Re: Any IIs or IIIs on this list?

[Carrol Cox <cbcox@xxxxxxxxx>]

Sandwichman wrote:
>
> I was "Jr." until I realized it wasn't legally required. I always
> thought the characteristically right-wing name quirk was the first
> initial like "R. Emmett Tyrrell". Since I use my middle name I could
> be either a II or a J. Tom. But you all can call me Sandwichman.

Then there's J. Alfred Prufrock.

Carrol*

*Also a former "Jr." Apparently my grandmother didn't know that the
standard way of spelling the masculine form of the name was a double LL
as well as a double RR. On one list a poster is still spelling my name
"Carroll" after almost 10 years! It's a good example of the tendency
even of the bright and observant to see what they expect to see.