real life names

[Zachary Haberer]

We've heard plenty about Pynchon's naming-- his various beasts
skittering about his various Edens sporting quite a finery of nom
de plummage (Oedipa Maas, Geli Tripping, Lyle Bland...).  Under
this influence then I've been paying attention to the real-life
names I come across, with occasionaly similar-spirited results

Examples:

Richard W. Vague,
President "First USA Bank" (from a credit card solicitation).

J. Mark Mobius, 
Portfolio Manager of a newly-established investment fund for 
Russian securities

the Vladivostok International Stock Exchange, 
whose English acronym is somewhat interesting

I suppose one could go through a phone book to come up with 
more, but the way these just kinda fell across my path made them 
more interesting.

Zachary Haberer                                         
Ian Freed Consulting/Moscow                              
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