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On Sun 12 Feb 2006 01:54:40p, Thus Spake Zarathustra, or was it jmcquown?

> sf wrote:
>> On 11 Feb 2006 22:11:03 -0600, Bob Terwilliger wrote:
>>
>>> aem wrote about making restaurant reservations:
>>>
>>> > I usually pick a name that's been in the news and add "doctor."
>>>
>>> I've never appended "doctor," but once I made a reservation as
>>> "Senator Marcus Bibulus."
>>> Anybody else do this?
>>>

>> Not me. Never crossed my mind either.
>> I can get a reservation w/o all the hoopla

>
> Exactly. What difference does it make if the reservation is in your own
> name? It's not like you gave them your SSN or a credit card number.
> It's just a reservation. My last name is difficult to pronounce so I
> either know when they call it out and they're stumbling over "Mc-Mc-Mc"
> they mean me, or I just make the reservation in the name of Jill.


I totally agree. Never crossed my mind to do so either.


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