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- From: bigdog!jon (Jon Wright)
- Subject: Re: Goofy nicknames
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- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 03:57:35 GMT
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- Ed Green - Pixel Cruncher writes
- > In article 1j75teINNjah@cronkite.cisco.com, kmac@cisco.com (Karl MacRae)
- writes:
- >
- > > My father in law (He's a tax lawyer) has a client named
- > > Harry Muff.
- > >
- > > It's most amusing to hear my mother-in-law take the call and
- > > then yell to him "Holmes! Harry Muff For You!".
- >
- > Recommended reading:
- >
- > _Help, I am Being Held Prisoner!_, by Donald Westlake (?).
- >
- > Plot: Harry K nt (I don't know if this will come through in ASCII,
- > that's Kunt with an umlaut (two dots over the u), and it's pronounced
- > Koont by anyone who reads German, but of course all Americans pronounce
- > it Cunt), having been the butt end of jokes all his life, became a
- > chronic practial joker in retaliation. One of his practial jokes wound
- > him up in jail, where he proceeded to encounter many quite hilarious
- > situations.
- >
- > This is one of the few Westlake novels that is NOT about the Dortmunder
- > Gang, which also make for some good reading.
-
- Come to think of it, one of my customers in a previous life was named Cice
- Kuntz, pronounced SEE-see coonts. Man, was she a hag....
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