From mark at purdue.edu  Tue Dec  5 09:58:57 2006
From: mark at purdue.edu (Mark Senn)
Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2006 12:58:57 -0500
Subject: [Purdue-pm] tonight's technical meeting is cancelled
Message-ID: <28406.1165341537@pier.ecn.purdue.edu>

Purdue Perl Mongers,

Tonight's technical meeting is cancelled due to scheduling mix-ups.
Always check the web page at
    http;//pm.purdue.org
for the latest schedule.

The social meeting on December 19 is cancelled right now but may be
uncancelled depending on interest.  A final decision will be made
no later than December 10.

-mark

From mark at purdue.edu  Sun Dec 10 19:35:37 2006
From: mark at purdue.edu (Mark Senn)
Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2006 22:35:37 -0500
Subject: [Purdue-pm] Purdue Perl Mongers social meeting
Message-ID: <24617.1165808137@pier.ecn.purdue.edu>

They'll be a Purdue Perl Mongers social meeting
on Tuesday, December 12.  See
    http://pm.purdue.org/Wiki/wiki.pl/Meetings
for details.  -mark

From pmiguel at purdue.edu  Wed Dec 13 05:29:23 2006
From: pmiguel at purdue.edu (Phillip SanMiguel)
Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2006 08:29:23 -0500
Subject: [Purdue-pm] J(only) B(only) is urban legend
Message-ID: <45800033.1020702@purdue.edu>

/From snopes.com:

[Reader's Digest, 1958]/

My friend R.B. Jones doesn't have a first or middle name -- only the 
initials R.B. This unusual arrangement was never a problem until he went 
to work for a government agency. The government is not accustomed to 
initialed employees, so R.B. had a lot of explaining to do. On the 
official forms for the payroll and personnel departments, his name was 
carefully entered as R (Only) B (Only) Jones.

Sure enough, when R.B. got his pay check, it was made out to Ronly Bonly 
Jones.

------------------------------------------------------------------------

/[Cerf, 1959]/

There turned up in the Navy a recruit who had neither a first name nor a 
middle name: just Jones ? plus the initials R.B. The government took a 
dim view of this unusual nomenclature and entered his name officially as 
R (only) B (only) Jones. Sure enough, when RB's first pay check came 
rolling in, it was made out to Ronly Bonly Jones!

This name is likely apocryphal although many have claimed their fathers 
knew someone similarly afflicted (i.e., Jonly Bonly Stuart, Bonly Nonly 
Jones, Nonly Monly Jones, Gonly Bonly Jones).