Sorry. Olive joke.
--J
On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 7:29 AM, Christophe <xof_at_chanticleer.com> wrote:
> Nope, it's absolutely the same guy. (Unless you are making one of
> those Olive jokes I never get until it is explained to me. :) )
>
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> On Oct 24, 2008, at 2:57 AM, Joy McCann wrote:
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> > Are you sure you're not getting him mixed up with Nicolai Turetsky?
> > --J
> >
> > On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 10:30 PM, Christophe <xof_at_chanticleer.com<xof%40chanticleer.com>>
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> > wrote:
> >
> > > Nick was a good friend of mine while I was growing up in Malibu; I
> > > somehow never realized that he was Henry Nicholas of Broadcom fame/
> > > infamy.
> > >
> > > ("Strategy and Tactics" was a magazine published back then; it means
> > > hex-map based wargames.)
> > >
> > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_T._Nicholas_III
> > >
> > >
> > > On Oct 23, 2008, at 10:18 PM, barkofdelight wrote:
> > >
> > > > This year's California Proposition 9 ("number 9....number 9")
> > > > is also called "Marcy's law" after Marcy Nicholas, a woman
> > > > murdered in 1983. Her brother, an internet billionaire named
> > > > Henry, is a major financial contributor to the proposition.
> > > >
> > > > It turns out that both of them were Samohi students. Henry
> > > > graduated in '77 and Marcy in '80. Henry was in Forensics,
> > > > the Science fiction club and the "Strategy and tactics" club
> > > > (whatever that means). [1]
> > > >
> > > > Apparently Henry often went by the name "Nick Nicholas".
> > > >
> > > > Bark!
> > > >
> > > > [1] Source: '77 Nautilus
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
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