When my dad went into the navy in WWII, a guy foolishly filled in part of the
paperwork "Same As Above".  Yup, he went through the whole war as Sam Asabove.
No "bleep"

tom

On 8 Apr 2004 at 21:41, Joy Hecht wrote:

> When my dad was in the army (WWII) he had a friend named Walter Smith, who
> was also in the army.  They organized people by last name for training
> purposes.
>
> Walter Smith was in a class where everyone in the whole class was named
> Walter Smith.
>
> It's almost Friday, does that count?
>
>
>
>
> Joy
>
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM]On Behalf
> > Of George Goff
> > Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2004 12:18 PM
> > To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> > Subject: Re: David Marshall / A Rose by Any Other Name ...
> >
> >
> > In a message dated 4/7/04 12:27:39 PM, vanagon@VOLKSWAGEN.ORG writes:
> >
> > << At least I am not John Smith! >>
> >
> > I went to school with Joe Smith and Wolfgang Fundinger.  Joe
> > hated his name
> > because whenever he introduced himself, a lot of people thought
> > he was joking.
> > Wolfgang must have had the same problem.  Once I called information to get
> > Wolfgang's number and the operator hung up on me.
> >
> > I am sure this information has enriched everyone's life.
> >
> > George
> >
>

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Tom Ring K0TAR, ex-WA2PHW  EN34hx
85 Westphalia GL Albert
96 Jetta GL The Intimidator
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