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Forum Name: Undocumented Features General
Topic ID: 23
Message ID: 11
#11, RE: Last Names - why?
Posted by Gryphon on Jun-08-01 at 09:06 PM
In response to message #10
>I dunno, especially in the case of the UF storyline, I always
>thought Benjamin D. Hutchins had a sort of 'Chester W. Nimitz' or
>'William F. Halsey, Jr.' ring to it, therefore really making it ring
>true once the character had a shipyard to run. My $.02.

I guess so. I've gotten used to the way it looks on me, but it still strikes me as rather clunky when hung on many other characters. I'm certainly not ashamed of it, but it just doesn't ring right in a lot of cases...

>>(What's that you say? His mother died in the radium explosion in
>>UF? Yeah... that's what he thought too, at the time... )
>
>Buh?! <snarf>
>
>Damn you, sir, you story leaking bastard. You enjoy doing that, don't
>you? :)

It's one of the great joys of having these forums.

--G.
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