David Nebenzahl wrote:
On 8/14/2008 9:24 PM DerbyDad03 spake thus:

On Aug 14, 11:02 pm, David Nebenzahl
wrote:
On 8/14/2008 5:14 PM mm spake thus:

(By the way, I corrected the spelling of the law firm, which they
had as "Cheetham". No self-respecting Englishmun would ever spell
that name that way.)

No you didn't correct it, you changed it to an incorrect spelling.
Follow this link, also offered by Mr. Wisnia earlier today.

http://en.wikivisual.com/index.php/C...am.2C_and_Howe

But it's still wrong, no matter how many people misspell it.

Pretty sure Johnny Carson, whose use of the joke predates all these
others by a long shot, spelled it "Cheatham". (They were the Tonight
Show's lawyers, dontcha know.)

Just to add to this, noticed a few minutes ago that there's a "Jay
Cheetham" spelled with "EE", not "EA" in the sound department at Acme
Shark (makes "Stargate Atlantis" for Sci-Fi Channel), and that led to
a bunch of other "Cheethams" in the movie industry
http://www.imdb.com/find?s=all&q=cheetham&x=19&y=8, more in fact
than there are "Cheathams" with the "EA"
http://www.imdb.com/find?s=all&q=cheatham&x=10&y=9, so it would seem
that either spelling is about equally likely for a randomly selected
lawyer.

Further, your Britishness, you might want to take a look at a map of
Manchester, England, which has a district named "Cheetham".

The name apparently goes back to Old English.

Read what it says in the 3rd floor window.

Hugh Louis Dewey

Hugh Louis Dewey is known to his friends under the bar as Hughie
Louie Dewey, of Donald Duck fame.

Ah, so.

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