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- From: rivk@quads.uchicago.edu (nora gayle rivkis)
- Subject: Re: Character Names
- Message-ID: <1992Jul30.210626.18821@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations
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- Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 21:06:26 GMT
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- In article <Bs7x3q.KL5@unx.sas.com> sasafw@dobo.unx.sas.com (Fred Welden) writes:
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- >Like naming the Spanish governor of the colony of Louisiana
- >Alejandro "Bloody" O'Reilly, for example? Face it, as far as
- >countries west of somewhere around Beirut and east of Hawaii go,
- >practically anybody can have practically any surname, and could have
- >for a couple of centuries now. I think a Chinese or Lebanese named
- >O'Reilly might be a little farfetched, but I am willing to stand
- >corrected.
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- Well, I know an Israeli named Mike O'Leary, so... :-)
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- >--Fred, or another blind 8th-century BC | sasafw@dobo.unx.sas.com
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- -Nora
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