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Thread #57285   Message #900207
Posted By: Joe Offer
27-Feb-03 - 11:00 PM
Thread Name: BS: Women's names -- the virtues
Subject: RE: BS: Women's names -- the virtues
Good memory, David - both quotes come from I Corinthians 13.

There are some good pope names - there were twelve Piuses, and I don't know how many Innocents. There was a Sixtus V, too. One could wonder if the Urbans were urbane, and it the Clements showed any clemeny. You'll find the whole list here (click). The most interesting was Alexander VI, father of Lucretia Borgia. The one with his name in the most prominent places was Pius V, who built more public buildings than both Richard Dalys combined. His name is in huge letters above the front door of St. Peter's Basilica - I didn't see St. Pete's name on the building at all.

When I was doing security clearance investigations, there was a large family that had many members working at a nuclear facility. Each child was named after a different kind of booze: Jose Cuervo, Virginia Dare, Budweiser, etc.

-Joe Offer-