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    The Needling And The Damage Not Done
    by Michelle Orange
  • February 15, 2001
    In Lineup Form, Possible Nicknames for Semi-Popular Former and Present-Day Major League Baseball Players Using Only The Full Names of Former Catchers Who Themselves Lacked Nicknames
    by JT Dobbs
  • February 2, 2001
    What We’d All Be Talking About If Important Things Had Different Names
    by Daniel Arizona and F. Tanner Colby
  • December 28, 2000
    Actual Names of Hamsters Living in Seattle’s Queen Anne Neighborhood (in Reference to Previous Lists by Diana Fischer)
    by Adam Voith
  • November 29, 2000
    Names of People I Know That Also Form Grammatically Correct Sentences
    by Cornelia Ann Bailey
  • November 15, 2000
    Words That Would Make Nice Names for Babies, If It Weren’t For Their Unsuitable Meanings
    by Stephany Aulenback
  • October 31, 2000
    “The doggie.com Domain Name Has Been Registered”: Register.com’s Proposed Alternate Domain Names
    by Matthew Summers-Sparks
  • October 10, 2000
    Terrible Names for Hair Salons
    by John Moe
  • September 25, 2000
    Suggested Band Names
    by John Kenyon
  • September 25, 2000
    Authors Whose Names You Can Say While Chewing Gum
    by Paul Bacon
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