BALTIMORE — The tattered old black catcher's mitt that R. A. Dickey carries around with him has his last name on it, but it has been passed around from catcher to catcher, from Joe Mauer in Minnesota to Josh Thole in Buffalo to Henry Blanco and Rod Barajas with the Mets.
INDIANAPOLIS — Manti Te'o did double takes in the grocery store to see if people were staring at him, and it troubled him that his last name had been splashed everywhere.
Perhaps if the sergeant's last name had been something else, more people might know the truth.
Then, as now, the Democratic candidate was an incumbent vice president whose Republican opponent's last name had been on the ballot -- and lost -- eight years before.
The correct names in order (first name, last name) have been shown in the front matter of the paper.
Apparently, it has been touched to the point that Ang Galjen Sherpa (who, like most Sherpas, uses Sherpa as his last name) has been organizing a memorial service for Sir Edmund to be held on Jan . 20at an as-of-yet undecided location.
It wasn't that it was so thick, but it was so long his last name should have been Longstockings.
Jason, who prefers to keep his last name private, has been injecting amphetamines in the ACT and NSW for the last 25 years.
Some last names may have been backhanded insults, such as giving the surname "Power" to someone who was poor, as opposed to being a forceful person.
The census relies mostly on self-identification, which seems fitting since America itself is named for an Italian explorer who became a Spanish citizen, whose last name has been largely forgotten and whose given name was, well, Americanized.
