In a recent note, Howard Brazee said: > Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2005 14:20:52 GMT > > On 10-Jun-2005, [log in to unmask] (Bruce Black) wrote: > > > Intercourse, PA is very close to Blue Ball, PA. > > In the Cayman Islands, they have a town named Hell (because of the > > strange, hellish rock formations there). Their principle industry is > > the post office/gift shop, where you can mail post cards postmarked Hell. > I had heard that some of those places were changing their names. And Beaver College, also in Pennsylvania, has become Arcadia University.
> The crater on the moon is named after a monk named Hell. Some Japanese > cities > starting with "Fu" can be read very close to what you might fear. > When my employer adopted a user ID standard of last name + first initial + middle initial, I searched switchbord.com and found someone who would probably never be an employment candidate. Who cares (other than the Bell Helicopter roboprig)? I guess we have nothing better to do. -- gil -- StorageTek INFORMATION made POWERFUL ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
