My good friend and colleague Richard Hair will be pleased to find that others 
suffer from malnamia.

W. Andrew Geoghegan
Psychology Instructor (Ret.)
Social Sciences Adjunct Faculty

>>> "Marc Carter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 4/9/2008 2:55 PM >>>

Heh.  You think that's bad?  Here are the names of two real people I've
known:

Harold Johnson.
Richard Head. 

And yes, they both went by the usual shorter first names.

Parents don't often think things through, it seems to me.

m


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New evidence on the Boy Named Sue theory:

http://tinyurl.com/6kmejf 

And my wife swears she knew someone from her high school named Adam
Baum.

Stephen
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