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by strlen 4704 days ago
When I flew Lufthansa, I was granted an honorary Ph.D.

My official name is "Aleksandr Feinberg" -- it's transliterated from Cyrillics (hence the "ks") and Russian version of "Alexander" does not put an e between the d and r -- which Lufthansa decided to print on my boarding pass as Dr. Aleksan Feinberg
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marssaxman 4704 days ago
I recently moved to a house on a street named "Martin Luther King Junior Way East". The service rep must have bumped the tab key while I was signing up for DSL, because I now get mail addressed to "Mars Saxman Junior Way East".

The funny part is that the street name is still filled out in all of its glorious detail - but the capitalization is different, which tells me they did some kind of zip code based address sanitization.

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bowerbird 4703 days ago
so i'm reading this hilarious thread about names, and i come across a comment from _mars_saxman_...

my word, it's been long-time-no-see, mr. saxman!

-bowerbird intelligentleman

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