> -----Original Message-----
> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Howard Brazee
>
> On 12 Jan 2007 23:08:13 -0800, Robert A. Rosenberg wrote:
>
> >>Assuming that everyone on the planet has exactly one
> "middle initial".
> >
> >I remember a case where the program needed to accept NMI
> (for No Middle Initial).
Indeed, in completing an ATF Form 4473, one is *required* to furnish a
"middle name" even if one has none, or only an initial.
> Of course Harry S Truman's middle initial was his middle name. Same
> thing for the stage name of Michael J Fox (who thought the "J" in
> Michael J. Pollard sounded good). But software keeps putting
> periods after these initials even though they are not abbreviations.
I know a fellow from high school whose first name is the letter D.
There was also a story a few years ago about a man who had his entire
name legally changed to the single word "Bear".
And then there's the fictional "B J Honeycutt" from "M*A*S*H"....
-jc-
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