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Frankly, I'm a fan of the Institute of Silly Walks... ;~)
Best regards,
Gene Pope
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Johnson" <janitor@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2002 8:34 AM
Subject: You can't swing a dead cat (was: Futures Truth "Grand Cayman")
> 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>
> >Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed
> >
> >Has anybody some real-time experience of "Futures Truth Top Ten " ranked
> >system named 'Grand Cayman" from Taurus?
> >
> >Mark Johnson
>
>
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