Re: Linguistic Agonies

Des Small wrote:

(Incidentally, is it an iron rule or merely one of thumb that persons
posting to Usenet - whatever that is - with an screen name including
"Dr." will turn out to be barking hatstand?

Des
can't think of any counterexamples)


But he's supposed to be Dr. Dr., so he's humbly dropped the first Dr.
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