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From: gooley@uicsl.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Changing names
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Date: Tue, 16-Sep-86 21:12:00 EDT
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Posted: Tue Sep 16 21:12:00 1986
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Nf-From: uicsl.UUCP!gooley    Sep 16 20:12:00 1986


What's so ordinary about the name Smith?  G. K. Chesterton once wrote an
essay about the romance and excitement behind the name.  Recall what a
smith does, especially a blacksmith: pounding red-hot steel into shape.
Dull?  Prosaic?  Hardly.  (Chesterton put it much better than I can.)  If
my name were Smith, I would take great pride in it.