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That is the other way of doing it. Pick a common name so anyone sueing will lose.
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Exactly. The same reasoning that applies to the blurbs in books and on TV and films that "All the characters and events portrayed in this ________are fictitional, and any resembance to real people or incidents is purely coincidental."
Jan"As empathy spreads, civilization spreads. As empathy contracts, civilization contracts...as we're seeing now.
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I know why they have to do that, but I always get a laugh. As if there were a Real John Smith who was hit by a cosmic particle and as a consequence was turned into a three headed green monster who ate New York
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Sigh...yeah. Sometime, somewhere some judges didn't take the opportunity to tell some idiots that they were idiots and look where it got us.
Jan"As empathy spreads, civilization spreads. As empathy contracts, civilization contracts...as we're seeing now.
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I agree with a PLAIN name. I use a lot of odd names because they are memorable and luckily the names arent in the phone book
, but the one name I use in my story where there are probably a bizzillion (dont quote me on that one, there are a lot though) people by that name is Jeremiah Jones. I may consider changing in the future, but I doubt I will unless a publisher tells me that its too common, but I dont think they will.
Last edited by Laiden; 06-11-2005, 08:34 AM."It is said that the future is always born in pain. The history of war is the history of pain. If we are wise, what is born of that pain matures into the promise of a better world, because we learn that we can no longer afford the mistakes of the past." -- G'Kar in Babylon 5:"In the Beginning"Comment
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