Re: Thank You's

Michael Lorrey (retroman@tpk.net)
Wed, 16 Jul 1997 18:22:21 -0400


Lee Daniel Crocker wrote:
>
> > This is going out to all those who contributed to the Free-Market
> > Economics Thread. I want to thank Eric Watt Forste, Michael Lorrey,
> > Guru George, John Clark, Max More, YakWax, Mark Grant, Daniel Lee
> > Crocker,...
>
> Just a curious observation: what is it about the nature of human minds
> that makes them constantly get my name wrong (even Max called me
> "Daniel" once), yet they seem to have less problem with Eric's? Not
> that it bothers me at all; you can call me Fred for all I care, but it
> is an interesting phenomenon.
>

I think its cause Daniel is a longer word than Lee, so people kinda
subconciously associate the short word with an initial or middle name.

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