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paineinthearse Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-06-05 07:40 AM
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A Boy Named Sue Myrick?
A Boy Named Sue Myrick?
By Mary Ann Akers
Roll Call Staff
October 6, 2005

Maybe they’re just a bunch of Johnny Cash fans over at the Government Printing Office. Or maybe they thought Rep. Walter Jones Jr. (R-N.C.) would grow up tougher with a name like Sue, just as the story goes in Cash’s famous song, “A Boy Named Sue.” Whatever the reason, the problem remains: There’s a boy named Sue in the official Congressional Pictorial Directory for the 109th Congress, thanks to a printing mistake by the GPO.

more at http://www.rollcall.com/pub/51_33/hoh/10773-1.html

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TalkingDog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-06-05 08:24 AM
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1. Maybe her Amway contacts got it confused....n/t
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LizMoonstar Donating Member (392 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-06-05 08:54 AM
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2. oh man the GPO
in my work, i proof my company's products to stuff the GPO puts out and i swear they wouldn't know what a proofreader or copy editor was if one came up and shat on their presses.
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