[Preston] Dave Stevens

Caroline preston at mailman.lug.org.uk
Wed Jul 23 09:25:02 2003


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>I am not very good with names, and the other day I was trying to remember
>names of people I had been introduced to a PLUG meetings. I looked in the
>member profiles section and counted that the most popular names on the list
>for PLUG members were Dave or Steven, therefore a random PLUG member is
>statistically more likely to be called one of those names.
>Maybe to eliminate name confusion in the future PLUG members should inherit
>from a superclass PLUG identity known as Dave Stevens, by which all subclass
>identities can be upcasted to.
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>It's a peculiar idea but not completely original:
>There is the Italian anarchist group that all changed their names to Luther
>Blisset.
>The Monty Python sketch where all the Australian Uni lecturers were called
>Bruce.
>A dead spacemonkey in Fight Club assumes the identity of Robert Palson.
>
>Ah well, time for my medication. ;-)
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>Dave Stevens

Yeah, fine for the males among us, but I don't want to be called Dave. I 
have naming problems, too, though, so maybe it wouldn't be such a bad move.