OT: The three Darrels

[Joel S. Berson]

At 10/29/2009 01:30 PM, Wilson Gray wrote:
>What are you trying to say, Jon? Just because my country cousins use
>the local pronunciation-spelling of "Farrell" instead of the
>probably-unknown-to-them standard spelling is no reason to be pointing
>the finger at them! I have another cousin whose middle name is "Dial"
>[d&@l], i.e. Darrell.

Wasn't he the villain in the Cary Grant / Audrey
Hepburn movie "Charade"?  First name Carson? 8-)

Joel


>-Wilson _Gray_
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>[I do but jest, of course. Except that, as a child, I really did think
>that my cousin's middle name was "Dial." Damned cool, I thought at the
>time.]
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>On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 1:14 PM, Jonathan Lighter
><wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com> wrote:
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