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Re: someone mention my name?...
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Date: 
Tue, 19 Dec 2000 20:53:41 GMT
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Franklin W. Cain wrote:
> 
> (Notice "follow-up"...)
> 
> In lugnet.cad.dev, Steve Bliss writes:
> > 
> > BTW, every time I type your name, I have to restrain myself
> > from calling you Frank.  That's something I wouldn't have even
> > thought of, if you hadn't put it in your sig.  ;)
> 
> *Sigh*...  I *had* to start putting that in my email "sig",
> 'cuz of the number of in-duh-viduals who, after seeing my name
> as _Franklin_W._Cain_ (*full* first name, *plus* middle initial),
> would start off by saying/writing, "Hi, _Frank_",
> and then I would have to restrain the impulse to throttle them.

That's all right, I always have to deal with folks who can't understand
that my name isn't short for something else. Frankly my dear, I'm just a
plain old "Frank", not Franklin, or Francis, or Frankie, or anything
else...

--
Frank Filz

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Work: mailto:ffilz@us.ibm.com (business only please)
Home: mailto:ffilz@mindspring.com



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(Notice "follow-up"...) (...) *Sigh*... I *had* to start putting that in my email "sig", 'cuz of the number of in-duh-viduals who, after seeing my name as _Franklin_W._Cain_ (*full* first name, *plus* middle initial), would start off by (...) (26 years ago, 18-Dec-00, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.off-topic.fun)

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