I left Hope Behind

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jemhouston
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I left Hope Behind

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Hope, Arkansas that is.

I'm driving from Houston to Indiana to see my sister and her family for Thanksgiving. Two things, one I drove past the Remington Ammo plant, I don't think they were working, but given the traffic I can't be sure.

One stretch of I-40 was named for Trooper Clark Kent Simpson. I suspect that's where he was killed when his squad car was hit by a semi. https://www.odmp.org/officer/12267-troo ... nt-simpson

Why would anyone give a son with first name of Clark the middle name of Kent?

Then again, I at one time worked with James Bond, and yes he was in a security related field.
Jeff Thomas
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No I am not making this up.

A long time ago my wife lived next door to a family with three children, two boys and a girl. Their names were Peter, Jack and Bunny. Anybody want to guess what the family name was?
DaveAAA
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I once worked with a guy named Richard Head. Yes, he went by "Dick:.
DaveAAA
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Jeff Thomas wrote: Sun Nov 19, 2023 3:04 am No I am not making this up.

A long time ago my wife lived next door to a family with three children, two boys and a girl. Their names were Peter, Jack and Bunny. Anybody want to guess what the family name was?
Caerbannog?
warshipadmin
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My good friend Dick Head has two boys, Tom and Harry. His wife has the worst temper of anybody I know, I haven't bothered asking her opinion of that.
gtg947h
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DaveAAA wrote: Thu Nov 23, 2023 3:20 am I once worked with a guy named Richard Head. Yes, he went by "Dick:.
Yeah we had a guy at work named Richard Johnson (they called him "Redundant" behind his back) and we had a teacher in high school named Richard Weed. Both went by Dick, of course.
David Newton
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Just about the only worse name would be Richard Peter Johnson.
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Back in the 1970s, there was a crazy conspiracy guy (crazy even by conspiracy theorist standards) who distributed a monthly audio tape with all of his baroque theories...

Doctor Peter Beter. (Yes, it rhymed.)
JBG
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I once had a Minister who went by the name Richard Face. He chose not to use one particular diminutive of the name Richard. Can't imagine why...

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My high school choir teacher was named Richard P. Eckstein.

We, of course, assumed that his middle name was Peter, so we called him Dick-Dick.

Turns out that his middle name was actually Paige.

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