In message <[log in to unmask]> you wrote:
> >I once knew a consultant in GUM who called his daughter Candida.
This *has* to be a tall tale. Shureley!
> I think this thread had gone on long enough.
I disagree, though I would defend your right to
think otherwise.
> More people have odd names than you think.
> You have to live with a name to know the terrible
> things people can make out of it
> My house is called "The Pines". You would be amazed how
> many people mix up the letters and put "The Penis"
I once had an elderly aunt send me a birthday card
addressed to Eun Hotchkies.
And both my father and I have now had letters sent
to us, using the surname Hotpis.
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Iain Hotchkies ambition: polymath
currently: jack of all trades
www.hotch.demon.co.uk corollary: master of none
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