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Subject:Re: Names?
From:Andrew Grebneff
Date:Sat, 22 Oct 2005 18:40:07 +1300

>>Can you imagine having to change your family name because a
>>corporation
>>doesn't like you?
>
>don't work that way.... in birmingham, alabama, there's a fellow named
>Charles Saab who runs a tire store.
>he got a letter from a lawyer telling him to cease and desist using
>Saab in the name of his store cause the car company didn't like it.
>really nasty letter.
>
>he just mailed a copy of his birth certificate back to the lawyer.
>
>never heard another word. :)
>
>uj

I know of a scientist in Germany. His name is Rolland T Fuck. Not
Fuch. Can you imagine the fun (at the price of some hassles) he could
have in an Englisch-sprechen country?
--
Andrew Grebneff
Dunedin
New Zealand
Fossil preparator
<andrew.grebneff@stonebow.otago.ac.nz>
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