From: b.scott@csuohio.edu   
      
   On Thu, 25 Jun 2015 23:39:07 +0100, Raymond Daley   
    wrote   
   in in   
   rec.arts.sf.composition:   
      
   > "Dirk van den Boom"  wrote in message   
   > news:cv2jkeFl4mqU1@mid.individual.net...   
      
   >> Am 25.06.2015 um 16:59 schrieb Bill Swears:   
      
   >>> I keep looking at Amazon, keep being disappointed.   
   >>> Should I be looking on Amazon.de?   
      
   >> I'm waiting, too.   
   >> Any time from now.   
      
   > Dude. That is one awesome name. Boom as a surname?   
      
   It means ‘tree’.   
      
   > But add the rest? Dirk Van Dem Boom.   
      
   And  is ‘of/from the tree’.   
      
   [...]   
      
   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   
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