Finally!

[Laurence Horn]

At 7:43 AM -0700 9/27/07, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
>Unconsciously you knew the guy's name was / winr /.  Your brain
>tried to protect you.
>
>   Poor mathematician Norbert Weiner. His name was "Weiner" *and* "Norbert."
>
>   *And* he was a mathematician.
>

what *else* could he have been?

LH

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