In a previous article, "John Gaquin" said:
The Federal mindset at work. When I joined the AF many years ago, many
forms had to be filled out upon arrival at basic training. "You WILL enter
one middle initial in the box labeled 'middle initial'!" Like a naive fool,
I asked -- what if I have 2 middle initials? (which I do). Repeat: "You
WILL enter one middle initial in the box labeled 'middle initial'!" Someone
else asked -- what if you have no middle initial? "If you have no middle
initial, enter the letters NMN in the box!"

When I enlisted, the guy filling out the form put "NMI" in the form, and
from then on all my official documents including my discharge notice say
"Paul NMI Tomblin". Stupid, stupid, stupid. Now that I'm older and more
cynical I think I should have made up middle names like "Norman Mailer
Issiah" to match the fake initials.


--
Paul Tomblin http://xcski.com/blogs/pt/
There are mushrooms that can survive weeks, months without air or food.
They just dry out and when water comes back, they wake up again. And call
the helldesk about their password expiring. -- after Jens Benecke and Tanuki