Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site grendel.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!godot!harvard!seismo!umcp-cs!aplvax!grendel!avolio From: avolio@grendel.UUCP (Frederick M. Avolio) Newsgroups: net.net-people,net.misc Subject: Small World Experiences Message-ID: <396@grendel.UUCP> Date: Fri, 21-Dec-84 10:34:35 EST Article-I.D.: grendel.396 Posted: Fri Dec 21 10:34:35 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 23-Dec-84 00:19:19 EST Distribution: net Organization: DEC ULTRIX Applications Center, MD Lines: 27 Xref: watmath net.net-people:406 net.misc:7171 I was wondering how many others have had the experience of remeeting old friends, classmates, etc. by way of spotting a familiar name on a news article header or something like that. For example, this is pulled out of a note I received a few weeks ago... > Just read your remarks about Hemo the Magnificent in >net.movies. If you are the Fred Avolio [...] Anyway, you >mentioned The Restless Sea. I think I saw that one in Mr. >Cohen's Earth Science class. Is that where you saw it? > [...] > This is the second time I got to pull the stunt of >surprising someone from my past. On net.ai a few months >back, a friend from grad school submitted a gag entry [...] >I was sure it was the same guy, because he even mentioned >his dog by name. So I sent back a reply [...] I hadn't seem >him in about 5 years. You've got that beat, easy, without >even mentioning your dog. I had last seen this guy in June of 1973 at high school graduation. Found out he even works for the same company as I do now, although in different states (he in the state of confusion, I in disorientation). -- Fred Avolio, DEC -- Ultrix Applications Center 301/731-4100 x4227 UUCP: {seismo,decvax}!grendel!avolio ARPA: grendel!avolio@seismo.ARPA