On 2005-05-08, Al. C <no_spam_ac3_takeout@adams-blake.nospam.com> wrote:
>
> Anyway, pen names are done for marketing reasons not for reasons of trying
> to hide from something. The serious novelist or college professor or
> politician might write pulp-fiction under an assumed name, but in the
> industry everyone knows whom he or she is. Or an actor with a difficult

The operative point is that the general public does not...hence the reason
for pen names. otherwise, pen names would be pretentious, you know, like
quoting a french saying in french then providing an english
translation...pretentious

> name takes a stage name. Do some research on who Marion Michael Morrison
> was.

Pen names have a long history in this country. The Federalist Papers were
orginally written under the pen name Publis, in place of Hamilton, Madison
and Jay. You might want to check out the following souces to expand you
knowledge as a publisher and writer

cato institute, they have a document on the use of pen names, I don't have
a URL.

also www.trussel.com/books/pseudo.htm

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>
>> As a businessman you SHOULD know
>> many financial institutions allow the use of alias accounts for trusted
>> customers.
>
> Name me one USA financial institution that allows this. I want to call them
> and verify it.

Call your branch manager or google for alias checking account, your choice.
Another case of you reading what you want...I never restricted the banks to
us banks and I'm not doing your research for you.

> everything to do with honesty and integrity. You're a sniper firing from
> the dark shadows. No one sees you, no one knows you. You wreck your havoc
> and have the belief that you can attain respectability via the
> rationalization that writers and actors use 'professional names." That may
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Never ever said this, show me. Show me now!!!! I never said a word about
actors, try to be more precise...journalism 101. You're pulling your usual
trick of distortion.


> work with some of the howling pack here, but it won't wash with me, and you
> know it.
>
> Even if you were rational; even if you were brilliant, you'd still be
> considered a coward in polite society.

"Polite society" is just another name for a group of people imposing a set
of standards on someone else...wait a minute, hell....that's what you're
accussing aols of....hey herd, we's polite society now!!! Hot damn!!!

ken