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To: E. Charters who wrote (862)	9/28/2002 5:53:51 PM
From: Toby Zidle	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1003

Interesting that you tie Albanians and Hungarians together. I have a very good Hungarian friend named Alban. Alban is a fairly ancient person. Old enough, in fact, that the emerging nation of Albania was named in his honor. Albania, therefore, is a subsidiary of Hungary (no longer 100%-owned however). Alban and I had spent many an afternoon on the cricket pitch, chirping out a two-person game. In our long conversations there, he always denied that his country's name was derived from their national passion, Hunger. If I knew anything about European history, he'd tell me, I'd appreciate that Europe had been attacked from the East by the Huns. Modern Hungary had been the fiefdom of Gary the Hun. Since the famed Hungarian inventor Graham Cracker Bel invented the telephone years before Guttenberg discovered the comma, the emporer Gary was listed on the top of every page of the phone directory as Hun Gary. With time his name became synomymous with the country itself. Let's hear it for the parents of civilization itself: Sweetiepie and Wel Hun.