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- From: fehr@ms.uky.edu (Jeff Davis)
- Subject: Re: Stark Naked
- Keywords: I've got Bright's Disease and he's got mine!
- Message-ID: <1992Dec24.112458.22930@ms.uky.edu>
- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 16:24:58 GMT
- Organization: Austerlitz, Gershovitz, and Carmichael
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- Miriam Nadel writes:
- >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.
- >
- >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."
- >
-
- I love both Car Talk and the list of names. I read _The Vale of Laughter_
- (Peter DeVries) at a too impressionable age. Finding a real life
- R.U. Upjohn has been a quest for me like finding the last surviving
- ivorybill woodpecker.
- --
- Jeff Davis <davis@keats.ca.uky.edu> One never knows, do one?
-