: .19 I hate it when that happens......

    six Feet,  Feet.

    
    knew a guy named Jack Mehoff, once

    
    
    	Hey Colin, is he single?  ;)
    

    
    Judy, whatever happened to your Diet Coke man?

    No, He's wed, two kids, and is 3600 miles from here.

    I went to school with a Candy Kane (GAK OUT!)

Knew a girl named Helen Bak.

    
    	Re: Colin
    
    	Harumph.
    
    	re: Mark
    
    	Class A jerk.  Stood me up and then I found out he had
    	a girlfriend to boot.
    

If he had a girlfriend to boot, you're better off without him.  Especially
if they were steel-toed boots.

    Fanny Farmer.  
    
    I have a vision of fields of buttocks stretching as far as the eye can
    see.  Bizarre, but on the other hand, there would be plenty of places
    to park a bicycle.
    

    My next door neighbors in Tennessee drove around in a van with Bible
    verses painted on it, and their kid's names were:
    
    Praise the Lord Wortham (the son)
    and
    Wonderful Wortham (the daughter)
    
    I swear.
    

    I have a good friend named Richard Head. For reasons that should
    be painfully obvious, he prefers to be called Richard or Rich;
    other common nicknames associated with "Richard" are deprecated.

    I also worked with a fellow named Richard Long; he also preferred
    to be called "Rich", although there are few men who would mind
    the reputation associated with other possibilities.

    -b

    Wasn`t there a baseball player with the last name of LeCock?

    I know a Holly Wood, Scott Free, Jay Walker, and Robin Banks.
    
    Robin's name is not her maiden name.

      I knew a guy in my school whose name was Harry Dick.
    
      Unbelievable.  How does someone name a guy that???
    
    						Tony

>    Praise the Lord Wortham (the son)

Look up Barebones in Merriam-Webster's Biographical Dictionary.

      I know a woman who used to go the my church named
      Candy Sweet (last name not her maiden name).
    
      						Tony

    
    
    oh  yeah...i worked a home show once with a very nice lady from the
    phone company.  her name was carol and she married a guy with the last
    name carroll.  she opted to take his name...why i don't know...
    
    then there was this other women i met at the phone company.  her name
    was catherine (or katherine).  she married mr. mccatherine.  she, too,
    decided to take her hubby's name.  
    
    they could have at least hyphenated or something...
    
    

    I beleive that Gen. Douglas MacArthur`s fathers name was Arthur
    MacArthur.

    
    I had a cousin born on Chrismas Eve: Carol Bell.

    re: .40
    
    How odd, I worked with a Karol Carroll (married name) too!
    She used to be with Digital in Merrimack.
    
    Mary-Michael

re .37:

Had a high school teacher named Harry Wiener.  Bad enough that his parents
named him that, but why would he want to be a school teacher with a name
like that to draw fire...

Canada had a prime minister or some other high level official named
Donald McDonald.  (not to be confused with his brother, Ronald?)

    My friends wife............Karen Caron
    Kid I went to grammer school with......Charlie Farley
    

>    Kid I went to grammer school with......Charlie Farley
 

   Wasn't Charles U. Farley, was it?   

re: Richard Head

I worked with a guy in CA named Tommy Head. His actual name was Michael Thomas.
Not as good as Richard, but he did hate his initials.

Also worked with someone from Quebec, whose last name was De' Ath. We all called
him Mr. Death.

    
    It was...THE SALMON MOUSSE.
    
    

I shared a desk in grade school with a guy named Harry Pitts

	I could mention Russell Russell Russell again,
	but I won't.

    A friend of mine from my youth had the given name Ray Sharp.  Any
    guesses as to what his middle name was?
    
    
    
    Zor

    
    
    In my high school days, I used to work with a woman named Kris Kross...
    
    
    Bob
    

 I went to grammar school with a guy who's last name was "Fillerup".




 Jim

    local member for charlestown in newcastle is Richard Face.
    
    racehorse by the name of Waikikamukau 
    
    a few years back in the newcastle yellow pages:
    
    
    Johns Dick Cleaning Service ph .........
    
    unfortunately Dick Johns no longer is in the cleaning business

    Colin,
    
    I thought it was genetially impossible for a Welshman to be taller
    than 5'10" :-)
    
    

    'Tis true.  We rank dead last in the International Small Nations
    basketball tournament.  

