From: b.scott@csuohio.edu

On Sun, 26 Oct 2014 00:53:11 -0700 (PDT), William Vetter
 wrote in

in rec.arts.sf.composition:

> On Sunday, October 26, 2014 2:10:52 AM UTC-4, Brian M. Scott wrote:

>> On Sat, 25 Oct 2014 22:58:12 -0700 (PDT), William Vetter
>>  wrote in
>> 
>> in rec.arts.sf.composition:

>>> On Sunday, October 26, 2014 12:53:45 AM UTC-4, Brian M. Scott wrote:
>>> The other is a

>>>> former student who had black hair and the funniest name I
>>>> ever encountered in a class: Ivan Ho.

>>> It's not so unusual.  A lot of Asians give their children first
>>> names of Catholic saints.  I've met a couple of Chinese Stanislauses.

>> I don't know whether this particular combination of forename
>> and surname is unusual or not, but it's very funny, and NOT
>> because it's Russo-Chinese.  Think about it.

> You telling me it's _Ivanhoe_,

Of course.

> or "I wanna whore"?

More than a bit of a stretch, and not especially funny.

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Brian
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