AUGH!

Dan Parmenter · 22 Jun 1999, 19:05 · from urth-v0027.mbox · original

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From: Dan Parmenter <dan at lec.com>
Subject: (urth) AUGH!
Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 19:05:06
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From: Charles Dye <raster at highfiber.com>

> I shipped a set of six workstations once, and gave them network names
> of Thecla, Dorcas, Jolenta, Pia, Daria, and Valeria.  The MIS people
> who bought them immediately renamed 'em after Peanuts characters, of
> course.  Life just is not fair.

Which of course gets one thinking:

Charlie Brown - Severian
Lucy - Thecla
Sally - Merryn
Snoopy - Triskele
Linus - Jonas
Pigpen - Hethor
Peppermint Patty - Agia
Miss Othmar - Malrubius

Lex Shellac, contemplating Charlie Brown (after eating Lucy's brain)
pulling the football away at the last minute from himself.

p.s. I've heard the names "Dorcas" and "Ultan" on television within
the last week.  The latter on CNN I think, though I don't recall where
the person was from.

LS

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