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Re: Speaking of Sam's Surname...
Posted By: Chrico, on host 212.188.131.197
Date: Tuesday, September 5, 2000, at 06:12:01
In Reply To: Re: Speaking of Sam's Surname... posted by Chrico on Tuesday, September 5, 2000, at 06:08:18:

> > There's a street in the neighborhood I grew up in called Stoddard Avenue. I used to ride my bike up that street as a shortcut to get home from the river bike trail. It's a fairly short street, but it has a lot of trees and nice landscaping around the houses. I'll have to take a picture of it (the streetsign) sometime...
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> > Gri"I bet nobody's ever seen a Grishny Street."shny
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> I have never seen a Grishny Street, but I have seen a Cockbill Street (for that is my real surname). In fact, I saw it in a book.
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> In "Feet Of Clay" by Terry Pratchett (yes, him again), it is revealed that Captain of the Night Watch, Samuel Vimes, was born in Cockbill Street. I wrote a letter to him asking where he got the name of the street from. He replied that he couldn't remember. Typical.
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> Chr"Please don't laugh at my last name"ico

I'd just like to clarify that I wrote a letter to Terry Pratchett, and not Samuel Vimes, as he is a fictional character. So there.

Chr"SPEAKS LIKE THIS..."ico