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i just fell down the rabbit hole surrounding [BELOVED CHILDREN'S BOOK CHARACTER REDACTED FOR YOUR SAFETY]'s "actual" name and gender
i had not known there was a rabbit hole there
there is and it is "there's where i'm a viking" level, i mean like it's brain poison bad, like it has elicited dr bronner levels of crazy in some of these people
stay well clear, kids, old aunt rezy is gonna put a sign and a fence next to this one...
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@001zlnv @zebratron2084 I was about to ask if this character was someone a radio telescope project was named for, but now I'm distracted by 'the whole RE Olds thing'?
(I'm a Lansing, Michigan, resident and live just off the Olds Highway that they demolished his mansion to build. The Interstate system had no concept of 'too on-the-nose'.)
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Shortening a really awesome name to a less awesome one!
You're the one who had told me about the R being for Ransom
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@001zlnv @zebratron2084 Oh, OK! I was wondering if it might circle how his second car company was called Reo, pronounced like the Brazil city, so R-E-O Speedwagon messed that up.
In other awesome names: Paul Reuter, founder of Reuters, was born Israel Beer Josaphat and that's just a name nobody would have the courage to make up.
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... and again that's a really cool name!
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@zebratron2084
This only makes us more curious, ya know...
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@zebratron2084
I disregard my own safety, so who is it? And are we talking like mystic true name kind of deal, or dead name or like the whole RE Olds thing?