[Preston] Dave Stevens

Phil Robinson preston at mailman.lug.org.uk
Wed Jul 23 09:35:01 2003


Hmmm,

Maybe I should implement the ability to upload photos into the profiles, or
take mugshots at the next meeting!

( :-o )



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From: "Guy Heatley" <guy@remember-tomorrow.co.uk>
To: <preston@mailman.lug.org.uk>
Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2003 12:38 AM
Subject: [Preston] Dave Stevens


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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.
>
> 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. ;-)
> - --
> Dave Stevens
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