XPost: alt.fan.cecil-adams   
   From: g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies   
      
   In message    
     Lesmond  wrote:   
   > On Thu, 7 Jan 2016 16:57:16 -0000 (UTC), Lewis wrote:   
      
   >>In message    
   >>  David Scheidt  wrote:   
   >>> In alt.folklore.urban Lewis  wrote:   
   >>>:In message    
   >>>:  danny burstein  wrote:   
   >>>:> Someone iN AuthOriTy is taking it seriously.   
   >>   
   >>>:> [SF Chronicle]   
   >>   
   >>>:> S.F. chief bars firefighters from buying Super Bowl badges   
   >>   
   >>>:> San Francisco is playing Super Bowl host city, but Fire Chief Joanne   
   >>>:> Hayes-White has nixed the idea of individual firefighters buying the   
   >>>:> NFL-sanctioned commemorative badges that celebrate the event - in part   
   >>>:> out of concern that the game leads to domestic violence.   
   >>   
   >>>:On what authority does he believe he can prohibit employees from buying   
   >>>:souvenirs?   
   >>   
   >>> He can prohibit the NFL from making them, since (assuming they're like   
   >>> the others I've seen) say "san francisco fire department" on them.   
   >>   
   >>First, that is not what the article says. Of course, it says very   
   >>little.   
   >>   
   >>Second, I doubt she has that authority anyway.   
   >>   
   >>(yes, she, I missed that in the original post).   
      
   > I've been wondering why so many of you think "Joanne" is a man's name.   
      
   I didn't, I simply glossed over the name, knowing the name was entirely   
   meaningless and useless to me. I would never need to know the name of the   
   fire chief of San Francisco.   
      
   It wasn't until I went back to the article again that I caught the name.   
      
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