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Letter: Meet the Mr Men

Published 24 March 2001

From Antony Fussey

Having been shown by my children how to use a computer and surf the Net,
human vanity being what it is I straight away entered my surname—and up
came an article in New Scientist in which I appear in a list of names
showing “nominative determinism”, as a planning inspector
(Feedback, 20 May 2000).

Fussey is a common surname around the Humber, but it is only the braver ones
of us—or those who have never read the Mr Men books—who venture past
Goole.

In my last job I took over from a Mr Jolly and one of my daughters is
currently going out with a Mr Greedy.

Bristol

Issue no. 2283 published 24 March 2001

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