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  1. 1st February 2009, 10:17 PM #1
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    I'm putting this in the Jokes section, because it's less serious than it appears.

    "The report of my death was an exaggeration." - Mark Twain, June 1897
    ( http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=191570 )

    "The reports of my deaths were also exaggerations." - Joe Greiner, February 2009
    ( http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=653052 )
    ( http://www.odmp.org/officer/5728-pol...joseph-greiner )

    With assistance of Google.

    I'm reasonably certain that I'm not related to either of them, except perhaps for a cross-over eons ago. In 1998, I visited Regensburg, Germany, whence my great-grandfather emigrated to America around 1860. I found over 50 listings of the surname in the telephone book. The total population of Regensburg is about 140,000.

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    No good trying to hide it Herr Greiner, you sound just like ... Sgt. Schultz.

    Only joking

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    The State of NSW once had a Premier her Joe Nic Griener he was always characterized as Kermit the Frog by cartoonists

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    Yeah, I found him a while back too, Ray. It's amazed me how many copies there are of such a strange name. It would make some sense if my name was "John Smith" or something more common.

    Good to see you at least part way out of the woods.

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