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From: mark@sdencore.UUCP (Mark DiVecchio)
Newsgroups: net.jokes
Subject: Silent letters is proper names.
Message-ID: <121@sdencore.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 15-Jun-85 00:03:46 EDT
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Posted: Sat Jun 15 00:03:46 1985
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In article <3843@alice.UUCP> benl@alice.UUCP (Ben Liberman) writes:
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>Ben Liberman
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>Actually, I spell my name Be3n. The 3 is silent, you see.

Dear Be3n,

	Your name reminds me of a friend of Tom Lehrer from the mid
sixties. His name was Hen3ry. The 3 was also silent. Hen3ry was 
finacially independent and was able to devote full time to such
intellectual pursuits such as writing. You may remember a heart
warming novel of his about a young necrophilic who achieved his
boyhood ambition by becoming coroner. Hen3ry was also a philosopher.
One wise piece of advice which he gave as they were taking him away
to the Massachusetts State Home for the Bewildered : "Life is like a
sewer, what you get out of it depends on what you put into it."
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                                    Wasted
For more about Hen3ry, see "An Evening ^ with Tom Lehrer"
Words and music by Tom Lehrer, Reprise RS-6199.
-- 
Mark C. DiVecchio
K3FWT
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