Re: Surnames [was: U.S. drops leaflets warning Iraq of counterattack]

2002-10-08 Thread J. van Baardwijk
At 12:07 08-10-2002 -0500, Reggie Bautista wrote: >>Jeroen 19670323023006 > >Is this conjecture, or did you find some way of determining that you were >to 23,006th person born that day? :-) Neither. It is my Military Registration Number. It just happened to have the same format as the surname

Re: Surnames [was: U.S. drops leaflets warning Iraq of counterattack]

2002-10-08 Thread Reggie Bautista
Jeroen wrote: >For example, if you were the 137th person who was born on December 7, 1988, >your full name would be 19881207000137. > > >Jeroen 19670323023006 Is this conjecture, or did you find some way of determining that you were to 23,006th person born that day? :-) Reggie Bautista Just

Re: Surnames [was: U.S. drops leaflets warning Iraq of counterattack]

2002-10-07 Thread J. van Baardwijk
At 12:09 07-10-2002 -0300, Alberto Monteiro wrote: >If I were the Evil Overlord of the world, I would >force everybody to change the surnames to a logical >system: ... > >[] Nah. When I become Overlord of the world, I will introduce a much more efficient system. Since we are all registered as

RE: Surnames [was: U.S. drops leaflets warning Iraq of counterattack]

2002-10-07 Thread Ritu Ko
Alberto Monteiro wrote: > > Nope. But I am not really that astute. Most Indians can > > take a look at that name and tell you about the caste > > of Gautam's father [and hence, Gautam's]. > > > There are studies here in Brazil showing some correlation > between surnames and skin colour. F