List,
Interesting thread, which I will try to slip something LSR related into.
My name, translated from German, goes along with the family name/occupation
thing. Rothfuss = red feet. An appropriate name for a family of tanners.
I don't stomp around on animal hides like my ancestors did, but at Maxton I
do wear the reddest red driving shoes I could find.
Chuck Rothfuss
ECTA
Pole Cat Hollow, NC
At 07:30 PM 1/16/2001 EST, you wrote:
>In a message dated 1/16/01 4:13:48 PM Eastern Standard Time,
>landspeedracer@email.msn.com writes:
>
><< Also in an earlier era many people were named by the job they did.
>Carpenter
> being an obvious example. 'Beckett' is the term for a special knot tied on
> those old sailing ships. Guess what my ancestors used to do?
> >>
>Is there a carpenter installing knotty pine joke in there somewhere?
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