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johno ([personal profile] johno) wrote2002-01-21 05:08 pm

More quiz silliness

http://theweekly.co.uk/4801/your_name_here/

Literal meaning
"The big tree next to the other equally sized tree."

History
Yawped by a minor noble choking on a jammed branch, and taken up by the Guild of Branch-Jamming Choke-Killers exactly three hundred years ago next week, the name John was originally used indulgently to refer to licensed manufacturers of swanee-whistles, the endlessly amusing noise-making device, before falling down a flight of stone steps.