#29621 - 05/25/01 01:39 PM
Re: Redundantly tautological pleonastic names
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old hand
Registered: 01/12/01
Posts: 771
Loc: Portland, Oregon
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In reply to:
While slightly off the theme, I am reminded of a pair of doctors who used to practice together in Oregon City, Oregon, USA some while back. One was named Jack Chitty; the other was Cameron Bangs. Many were hoping that their children would join them in their practice, thus producing the Chitty-Chitty-Bangs Bangs Clinic.
That's hysterical, Geoff... I actually[tm] went to grade school with Shane and Chris Bangs, sons of Dr. Cameron Bangs! [Welling choruses of It's a Small World e]
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#29622 - 05/26/01 02:21 PM
Re: Redundantly tautological pleonastic names
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journeyman
Registered: 01/19/01
Posts: 87
Loc: City of Brotherly Love, no not...
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'pon my honor, I once met a woman who had named her daughter Vicky Victoria.
I still cringe at that.
So, regarding "by the sea" - what's the Cat's Elbow got to do with that? (I'm pretty dense, too.)
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#29623 - 05/27/01 08:48 AM
Re: Redundantly tautological pleonastic names
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old hand
Registered: 07/03/00
Posts: 1094
Loc: Cincinnati & Loveland, Ohio, U...
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'pon my honor, I once met a woman who had named her daughter Vicky Victoria.
Does she pretend to be a man pretending to be a woman?
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#29624 - 05/27/01 11:07 PM
Re: Redundantly tautological pleonastic names
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Carpal Tunnel
Registered: 04/09/00
Posts: 3065
Loc: Jakarta
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To Ledasdottir, StrophicAnna, and Dark Victory:
Gilly Gilly Osenfeffer Katzenellenbogen (thanks for the spelling Rhuby) by the sea is a nonsense chant used in British school playgrounds for skipping games.
Bingley
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#29626 - 05/31/01 06:50 PM
Re: Redundantly tautological pleonastic names
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addict
Registered: 12/14/00
Posts: 544
Loc: San Francisco, CA
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Although not pleonastic, or even neoplastic (at least not in public), the Dean of Academic Records at the University of Nevada at Reno, who was kind enough to send my former housemate a letter cheerily informing him that his grade of "Incomplete" in a math class had been changed to "F," is aptually named Charles V. Records.
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#29627 - 06/01/01 02:19 PM
Re: Redundantly tautological pleonastic names
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journeyman
Registered: 01/19/01
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Bingley - many thanks for the clarification. That's a bit like Olly Olly Oxen Free in the game of hide and seek, or, as one of my friends said it, Olly Olly Umfree. Jazz- Who knows. All I know is that that parent was a bit confused. 
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