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to: Bill Grimsley
from: Rod Speed
date: 1995-02-18 14:32:40
subject: sticks and stones

BG> But we don't need Lord Wog Rollo, we already have Paul Edwards! |-)

BL> ROFL! What Paul really needs is a funny name. How about:
BL> Paul Asian Slope Hitler.

BG> Funny that everybody baulks at people named Hitler, yet nobody gives
BG> a stuff about people named Schickelgruber, which was Adolf's real
BG> name.  Funnier still that some people still hate Germans, yet don't
BG> mind Austrians.  Old Adolf set quite a precedent, you know.  50 years
BG> later, Qld had their very own dictator who was neither born here, nor
BG> was he even a naturalised Australian.  Where else in the world can a
BG> NZ-born Dane become a State Premier (and aspire to become PM as well) ??

Quite a few places actually. One of the South American countrys actually
has a Japanese running it. Chile ?  Forget, Fujimore certainly.

And the poms had german kings and various other flavors too.

BL> I'm not sure how you'd go renaming yourself Kentucky
BL> Fried Chicken Grimsley, but I guess you could do it.

BG> Dunno, Collins Food International hold the copyright to that name, and
BG> I strongly doubt they'd let you get away with copyright infringement.

BL> Not as a *personal* name, though, Bill. They have it registered
BL> as a commercial name. It's an interesting point. Presumably, I
BL> could change my name to Kentucky Fried Chicken, and then go into
BL> business trading on my own name.

BG> I think you'd find that was about the time you'd cop a
BG> lawsuit (and possibly a couple of broken legs as well).

I doubt it, bet you could do it actually, atleast have that
as a personal name.

You occasionally see someone play silly buggers with
a politicians name in an election campaign.

I knew one dork who renamed himself Z, that was his entire
name, when he was running as a candidate in an election.

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