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<font size=3>At 2/7/2010 12:26 PM, Dan Goncharoff wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">It may be a bit too much for
you, but ffolliott, with the small initial<br>
'f', is authentic, as any peerage site will tell
you.</font></blockquote><br>
I was testing you. And did you miss my "two much"?
:-)<br><br>
Joel<br><br>
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<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite=""><font size=3>DanG<br><br>
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On 2/7/2010 11:21 AM, Joel S. Berson wrote:<br>
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<font size=3>At 2/7/2010 10:32 AM, Jonathan Lighter
wrote:<br><br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">When I was ten
or eleven I saw<br>
an old movie on TV that contained the<br><br>
following bit of dialogue. It always stuck in my mind, which shows
that<br>
by<br><br>
that age your kid's fate is sealed.<br><br>
I'm posting it because I just saw the movie again for the first time<br>
since<br><br>
and it confirmed my recollection. Till now I had no idea what movie
it<br>
was<br><br>
because this was the only part I
remembered:</font></blockquote><br><br>
Of course, you don't tell us what movie it
is. "Foreign<br>
Correspondent" (1940), one of Hitchcock's classics.
(ffolliott<br>
is a bit two much, doubling all of the consonants in his
surname. <br>
But what do you expect of a character played by George
Sanders.)<br><br><br>
Joel<br><br><br>
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<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite=""><font
size=3>Johnny Jones: This<br>
is Scott ffolliott, newspaperman same as you....Mr.<br><br>
Haverstock, Mr. ffolliott.<br><br>
Scott ffolliott: With a double 'F'.<br><br>
Johnny Jones: How do you do?<br><br>
Scott ffolliott: How do you do?<br><br>
Johnny Jones: I don't get the double 'F'.<br><br>
Scott ffolliott: They're at the beginning. Both small 'F's<br><br>
Johnny Jones: They can't be at the beginning.<br><br>
Scott ffolliott: One of my ancestors was beheaded by Henry VIII. His<br>
wife<br><br>
dropped the capital letter to commemorate it. There it is.<br><br>
Johnny Jones: How do you say it, like a stutter?<br><br>
Scott ffolliott: Just a straight 'fuh'.<br><br><br>
There was, of course, the noted English historian"Charles<br>
ffoulkes" [sic].<br><br>
His surname derives from the same source as that of Guy Fawkes, so<br>
perhaps<br><br>
Mr. ffolliott's practice reflects that of Mr. ffoulkes's<br>
ffamily.</font></blockquote></body><br>
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