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    3. THE TEN COMMANDMENTS FOR NAMES: 1). Thou shalt name your male children: Albert, James, John, Joseph, Josiah, Richard, Thomas, William (2) Thou shalt name your female children: Elizabeth, Mary, Martha, Maria,Sarah (3) Thou shalt leave NO trace of your female children. (4) Thou shalt, after naming your children from the above lists, call them by strange nicknames such as: Polly, Dolly, Sukey (5) Thou shalt NOT use any middle names on any legal documents or census reports, and only here necessary, you may use only initials on legal documents. (6) Thou shalt learn to sign all documents illegibly so that your surname can be spelled, or misspelled, in various ways: Hicks, Hickes, Hix, Hixe,Hucks, Kicks (7) Thou shalt leave NO cemetery records, or headstones with legible names. (8) Thou shalt leave NO family Bible with records of birth, marriages, or deaths. (9) Thou shalt ALWAYS flip thy name around. If born James Albert, thou must make all the rest of thy records in the names of Albert, AJ, JA, AL, Bert,Bart, or Alfred. (10) Thou must also flip thy parent's names when making reference to them, although "Unknown" or a blank line is an acceptable alternative.

    09/13/2005 10:44:01