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- From: nadel@attatash.aero.org (Miriam Nadel)
- Subject: Re: Stark Naked
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- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 15:59:42 GMT
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- In article <1hahimINNlre@morrow.stanford.edu> francis@oas.stanford.edu (Francis Muir) writes:
- >Click & Clack, the Tappet Bros., of Car Talk have a list of these names
- >which grows increasingly excruciating as the weeks go by. Their book,
- >*CAR TALK*, may include a list.
-
- It doesn't - the book is much more to the point than the show.
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- But Herb Caen's column in the San Francisco Chronicle used to be full of
- real-life examples and may well still be. I believe he referred to them
- as "namephreaks."
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- If the book in question is by Norton Juster, that gives me more incentive
- to go out and get it. I wasn't aware that he had written anything but
- _The Phantom Tollbooth_ which should not be given to children too young
- to understand the humor.
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- Miriam Nadel
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