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- From: trumpins@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu (Barbara Trumpinski)
- Newsgroups: alt.callahans
- Subject: Re: Announcement!
- Message-ID: <C1D70r.5Fo@news.cso.uiuc.edu>
- Date: 24 Jan 93 15:29:15 GMT
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- alfvaen:
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- >"I know of Andy Offutt, and he >is< my favourite Thieves' World author, and I
- >even like some of his other books. So you've met him and he likes your legs,
- >eh? Hmmm. Homage is all well and fine, but why not name the boy Offutt? Now
- >>there< is an original name. Or, even better, Hanse?
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- >"Does Offutt live near Shampoo-Banana, or does he have some other reason to
- >come to Chambanacon? I just recall him talking about having a slow Texas
- >drawl..."
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- kitten:
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- andy is from kentucky....but he came to the first chambanacon 20+
- years ago and has come back every thanksgiving since. he and his wife
- treat it as sort of a vacation.
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- as far as the naming of young andrew otto...his mama is a mundane and
- proud of it...so offutt/hanse/frankenfurter/etc are not acceptable.
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- but he is a cutie and already watching star trek with his daddy.
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- conan the librarian a.k.a. kitten /\ /\ barbara ann
- "my life's a soap opera, isn't yours?" {=.=}
- ~ trumpins@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu
- "it's not easy being a cast iron bitch--it takes years of practice.
- most people don't appreciate that.
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