What city has two names twice?

[Mullins, Bill AMRDEC]

I've always assumed that Billy Dee Williams' given name is William
Williams.  What were his parents thinking?

> Another near-miss is "J'onn J'onzz," the "Manhunter from Mars."
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>   He was a cool and bald even before Mr. Clean.
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>   Green, though.
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>   JL
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> Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
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> The name, Sirhan Sirhan, was parodied as "Saran Saranwrap" in
> the '60's flick, _Putney Swope_.
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> -Wilson
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> On 10/26/06, Mullins, Bill AMRDEC wrote:
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> > New York was _not_ home, however, to Sirhan Sirhan, the assassin so
> > nice they named him twice.
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> > > A variant of Jon's version:
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> > > New York, New York: the town so nice that they named it twice.
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> > > -Wilson
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> > > On 10/25/06, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
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> > > > New York, New York.
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> > > > "A city so nice, they named it twice." (Many thousands of
> > > > Googlits.)
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> > > > JL
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> > > > According to http://gc.kls2.com/airport/VHHH, it is
> > > Hong Kong, Hong Kong.
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> > > > - Jim Landau (18 KY, 4 MI, 17 DC, 20 SJ)
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> strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have
> had to live.
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> Whoever has lived long enough to find out what life is knows
> how deep a debt of gratitude we owe to Adam, the first great
> benefactor of our race. He brought death into the world.
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