    We have a radio talk show host here in Dallas named Benjamin Dover.
    I kid you not.

    	I've got a friend, name's Eileen Loney.  ( She has 3 sisters who
    are grateful that they didn't get the name.)
    
    						- Rich

    Seen last night on David Letterman:
    (I can't remember if the first name is right or not, but I'm QUITE sure
    I have the second name right. Impossible to forget.)
    
    Dick Assman. An employee of Petro Canada.
    
    Letterman, of course, wouldn't let it go.

    
    .59
    
    Does Ben Dover have a brother Dick?
    
    

>    Does Ben Dover have a brother Dick?
    
nah, but his mate is called Phil McCavity.

Chris.

    
    Maybe Dick Assman was funny Monday night.
    But the problem with Letterman....
    
    								-mr. bill

    <---- That's why he makes 14 million a year.

    
    To bad billy hasn't been able to make the same trait a money maker for
    him.
    
    :-)
    Dan

    
    <--- speaking of "not letting go"...
    

Ohio State fan named his daughter Scarlet Ann Grey.  She changed her name
when she was of legal age.

    
    why would she want to change her name???
    
    

She thought the Scarlet and Grey clashed?

    My Sister-in-law dated a Harry Boner once. She still hears about it to
    this day.  :)
    
    ...Tom

    Good thing his first name wasn't Rodney.

    
    or Iva

    
    Don Ho, the "Hawaiian Elvis", allegedly has a sister named Naz T.

    
    
    
    Patrick Fitzgerald and Gerald Fitzpatrick
    
    
    
    ;-)
    
    
    Les

re: .69

Raq, because she was tired of people making jokes about her name.  The family
lived in Columbus, Ohio where OSU (Ohio State University) is located.  I'm
sorry if I was unclear about that.

Bob

    
    bob, i *still* don't see where the joke is...maybe because i am
    unfamiliar with osu...or maybe because i am feeling very blonde
    today... :>
    
    
    there is a guy in my "speech" class...richard nutt...he prefers rich
    but the teacher, for whatever reason, insists on calling him dick...
    
    i laugh whenever i think about it... :> 
    

    
    Raq,
    
    I'm guessing that the school colours of OSU are scarlet and grey;
    thus, Scarlet Ann Grey.
    

    Thanks John!
    
    Now I can get some sleep tonight!!
    
    YAY!
    
    YIPEEEE!!!!
    
    {HOP} {HOP} {WHIRLY TWIRLY}

    
    well, i had thought of that, but didn't really think of it as something
    that would warrant one to want to change her name...
    
    
    then again, i have pretty much always wanted to change mine, so who am
    i to complain...
    

re: .77

Oh my.  I just went back and re-read my note.  I left out one minor detail...
OSU's colors are scarlet and grey.

Can I go home now, I obviously need the break:-(

Bob

    
    <---------
    
    -< I'm the one being blonde... >-

    
    
    bob, in your case, that would be blond... :> ;>
    
    unless of course there is something that we (and marina {sp}) don't
    know...
    
    :> :>
    
    

>    unless of course there is something that we (and marina {sp}) don't
>    know...


Of course there is something you don't know...and there are lots of things I
don't know, but I doubt any of those things are related to the discussion:-)

Bob

    	In Monmouth County, NJ phone book, there was an Iva Pecker.

    A friend of mine works in the local county health department.  They
    deal primarily with the underprivileged, single parent, teen parent,
    etc.  Some of the names they come up with are purely amazing.
    
    One young teen mom was illiterate.  When asked about the name for he
    rbaby girl, she remembered seeing answered "Fee-MOW-LEE".  When asked
    to spell it, she said "F E M A L E."  
    
    One couple last week had a baby during the height of the blizzard while
    waiting for the ambulance crews to arrive.   When asked for a name,
    they came up with "Snow Storm".
    
    

    
    my old girlfriend's sisters name was Stormy. odd name, matched her
    personality, however.