Stan, did you write The Da Vinci Code?

On Fri, 20 Jan 2012 00:34:33 -0500, Steve Morrison wrote:
>
> That fount of reliable knowledge, Wikipedia, thinks you did! At
> least, the references to the article on "J. R. R. Tolkien's
> Influences" claim that the FAQ of the Rings is by "Dan Brown":
>
> http://preview.tinyurl.com/88egyzj
>
> How, indeed, did the human race survive for even a single day
> without Wikipedia?

Thanks for telling me, I guess. Wouldn't it have taken less effort
just to correct it?

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Stan Brown wrote:
> On Fri, 20 Jan 2012 00:34:33 -0500, Steve Morrison wrote:
>> That fount of reliable knowledge, Wikipedia, thinks you did! At
>> least, the references to the article on "J. R. R. Tolkien's
>> Influences" claim that the FAQ of the Rings is by "Dan Brown":
>>
>> http://preview.tinyurl.com/88egyzj
>>
>> How, indeed, did the human race survive for even a single day
>> without Wikipedia?
>
> Thanks for telling me, I guess. Wouldn't it have taken less effort
> just to correct it?
>


Agh! I need to apologize. Of course that's what I should have done,
and /all/ I should have done. I suppose I just reacted in a silly
way to something that looked as if it came straight from "Damn you,
Autocorrect"; but I should have considered that not many people find
misspellings of their own names funny. I'm especially embarrassed
since you've always been very polite to me, ever since I started
posting here. So again, apologies, and I'll be sure to do nothing
like it in the future.
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Steve Morrison spoke these staves:
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> Stan Brown wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, 20 Jan 2012 00:34:33 -0500, Steve Morrison wrote:
>>>

The reference section of Wikipedia's "Tolkien's Influences" article
containing the

>>> claim that the FAQ of the Rings is by "Dan Brown":
[...]
>>
>> Thanks for telling me, I guess. Wouldn't it have taken less
>> effort just to correct it?
>
> Agh! I need to apologize. Of course that's what I should have
> done, and /all/ I should have done.

Well, it may be that I have an unpleasant sense of humour, but I
think it's good enough amusement to share -- honestly, it /is/, IMO,
one of these mistakes that are worth a smile

I'll leave it to you to figure whether it would have been better to
have been doing so with the note that it had been corrected and a
reference to the old version with the mistake:
http://preview.tinyurl.com/6m8k6ou (it is of course fixed now, so
this links to the last version containing the mistake -- not that it
is much to look at, of course, since Steve has already explained the
mistake)

> but I should have considered that not many people find misspellings
> of their own names funny.

My own surname, Forchhammer, is rather prone to misunderstandings --
in Danish it is pronounced in exactly the same way as the word for
atrium (e.g. in the heart), /forkammer/, and of course there's the
fork-hammer thing and several others. My father was a school teacher
until his death, and for many years he would, whenever a new class
came with their first attempt (deliberate or accidental), put some
money on the table with the promise to pay them to anyone who could
come up with a new version. In more than thirty years of teaching, he
had to pay up /twice/ (but the class had a fun lesson and he earned
some respect by also acknowledging the coarser jokes with a straight
face).

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++?????++ Out of Cheese Error. Redo From Start.
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On 23 Jan., 06:25, Steve Morrison wrote:
> Stan Brown wrote:
> > On Fri, 20 Jan 2012 00:34:33 -0500, Steve Morrison wrote:
> >> That fount of reliable knowledge, Wikipedia, thinks you did! At
> >> least, the references to the article on "J. R. R. Tolkien's
> >> Influences" claim that the FAQ of the Rings is by "Dan Brown":
>
> >>http://preview.tinyurl.com/88egyzj
>
> >> How, indeed, did the human race survive for even a single day
> >> without Wikipedia?
>
> > Thanks for telling me, I guess.  Wouldn't it have taken less effort
> > just to correct it?
>
> Agh! I need to apologize. Of course that's what I should have done,
> and /all/ I should have done. I suppose I just reacted in a silly
> way to something that looked as if it came straight from "Damn you,
> Autocorrect"; but I should have considered that not many people find
> misspellings of their own names funny. I'm especially embarrassed
> since you've always been very polite to me, ever since I started
> posting here. So again, apologies, and I'll be sure to do nothing
> like it in the future.

Okay, guys. I offer my eternal friendship and admiration to anyone who
keeps changing this name back to Dan from various anonymous IPs. Or
keeps changing it to Ban, Han, Span, Man, Pan, Fan, Tan...

