Date: Mon, 5 Apr 1999 19:37:31 -0700 From: Gregory Sutter <gsutter@pobox.com> To: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@futuresouth.com> Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Fatherless figures Message-ID: <19990405193731.I24767@001101.zer0.org> In-Reply-To: <19990405212819.P11572@futuresouth.com>; from Matthew D. Fuller on Mon, Apr 05, 1999 at 09:28:19PM -0500 References: <37094CDE.56F1268F@plutotech.com> <19990406000112.JCJL5596385.mta1-rme@wocker> <19990405185530.F24767@001101.zer0.org> <19990405212819.P11572@futuresouth.com>
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On Mon, Apr 05, 1999 at 09:28:19PM -0500, Matthew D. Fuller wrote: > On Mon, Apr 05, 1999 at 06:55:30PM -0700, a little birdie told me > that Gregory Sutter remarked > > > > I just moved from Pennsylvania, USA (near Atlantic) to California, USA > > (near Pacific). I've also gone from having my surname misspelt (Futter, > > Suter, Sutler, etc), mispronounced (Soo-ter, most commonly) and > > generally bent out of shape... to having a surfeit of Sutter. > > Everything in northern California seems to be named Sutter, thanks to > > the gent on whose property gold was discovered in 1849. There is a > > Sutter County, Sutter's Fort, Sutter's Mill, as well as Sutter hospital, > > countless Sutter streets, and so on, and so on, and so on. The one > > benefit is that nobody here asks me to spell or pronounce my name. > > Don't forget Sutter Home vineyards. > Quite fine wine, I especially reccomend the Zinfandel. Really? I'm not much of a wine snob, but I've always considered that winery a blight on the family name. <shrug> Maybe I am a wine snob. :) Greg -- Gregory S. Sutter The best way to accelerate Windows mailto:gsutter@pobox.com is at 9.8 m/s^2. http://www.pobox.com/~gsutter/ PGP DSS public key 0x40AE3052 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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