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If a page is intentionally left blank, should it contain writing which contradicts that statement? How blank is blank?

 

If something has no name or no official title, should it be called the no-name or untitled something or other?

 

The innominate bone is located in the pelvis. The innominate artery is in the chest. Innominate is Latin for “unnamed” Did the anatomist in charge of naming organs suddenly run out of ideas? Or did his contract expire?

 

Imagine the tree namers doing that. Well, over there’s a maple. That’s an oak, and over there’s a sycamore. And this tree is...just...well, I’m just calling it the unnamed tree. The innominate tree.

 

As Shakespeare might have said, an unnamed flower by any other designation would smell as sweet.

 

Imagine having a kid named Nameless. Would he or she be doomed to someday become the loose-lipped “top government official who shall remain nameless.”

 

The British/American band America recorded an enigmatic, but rhythmic and melodic song in the 1970s “A Horse with No Name” voted one of the top soft rock tunes of all time by people who do that kind of thing.

 

The horse with no name could also be referred to as the innominate horse, but was probably just called horse by the singer, who isn’t interested in being terribly specific: there were plants and birds and rocks and things…

 

Granted, the singer and composer, Dewey Bunnell, imagines being in the desert where “the heat was hot” but, luckily, he was able to remember his own name as there were no torturers around:

 

                           In the desert, you can remember your name
                          'Cause there ain't no one for to give you no pain

 

Bunnell and his wife have several animals at their Wisconsin home, including a horse named...wait for it --Noname.

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