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One of the pleasures of having a very common name
like "Dave Smith" or "Mark Johnson" is that you get
to meet lots of other people with the very same
name. You also get a bunch of email messages that
say "are you the Jeff Brown who attended Pocatello
High School from '90-'94 and worked at the cement
factory on 14th street?" Occasionally the frequency
of these namesake encounters is so large that I
am reminded of the PIC expression "You can't swing a
dead cat in here without hitting a Mark Johnson".
Not too surprisingly, it has happened here on the Omega-List.
I, Mark Johnson (email: janitor@xxxxxxxxxxxx), and
namesake Mark Johnson (email: markjohnson102@xxxxxxxxxxx)
are both subscribers. Let us hope it doesn't cause too
much confusion.
Monty Python's Flying Circus dealt with this about 25
years ago in their sketch "Drinking Philosophers" in
which the entire faculty of the Philosophy Department
of the University of Wollomaloo (Australia) was named
"Bruce". A new hire named "Michael" comes aboard and
is immediately renamed "Bruce" to avoid confusion.
Then they sing a philosophic song that accuses many
famous philosophers of drunkenness:
... There's nothing Nietzsche couldn't teach
About the raising of the wrist;
Socrates himself was permanently pisst.
John Stuart Mill, of his own free will,
Drank a half a bottle shandy, got particularly ill.
Plato, they say, could piss it away,
Half a crate of whiskey every day.
Aristotle, Aristotle,
Was a bugger for the bottle,
Hobbes was fond of his dram;
And Rene Descarte was a drunken fart,
I drink, therefore I am.
That said, here's a big welcome to (another) Mark Johnson!
>Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2002 17:50:50 +0000
>From: "mark johnson" <markjohnson102@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>To: omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: Futures Truth Top Ten "Grand Cayman"
>Message-ID: <F204NsjUHQHh2wLCVYl00005d8d@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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>Has anybody some real-time experience of "Futures Truth Top Ten " ranked
>system named 'Grand Cayman" from Taurus?
>
>Mark Johnson
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