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Pastimes : Don't Ask Rambi
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To: Ilaine who wrote (47287)2/22/2000 4:00:00 PM
From: Gauguin  Read Replies (3) of 71178
 
Ralph Waldo Emerson was not a sensible person. You know how I know? Because there aren't any other Waldos around. Can you think of any? Everyone else who wanted to write, or become famous, a person of letters or an actor or scientist or anybody ~ everyone else was talked out of using "Waldo."

And Ralph, had the option of simply losing it as his middle name,.....and he didn't do it.

"Ralph Emerson."

But no.

His Publisher at Doubleday (then just Day): "We need to talk, Ralph."

"No. Huh-uh. Wal-doh. Waldo Waldo Waldo! Ralph Waldo Emerson."

I don't think his mother even yelled that.

"RALPH WALDO!!"

Say what?

I don't like that. It's ugly. Coming out from somebody's screen door? Sheesh.
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