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From: ches@cheswick.com (William Cheswick)
Subject: [TUHS] Of login names
Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2016 06:42:28 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <764FC5A1-5F2D-4007-996F-89DFE17945BC@cheswick.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9a8ab85cdfb2b6ad42477ff146f10538.squirrel@webmail.yaccman.com>

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I heard that Bob Morris was asked for his initials, he said “rm”, they insisted on a middle initial,
which he didn’t have, so he supplied “h”, hence “rhm”.

This looks right: wikipedia does not mention a middle name, and Fred Grampp used to tell stories such as:

	They asked me for a social security number.

	I told them I dont’ give that out.

	They said, “Sir, I need a number.”

	He replied, “Okay, 123456789.”

	“No, sir, that number is no good…”

It’s definitely something Bob would do, but I can’t imagine that 1127 would have some rules about
this. 

As for me, I had been known for 20 years as “BC.”  When I got to the labs, Barbara Chambers
had beaten me to letters, hence “ches”.



  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-07-18 10:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-07-17 12:05 Norman Wilson
2016-07-17 12:32 ` Ronald Natalie
2016-07-17 23:09 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2016-07-18  4:06   ` scj
2016-07-18  4:09     ` Larry McVoy
2016-07-18 10:42     ` William Cheswick [this message]
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2016-07-18 15:44 Doug McIlroy
2016-07-18 15:50 ` Joerg Schilling
2016-07-18 18:03   ` Ronald Natalie
2016-07-18 18:12     ` Steve Nickolas
2016-07-18 14:35 Norman Wilson
2016-07-18 14:44 ` Mary Ann Horton
2016-07-18 14:55   ` Ronald Natalie
2016-07-18 18:07 ` Steve Simon
2016-07-19  9:50   ` Tony Finch
2016-07-26 12:45   ` Tim Bradshaw
2016-07-26 13:07     ` George Ross
     [not found] <mailman.79.1468802270.30583.tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
2016-07-18 14:06 ` David
2016-07-19 12:41   ` Aaron Jackson
2016-10-19 20:53     ` Michael-John Turner
2016-10-19 22:35       ` Aaron Jackson
2016-07-17  8:06 Rudi Blom
2016-07-17  8:16 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2016-07-17 11:42 ` Ronald Natalie
2016-07-17 22:59   ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2016-07-18  0:37     ` Brantley Coile
2016-07-18 10:51       ` William Cheswick
2016-07-16 16:54 Dave Horsfall
2016-07-16 23:04 ` Paul Osborne
2016-07-18 12:24   ` Tony Finch
2016-07-18 13:21     ` John Cowan
2016-07-17  2:56 ` Win Treese
2016-07-17  6:39 ` Tim Bradshaw

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