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To: rhema
My mother is a genealogy nut. She has a collection of strange names from the last 300 years. Recently she found one Dixie Cupp. Predates the actual product. I seem to recall an article a few years back about the search for an actual person named Dot Com. One was eventually found, a crusty old lady who thought the guys sponsoring the contest were a bunch of nerds, although she accepted the free prizes eagerly enough.
95 posted on 11/08/2003 6:46:31 AM PST by meowmeow
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To: meowmeow
"I seem to recall an article a few years back about the search for an actual person named Dot Com."

Well, there was a guy named Al Niño, who kept getting hate phone-calls for all the bad weather he was causing...

And the Smothers Brothers scoured the nation and collected people with names like "Old", "Sommer", "Good"...sufficiently so that they--en masse--could sing the complete song, "In the Good Old Summer Time", one name at a time, each person singing his or her name with the correct note.

--Boris

109 posted on 11/08/2003 7:02:24 AM PST by boris (The deadliest Weapon of Mass Destruction in History is a Leftist With a Word Processor)
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