From: b.scott@csuohio.edu   
      
   On Sat, 25 Oct 2014 22:58:12 -0700 (PDT), William Vetter   
    wrote in   
      
   in rec.arts.sf.composition:   
      
   > On Sunday, October 26, 2014 12:53:45 AM UTC-4, Brian M. Scott wrote:   
   > The other is a   
      
   >> former student who had black hair and the funniest name I   
   >> ever encountered in a class: Ivan Ho.   
      
   > It's not so unusual.  A lot of Asians give their children first   
   > names of Catholic saints.  I've met a couple of Chinese Stanislauses.   
      
   I don’t know whether this particular combination of forename   
   and surname is unusual or not, but it’s very funny, and NOT   
   because it’s Russo-Chinese.  Think about it.   
      
   Brian   
   --   
   It was the neap tide, when the baga venture out of their   
   holes to root for sandtatties.  The waves whispered   
   rhythmically over the packed sand: haggisss, haggisss,   
   haggisss.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)