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To: cripplecreek

Ishmael is also a character in Moby Dick
and if the guy was an English major,
that’s another possibility.

18 posted on 04/17/2007 9:02:23 AM PDT by najida (Just call me a chicken rancher :))

To: najida

"shmael is also a character in Moby Dick and if the guy was an English major, that’s another possibility."

TRue, but why use the Muslim version spelling of the Hebrew spelling?

60 posted on 04/17/2007 9:10:03 AM PDT by Texas_shutterbug

To: najida

That was the first thing that popped into my head...But Ishmael was the only one to survive in Moby Dick.

207 posted on 04/17/2007 9:51:38 AM PDT by Knitting A Conundrum (Act Justly, Love Mercy, and Walk Humbly With God Micah 6:8)

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