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From: emma@uw-june (Joe Pfeiffer)
Newsgroups: net.games.trivia
Subject: Re: Bonanza lyrics
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Date: Thu, 25-Aug-83 14:01:58 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug 25 14:01:58 1983
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Hoss was not a nickname.  Ben had promised his second wife (Hoss' mom)
that he would name a boy after her father.  Ben's father-in-law had
some perfectly reasonable name, which I don't recall.  Immediately
after Hoss was born, she told Ben that no, that was a nickname, her father's
REAL name was Hoss, and so that's what the kid was called.  If I
remember right, she died as a result of the birth and was gasping out
her last as she told Ben all this.
-Joe P.