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What’s in a name? That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet.”

Marion Michael Morrison just doesn’t have the same ring as John Wayne. Names are important. They have influence. Take for example, the strength conveyed when the Rock of Gibralter and the Hudson River came together to create Rock Hudson. Here are a few more interesting facts about names:

• “Me, Tarzan. You, Jane. . .Parker.” Yes, that was the vine swinger’s partner’s last name.

• One of the most recognizable dolls on the planet is named Barbie, Barbie Roberts to be exact and her boyfriend’s name – Ken Carson.

• The Skipper kept his professional distance from Gilligan never once calling him by his first name, Willy.

• He hid his identity behind a mask, but I’ll bet Tonto knew the Lone Ranger’s real name was John Reid.

• The next time you are eating a Granny Smith apple, you can thank Maria Ann Smith for sharing her name with the fruit.

• The L.L. of L.L. Bean stands for Leon Leonwood.

• Surveyor Col. Sir George Everest lent his name to the highest peak in the world.

• Hector Boiardi changed the spelling of his name on his products to Chef Boyardee because no one could pronounce his name.

• Ian Fleming borrowed the name of his most famous character, James Bond, from an ornithologist from Philadelphia. While living in Jamaica and working on his first novel about the British spy, Fleming picked up Birds of West India by the real Bond. He chose the name because it was brief, unromantic and masculine.

• The chef on the Cream of Wheat box goes by the moniker of Rastus.

• Bingo was the name-O of the Cracker Jack dog. The Taco Bell dog answers to Gidget.

• The name of the cigarette company’s symbol is Joe Camel.

• Charles Pillsbury started out milling flour with his uncle. In their first year of business, he made $6,000 in profit. He took the money and started C.A. Pillsbury and Company in 1872. The Pillsbury Doughboy, proper name Poppin’ Fresh, came along in 1965.

• According to family legend, Wizard of Oz creator Frank Baum came up with the name for his fictitious land after looking at a filing cabinet with a drawer labeled O-Z.

• Teddy Roosevelt was the first to use the term White House. He had it printed on his stationery in 1901.

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This is only humor. I HOPE its not true.

KILLER BISCUITS WANTED FOR ATTEMPTED MURDER (the actual AP headline)

Linda Burnett, 23, a resident of San Diego, was visiting her in-laws and while there went to a nearby supermarket to pick up some groceries.
Several people noticed her sitting in her car with the windows rolled up and with her eyes closed, with both hands behind the back of her head.

One customer who had been at the store for a while became concerned and walked over to the car. He noticed that
Linda’s eyes were now open, and she looked very strange. He asked her if she was okay, and Linda replied that she’d been shot in the back of the head, and had been holding her brains in for over an hour.

The man called the paramedics, who broke into the car because the doors were locked and Linda refused to remove her hands from her head. When they finally got in, they found that Linda had a wad of bread dough on the back of her head.

A Pillsbury biscuit canister had exploded from the heat, making a loud noise that sounded like a gunshot, and the wad of dough hit her in the back of her head.

When she reached back to find out what it was, she felt the dough and thought it was her brains. She initially
passed out, but quickly recovered and tried to hold her brains in for over an hour until someone noticed and came to her aid.