family names are an old joke whose significance nobody remembers. I bet Washington Irving knew the real story behind Knickerbocker, but I also bet either it's not any of the ones he put in his History or it's all of them together plus a bigger one he wasn't telling.
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Occasionally, in the real world,
Date: 2010-06-07 02:31 am (UTC)