| From: | Anton Sherwood <bronto@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, December 16, 2001, 23:47 |
Nik Taylor wrote:> . . . on my Mom's side of the family, every male > member has the middle name "Paul". . . .I like the idea of a name hereditary in the female line only. Dad's middle name is Arne, mine was Anthony (now Anton), my sister's was Anitra (now Duck); so when a brother came along he got Alan. Who remembers a couple of children's books, <The Great Brain> and <Me and my Little Brain> by John D. Fitzgerald? Every male in the narrator's family has the same middle name David, to remind them NOT to repeat some shameful act of an ancestor or great-uncle of that name. The narrator is called J.D., so I wonder how much truth there is in it. -- Anton Sherwood -- http://www.ogre.nu/
| Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |