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There was that old wretch James Hogg, who named his daughter Ima. Miss Ima (she never married, so she carried the name all her life) was apparently a really neat person and greatly beloved in her community.
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in the Minneapolis phonebook you will find the name Rockets Galore -- and this is evidently not the same person as the recently deceased East Village character actor (Michael Morra).
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...but I just had to ask:
What if Tony Santa married Greta Klaus?...and his brother, Rudolph, was best man?
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in the Minneapolis phonebook you will find the name Rockets Galore -- Er--was this by any chance in The Yellow Pages, under Escort Services?
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I did know an English woman in Singapore (and this one is true) called Penny Strange who later married a local lad whose surname (I forget his first name) was Chin, and bravely went ahead calling herself Penny Strange Chin. I heard much later they'd got divorced but I don't think that was the reason.
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In reply to:
in the Minneapolis phonebook you will find the name Rockets Galore -- Er--was this by any chance in The Yellow Pages, under Escort Services?
well, that was a beauty of a slip... it was meant to be Rockets Redglare, of course (the answer on that one would be NO! -- and shame on you, jackie!!)
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There *is a Cardinal Sin in the RC Church in the Philipines.
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shame on you, jackie!!)I am UTTERLY unrepentant!
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In the days when few houses had running water, there used to be a little house behind the house, sometimes called a backhouse. So Backhouse as a family name seemed risible. One got to be an Admiral, but he never became Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal.
. "Admiral Sir Roger Backhouse was an old friend and had been Gunnery Officer in Dreadnought "
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The Yellow Pages
One of my favourites from this wonderous tome is a cross-reference link: under the heading ENGINEERS it simply said
see Boring
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