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Posted By: Kevin Cummings

Leon:

I'm not sure the Pete/Mark thread is a great example. People go by nicknames all the time and it has nothing to do with someone intentionally trying to hide their true identity. My father's given name was William, but he went by Ray (his middle name) his whole life because when he was growing up he had an older cousin with the same first name. Most of his friends didn't even know his real first name. Now if he or Mark had told people he was "John Smith" that would be another story entirely.

Bill:

Loved the reference to Richard Hurtz. I used to use that one myself in high school (although I spelled it Richard Hertz). There was just something thrilling about starting off a sentence to one of my Irish Christian Brother teachers, "Well, my good friend Dick Hertz...."

Kevin