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Subject: [OM] Re: OT Re: What's in a name - really OT
From: "Gordon J. Ross" <gordross@xxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2004 21:50:44 -0600
HI:

A newly arrived Vietnamese guy was hired by Met Life- his name Fuk Yu-

My question? How did he ever get by Customs and Immigration?
Imagine the Customs Officer's first question,

"What's your name?"


  Fuk Yu

Gord

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Donald MacDonald" <d1956m198d@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, August 16, 2004 12:52 PM
Subject: [OM] Re: OT Re: What's in a name - really OT


>
> On Mon, 16 Aug 2004 09:52:52 -0400, Gary Teller <gmteller@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
> > on 2004/08/15 8:20 AM, Wayne Harridge at wayneharridge@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > wrote:
> >
> >  > Dunno if this is just an Oz phenomenon or not, but there seems to be
a
> >  > fashion here for naming children (particularly girls) after USofA
> >  > states.  Is this widespread, does it happen in the USofA itself ?
> >
> >
>
> We had a Pocahontas here a couple of years ago. There should be a law...
>
> D.
>
> PS - the nurses called her 'wee Pokie' (but not while the parents were
> there...)
>
> -- 
> Donald Neil MacDonald BA DipLIS
> www.skelpitheid.com
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