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#36221 07/22/01 12:54 PM
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I like to scan the wedding announcements page of the local paper on Sundays, looking for those serendipitous name combinations. One today made me laugh out loud:



CHRISTMAS-BELL

The engagement of Teresa Christmas to Daniel Bell, both of East Lansing, is announced. ..... She is the daughter of Carol and Wesley Christmas of DeWitt. ....



I *do* hope that they are planning a December wedding.



#36222 07/22/01 01:06 PM
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I love it, I love it!

And Wesley's kinda appropriate too... didn't he write some (albeit dour) Christmas tunes?


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<groan> I do hope they don't present their first-born with the name Carolyn Noel.


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or Ringo


#36225 07/23/01 01:45 AM
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Welcome back, Aunt mav!
I think they should name their first child Jingle,
and the second, Ding-dong.


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I once knew the Dressing family... their children were Blue Cheese and Turkey Ann. Yes, really.


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I knew someone whose last name was McDade. he was born on December 25, and his parents named him "Chris."


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I've only seen something as silly as Blue Cheese in vanity plates.

the Selzter's had two cars, two vanity plates-- ALKA and BROMO

Alka selzer and Bromo selzer are US brands of antacids


#36229 07/23/01 06:54 PM
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One of the local alternative newspapers last week published a picture with no caption. (Two pictures, actually). They were so eloquent about the wisdom of the city bureaucrats that they needed no words. The first picture showed about half a block of a downtown street, no cars or traffic, a fireplug near the curb in the foreground. The second was a close-up of the area with the fireplug so you could see, if you hadn't noticed it in the other view, that there is a parking meter right alongside the fireplug.


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I once knew the Dressing family... their children were Blue Cheese and Turkey Ann. Yes, really.

I suppose the chilluns should be grateful that Mom and Pop stopped short of "Ranch" and "1000 Islands" ... although they might be preferable, I suppose.



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