Just for fun!

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From: Richard Masoner <richardm@cd.com>
To: higher-fire@prairienet.org <higher-fire@prairienet.org>
Date: Thursday, November 06, 1997 10:02 PM
Subject: Re: Just for fun!


>> *Once is Enough!*........Ann Landers write of a couple who has six
>> children, all named Eugene Jerome Dupuis, Junior.  The children answer to
>> One, Two, Three, Four, Five, and Six, respectively.

>
>I have a rule about Ann Landers: never believe anything in her column.
>I don't believe this tale.

Don't believe Ann, but George Foreman (the boxer) named all four of his boys
George.


>
>> *Initials Only*.......A new recruit in the U.S. Army filled out all the
>> forms he was presented with as he always had in school: R.(only)B.(only)
>> Jones.
>
>OLD joke, not a true story.  First recorded appearance in 1958 Readers
>Digest "Treasury of Humor."
>
>Likewise, WWII Army bureaucrats didn't have problems with people with
>no middle names.  The blanks in the forms were simply marked with
>"(NMI)," and everybody knew what that meant.

Kinda like H Norman Schwarzkopf.  His dad's first name was Herman or some
such, and he hated it.  The Army made him use it in all documentation, so he
decided to get even by making his son's first name "H".

I guess it really messed with everyone when he got to West Point.  =)

Brad