[Ads-l] Jhoey

[Nancy Friedman]

Or the American designer Jhane (pronounced "Jane") Barnes.

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-----Original Message-----
From: Marc Sacks [mailto:msacksg at GMAIL.COM] 
Sent: Monday, January 25, 2016 5:27 AM
Subject: Re: Jhoey

I wondered if Jhoey was a cousin to the baseball player Jhonny Peralta.

On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 5:23 AM, Margaret Lee < 0000006730deb3bf-dmarc-request at listserv.uga.edu> wrote:

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> The '80's African American hairdo was called the jheri curl.
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> Some time back I called attention to a cashier named "Jheri."
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> Now a puppet fabricator for the film _Anomalisa_ is listed as (the 
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> self-named)
> "Jhoey Monster."
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> A Google search shows that Mr. or Ms. Monster has other, similar 
> credits to his/her/their name.
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