But I do have a friend whose actual name is Jefferson Beauregard.

There are times that I want to write a letter on certain subjects like this one, but you have to give name, address, and phone number, and they check. I have had calls before they will print my letters. One day, maybe I will try using an alias....all they can do it refuse to print it.

and didn't care that the writer wanted to remain anonymous. An honest editor will try to get the story out one way or another. we had an editor like that for a year. She quit printing the letters from the climate change hoaxers and Obama hating racists.

She did some good investigative reporting into special districts and how they spend money too. Really got people's attention and candidates for open seats started popping up all over the place. Amazing what a good local newspaper will do for the community. Unfortunately, she quit and the lousy paper is back to the same old shit.

As I recall his full name was Beauregard Jackson Pickett Burnside.

Love that movie.

many of whom originally thought the character was based on my mother - even my grandfather was said to have left the theater muttering "It's <Mom's name>."

Pity Mom never had Auntie Mame's money. -- I did give some thought to putting the quote in your picture on her headstone. (BTW the Broadway quote was "poor bastards are starving to death" - but the censors wouldn't let the word be used in the movie.)

That character's name is also interesting, with 3 Confederate generals for his first names followed by "Burnside."

For non-boring humans who pay no attention to this stuff: Ambrose Burnside was a spectacularly incompetent Union general in the Civil War. Who, unlike modern generals/politicians, at least admitted his incompetence - Burnside told Pres. Lincoln he was totally unfit to command the Army of the Potomac. Events proved him absolutely correct. His name lives on today in the word "sideburns."

Which reminds me - there's probably a good PhD thesis or something in the connection between fashion statements and military incompetence. IIRC, the two idiots most responsible for the infamous Charge of the Light Brigade were the Lords Cardigan and Raglan.

Especially ones like that!

You get so used to the bullshit that when someone actually tells it like it is it's like someone opening a window after a long stuffy winter indoors.

Thanks.