From owner-cvs-src@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 1 01:35:53 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: cvs-src@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD28516A4CE; Tue, 1 Jun 2004 01:35:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp.des.no (flood.des.no [217.116.83.31]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8663D43D1D; Tue, 1 Jun 2004 01:35:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from des@des.no) Received: by smtp.des.no (Pony Express, from userid 666) id 35780530C; Tue, 1 Jun 2004 10:35:50 +0200 (CEST) Received: from dwp.des.no (des.no [80.203.228.37]) by smtp.des.no (Pony Express) with ESMTP id CEEB45309; Tue, 1 Jun 2004 10:35:42 +0200 (CEST) Received: by dwp.des.no (Postfix, from userid 2602) id 89C3433CAA; Tue, 1 Jun 2004 10:35:42 +0200 (CEST) To: Doug Barton References: <200406010432.i514WC2k053069@repoman.freebsd.org> <40BC34AB.8000409@DougBarton.net> From: des@des.no (=?iso-8859-1?q?Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav?=) Date: Tue, 01 Jun 2004 10:35:42 +0200 In-Reply-To: <40BC34AB.8000409@DougBarton.net> (Doug Barton's message of "Tue, 01 Jun 2004 00:47:55 -0700") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) Emacs/21.3 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on flood.des.no X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL autolearn=no version=2.63 cc: cvs-src@FreeBSD.org cc: src-committers@FreeBSD.org cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/games/fortune/datfiles fortunes fortunes2 X-BeenThere: cvs-src@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: CVS commit messages for the src tree List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 01 Jun 2004 08:35:53 -0000 Doug Barton writes: > Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav wrote: > > Wrong. His middle name is S because his parents wanted to honor both > > his grandfathers (whose first names both began with S) without > > favoring one over the other. > I've also heard that this was the cover story that his handlers invented > to explain why he added the "middle initial." Either way, if his middle > name IS "S," then it's not an initial. Aren't conspiracy theories great? But he already spelled his name that way in 1919, as evidenced by his wedding invitations - unless those are fabrications? The campaign posters from when he ran for county judge in 1921 must also be fabrications. http://www.trumanlibrary.org/lifetimes/family.htm http://www.trumanlibrary.org/lifetimes/county.htm > As the page you quoted says, it's done both ways (and was by Truman as > well). Nice way of twisting it to your advantage - what that page does say is that journalists started writing it without a period in the 1960s, and that the Chicago Manual of Style, the US Government Printing Office Style Manual and others all agree that there should be a period. Sounds pretty unanimous to me. > (BTW, the Truman library has a vested interest in making sure that he > continues to look statesmanlike, so I don't consider them a neutral > source of information.) :) They were probably the ones on the grassy knoll, as well. The bastards! DES --=20 Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav - des@des.no