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Toni Savage
January 11th, 2008, 02:06 PM
Similar to the (possibly apocryphal) R B Jones who had trouble with the Social Security admin in the 40's, which INSISTED that he have a first and middle name! In exaspteration, after several attempts to make them understand, he signed his letter: R(ONLY) B (ONLY) Jones!

Sure enough, they finall understood, and he got his SS Card as:

Ronly Bonly Jones

(I think this story surfaced after Harry S Truman was elected... who had no middle name)

-- Toni Savage


--- On Fri, 1/11/08, Paul Keating <pjakeating (AT) gmail (DOT) com> wrote:

> From: Paul Keating <pjakeating (AT) gmail (DOT) com>
> Subject: [Dixonary] Re: Round 1874: New word
> To: Dixonary (AT) googlegroups (DOT) com
> Date: Friday, January 11, 2008, 12:44 PM
> I remember reading a letter to a magazine by someone called
> Clarke, who once
> gave her name over the phone as "Clarke, with an
> E", only to have the
> invoice come back addressed to Clark-Withaney.
>
> >> ...while giving my email address to some company
> or other over the
> >> phone, I told them "My last name, widdis,
> at gmail dot com." They
> >> ended up typing in: mylastnamewiddis (AT) gmail (DOT) com

Paul Keating
January 11th, 2008, 06:07 PM
On Jan 11, 9:06 pm, Toni Savage <tonicsav... (AT) yahoo (DOT) com> wrote:
>
> (I think this story surfaced after Harry S Truman was elected... who had no middle name)
>


It works the other way, too. I had some difficulty when I presented my
birth certificate to the municipal authorities in The Hague because it
shows I have two middle names, but my passport (in accordance with ISO
7501) only shows one.

Paul Keating
January 12th, 2008, 04:37 AM
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