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From: Clayton Cramer <optilink!cramer@ames.arc.nasa.gov>
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Subject: Re: Last Laugh! Noms de Guerre
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Date: 5 Feb 90 17:55:51 GMT
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In article <3445@accuvax.nwu.edu>, rtech!llama.rtech.UUCP!jas@sun.com (Jim 
Shankland) writes:
 
> In article <3360@accuvax.nwu.edu> julian@bongo.uucp (julian macassey) writes:
 
# #	If you really think that you are so wonderful that the great
# #unwashed should not be able to call you, there is a cheap and useful
# #solution: List your phone under a nom de guerre. Yes, just tell the
# #telco that you want the name in the phone book to be Ivan Boesky or
# #Jim Bakker....
 
# Two such entries from the San Francisco white pages (last name first
# for both):
 
# 	Wheldone Rumproast IV
# 	Wong Numba

This is California.  Those may not be pseudonyms -- they could be
their legal names.  (It's even possible those are the names on their
birth certificates -- you should see some of the acid-induced names
from the 1960s out here).


Clayton E. Cramer {pyramid,pixar,tekbspa}!optilink!cramer
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