What city has two names twice?
Jerome Foster
funex79 at CHARTER.NET
Wed Nov 1 21:09:57 UTC 2006
William B's B was for Breitbart, his real last name. In his day Breitbart
was probably too "ethnic" for radio...
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>>Then there was the afternoon dj on WNEW in NY ... William B. Williams: he
>>always claimed that his middle name was Bill!
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> no relation to Wm Carlos Wms. Maybe there's something about William(s).
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>>On 11/1/06, Orion Montoya <gorion at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>>Wikipedia:
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>>>Billy Dee Williams (born William December Williams Jr. on 6 April 1937
>>>in New York City)
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>>>So blame the grandparents. Any ANS-ers who can talk about the
>>>likelihood that Sr. was born in December?
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>>>O.
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>>>On 10/27/06, Mullins, Bill AMRDEC <Bill.Mullins at us.army.mil> wrote:
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>>>> I've always assumed that Billy Dee Williams' given name is William
>>>> Williams. What were his parents thinking?
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