[863] in Humor
HUMOR: I *know* how it's spelled, but...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andrew A. Bennett)
Mon May 8 11:23:32 1995
To: humor@MIT.EDU
Date: Mon, 08 May 1995 11:18:52 EDT
From: "Andrew A. Bennett" <abennett@MIT.EDU>
From: Espacionaute Spiff domine! <MATOSSIAN@aries.colorado.edu>
Date: Sun, 07 May 1995 12:05:06 -0400
From: bostic@CS.Berkeley.EDU (Keith Bostic)
...
From: orwant@media-lab.media.mit.edu (Jon Orwant)
Subject: Re: Truman's middle name
[...]
A few years back I checked into the paperwork involved in changing your
name, with the idea of inserting an extraneous punctuation mark or two.
The form (in Cambridge, at least) has a spot for a Soundex code -- so you
can specify how your new name is pronounced. What a great opportunity:
"It's _spelled_ 'Bob Crabapple', but it's _pronounced_ 'Sloggoth,
Heir of the Damned.'"
