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Thread #37033   Message #1112046
Posted By: GUEST,Big Jim from Jackson
08-Feb-04 - 04:07 PM
Thread Name: Leadbelly's Real Name
Subject: RE: Lead Belly's Real Name
Hey, Coyote Breath: We had a guy on my highschool basketball team whose name was Meisenheimer. On the backs of the team uniforms each player had his named spelled. Unfortunately, Meisenheimer was too long to fit, so they broke it into two parts, like this:
                   Meisen-
                   heimer
This led to his teammates calling him by the following:
                Meisen hyphen heimer
It was all said together, as though it was one word.