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Date:         Sat, 12 Jan 2002 23:50:42 +1200
Reply-To:     Andrew Grebneff <andrew.grebneff@STONEBOW.OTAGO.AC.NZ>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Andrew Grebneff <andrew.grebneff@STONEBOW.OTAGO.AC.NZ>
Subject:      Re: What's in their names...
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>So, share with us your examples of nominative determinism. It would be >especially interesting to find someone whose name somehow related to our >involvement in the Vanagon mythos.

Arnold Schwartzenegger, who has the muscles of a schwartzenegger (an old blacksmith's foundry bellowsman).

A fisherman called Fisher.

Someone called Walker, who walks...

So who knows Rooshen? What's a grebneff?


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