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Subject:Re: What's in their names...
From:Stan Wilder
Date:Fri, 11 Jan 2002 22:29:54 -0600

This is a true one:
I worked for an Olds dealer and the service manager was named Bromo
Seltzer.
Another Ford dealer in town had a service manager named Matt Dillon.
I had a blind date once with a girl named Nelwin Turnipseed.
All true.

Stan
On Fri, 11 Jan 2002 21:59:59 -0600 Joel Walker <jwalker17@EARTHLINK.NET>
writes:
> > So, share with us your examples of nominative determinism.  It
> would
> be
> > especially interesting to find someone whose name somehow related
> to
> our
> > involvement in the Vanagon mythos.
>
> well, i used to work for the water works and the sewer processing
> station, back in my younger days. we had ditch-diggers, or as we
> called 'em, hole-diggers, or just holers.
>
> the highest paid holer was the operator of the big backhoe. he was
> called one-holer.
>
> the next best holer was operator of the smaller backhoe. he was
> called
> two-holer.
>
> each one had a driver or assistant. they were called ass. holes.
>
> :)
>
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