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Art Eatman

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« Reply #25 on: September 21, 2005, 08:54:36 AM »
The wealthy Hogg family endowed Hogg Auditorium on the University of Texas campus in Austin.  They had a daughter named Ima.  They did NOT have a daughter named Ura.

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« Reply #26 on: September 21, 2005, 11:59:04 AM »
Swmbo reminded me that she had a dentist named Dr. Brace when she was a kid.
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« Reply #27 on: September 21, 2005, 02:39:19 PM »
There's a urologist in Austin named Dr. Dick Chopp.
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« Reply #28 on: September 21, 2005, 03:52:05 PM »
Hey! Wait a minute! What's wrong with Boadecia?? She was named after the queen of the Iceni, a Celtic tribe, and waged war against the Romans in the first century.

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Between AD 61 and AD 63 Boadicea led her Iceni people to a glorious but bloody war against the Romans. The Iceni Celts had submitted their kingdom in East Anglia to the conquering Romans and the rule of Emperor Claudius in AD 43. In AD 61, Prasutagus, Boadicea's husband and King of the Iceni died. A dispute followed during which Boadicea, was publicly beaten by the soldiers of the emperor, and her two daughters raped. The Iceni were insulted and rose in revolt led by their queen Boadicea. So successful was the uprising that the Romans were almost defeated. Unfortunately for the Iceni and their allies, the military skill of the Roman army finally led to the crushing of the rebellion.After the revolt, Roman rule was re-established. For almost two glorious years, Boadicea pillaged the Roman settlements; she remains to this day, the greatest of the heroines of Britain.

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« Reply #29 on: September 21, 2005, 05:39:09 PM »
Barbara,  Maybe that's where that Michigan Hillbilly term, Bodacious, comes from.
Whataya think?

PS:  Your ears been tingling?  Me and sm been talking about ya.  Wink
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« Reply #30 on: September 21, 2005, 07:49:05 PM »
At an old job doing shipping/receiving I once had a customer with the last name of Rectanus. Another good one was Dung La.
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« Reply #31 on: September 22, 2005, 12:15:00 AM »
Ha! I'm worried!

Although if you're using my name and bodacious in the same sentence, I'm ok with that. I might question your judgement, but I sure won't complain. Smiley

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« Reply #32 on: September 22, 2005, 04:45:57 AM »
One of my Vietnamese tenants once was named "Long Dong"  Im not kidding.
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« Reply #33 on: September 22, 2005, 07:00:39 PM »
One of the science teachers at my old school was Bates - forget his first name but he was a master there.  

Master bates LOL!
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