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5 Sep 2024 05:22:08 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Random name statistics  
From: Orchid XP v8
Date: 18 Nov 2009 15:17:05
Message: <4b045641$1@news.povray.org>
>> Which is odd really, considering that there are millions of people
>> called Gemma (I've personally met at least a dozen of them), and nobody
>> in history has ever been named Delilah (except in that song...)
> 
> You *always* do that. Generalize things you have seen with "that's how the 
> entire world is".
> 
> If you've never seen X, then X doesn't exist anywhere in the world. Right.

I was actually exaggerating slightly. I didn't mean that literally 
nobody in the history of the Earth has been called Delilah, merely that 
it's feakishly rare to have such a name.

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