On Thu, Jun 15, 2006 at 02:46:26PM -0400, Christopher Smith wrote: > > On Jun 15, 2006, at 2:20 PM, David W. Fenton wrote: > > > On 15 Jun 2006 at 13:14, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > >> But the worst were the insensitive *********s called Mr and Mrs Royds > >> who named their daughter Emma. > > > > I know for a fact that there was a real person named Marvin C. Atnip. > > In town here we have some musicians with fanciful names. Ivanhoe > Jolicoeur is a trumpet player (Ivanhoe Goodheart, loosely translated), > as was Lafleche Doré (the golden arrow) now deceased. Eric Rock and Jim > Head are guitarists, and Alec Walkington is a jazz bassist. These are > all the names they were born with, as citing stage names would be > cheating. I saw credited on a program once "Réal Lebasseur - bass" > which is close to meaning "really the bassist" but I suspect it was a > fake name to fool the musicians' union. > > When I was a teenager we lived next door to a podiatrist named Dr. > Foote. His building exploded the year after we moved away. It almost > (but not quite) made up for the years I had to hear "We wish you a > merry Chris Smith", "It's starting to look a lot like Chris Smith" and > "Hey, Chris Smith! When'th Eathter?"
My father had a patient named Bunny Briar. In her case, though, it was a name created by marriage. The most egregious naming I'd heard of was the daughter of the inventor of the Lear Jet, Crystal Chanda. --Lynn _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