Noel

I'm far too cowardly to do it myself.
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"Troels Forchhammer" wrote in message

> Well, it may be that I have an unpleasant sense of humour, but I
> think it's good enough amusement to share -- honestly, it /is/, IMO,
> one of these mistakes that are worth a smile

That was my take too.
He could have just fixed it - but that would have ruined the joke.

-W
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Clams Canino wrote:
> "Troels Forchhammer" wrote in message
>
>> Well, it may be that I have an unpleasant sense of humour, but I
>> think it's good enough amusement to share -- honestly, it /is/, IMO,
>> one of these mistakes that are worth a smile
>
> That was my take too.
> He could have just fixed it - but that would have ruined the joke.
>
> -W
>

Maybe I should say that it wasn't the "rhyming names" error that I
thought was funny -- it was my first impression that the mighty
Wikipedia had finally admitted to getting its research from Dan
Brown novels! And I nearly believed it, before I took a closer look
and realized what source the article really meant to cite.
That is a truly self-satirizing mistake.
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On Mon, 23 Jan 2012 00:25:05 -0500, Steve Morrison wrote:
>
> Stan Brown wrote:
> > On Fri, 20 Jan 2012 00:34:33 -0500, Steve Morrison wrote:
> >> That fount of reliable knowledge, Wikipedia, thinks you did! At
> >> least, the references to the article on "J. R. R. Tolkien's
> >> Influences" claim that the FAQ of the Rings is by "Dan Brown":
> >>
> >> http://preview.tinyurl.com/88egyzj
> >>
> >> How, indeed, did the human race survive for even a single day
> >> without Wikipedia?
> >
> > Thanks for telling me, I guess. Wouldn't it have taken less effort
> > just to correct it?
> >
>
>
> Agh! I need to apologize. Of course that's what I should have done,
> and /all/ I should have done. I suppose I just reacted in a silly
> way to something that looked as if it came straight from "Damn you,
> Autocorrect"; but I should have considered that not many people find
> misspellings of their own names funny. I'm especially embarrassed
> since you've always been very polite to me, ever since I started
> posting here. So again, apologies, and I'll be sure to do nothing
> like it in the future.

Hi, Steve, and thanks for the reply. No need to grovel.

I should have mentioned, I did correct it (until somebody breaks it
again), and it wasn't that big a deal.

What I don't understand is why someone would mistake Stan as Dan in
*writing*. I get it a lot over the telephone, but this is the first
time I can remember of some (unknown) person looking at "Stan" and
writing "Dan".

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Tolkien letters FAQ:
http://mysite.verizon.net/aznirb/mtr/lettersfaq.html
FAQ of the Rings: http://oakroadsystems.com/genl/ringfaq.htm
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"Stan Brown" wrote in message

> What I don't understand is why someone would mistake Stan as Dan in
> *writing*. I get it a lot over the telephone, but this is the first
> time I can remember of some (unknown) person looking at "Stan" and
> writing "Dan".

See what Steve M. just posted.
I *think* they were quoting you referencing Dan, but failed to see that it was second hand.

-W
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On Mon, 23 Jan 2012 22:36:11 -0500, Clams Canino wrote:
>
> "Stan Brown" wrote in message
>
> > What I don't understand is why someone would mistake Stan as Dan in
> > *writing*. I get it a lot over the telephone, but this is the first
> > time I can remember of some (unknown) person looking at "Stan" and
> > writing "Dan".
>
> See what Steve M. just posted.
> I *think* they were quoting you referencing Dan, but failed to see that it was second hand.

That would be rather difficult, since I don't reference Dan Brown
anywhere.

--
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http://OakRoadSystems.com
Tolkien FAQs: http://Tolkien.slimy.com (Steuard Jensen's site)
Tolkien letters FAQ:
http://mysite.verizon.net/aznirb/mtr/lettersfaq.html
FAQ of the Rings: http://oakroadsystems.com/genl/ringfaq.htm
Encyclopedia of Arda: http://www.glyphweb.com/arda/default.htm
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"Stan Brown" wrote in message

> > I *think* they were quoting you referencing Dan, but failed to see that it was second hand.
>
> That would be rather difficult, since I don't reference Dan Brown
> anywhere.

You're right.
Then it must just have been a "brain fart" as the fellow was typing. (Just like you get over the phone, only using fingers.

-W (it was still funny none the less)
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Stan Brown spoke these staves:
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> On Mon, 23 Jan 2012 22:36:11 -0500, Clams Canino wrote:
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<snippo>

>> I *think* they were quoting you referencing Dan, but failed to
>> see that it was second hand.
>
> That would be rather difficult, since I don't reference Dan Brown
> anywhere.

*Obviously* it's the other way around -- they're quoting this Dan
person who has referenced Stan's work . . .

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