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Mayor/Major--a suggestion for how to "hold onto" the difference:

"Y" = (Ypsilanti) = politics

Ypsilanti Mayor

From ArborWiki

City of Ypsilanti's Mayor is elected every four years. Ypsilanti has a council/manager form of government with a weak mayor. This means that the Mayor basically functions as an at-large Councilmember and presides over Council meetings, in contrast to "strong mayor" cities, like Detroit, where the Mayor's office has significant control over day-to-day governance of the city.

http://arborwiki.org/index.php/Ypsilanti_Mayor

(I'm thinking of the "Y" campaign--easy to remember the Y! Y = politics)

"J" = (Major Major Major Major) = military

Or:

Major Major Major Major

Major Major Major Major is a character in Joseph Heller's classic novel Catch-22.

He has the surname Major, and at birth his father gave him the first and middle names Major and Major, despite informing the mother that he had named the boy 'Caleb' in accordance with her wishes. She only discovers Major Major Major's real first and middle names when his birth certificate is required for him to enter kindergarten, and the shock leads to her death. The novel explains this was a joke on his father's part, and notes that it is not a particularly funny one.

Inducted during World War II, he is promoted from Private to Major while still in boot camp, without attending the Officers Training Corps or any advance warning at all. This is caused by an IBM machine with a "sense of humor almost as keen as his father's". A recurring joke in the book is that he bears a striking resemblance to Henry Fonda, even to the point of some people thinking that he is in fact Henry Fonda. In an interview, Heller states that he would imagine Major Major to either be played "by Henry Fonda or by somebody who looks nothing like Henry Fonda."

During the novel, it is revealed that he can never be promoted nor demoted, because the army has only one Major Major Major Major and Ex-PFC Wintergreen does not intend to let this change.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Major_Major_Major_Major

(Hope this is okay!)

Don't fight forces, use them R. Buckminster Fuller.

by rg (leopold dot lepster at google mail dot com) on Wed Feb 27th, 2008 at 05:32:07 AM EST
I know, mea culpa - I have been called out on that before by Metatone (or was it afew?), this was just a slip back to old habits...

*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.
by DoDo on Wed Feb 27th, 2008 at 06:25:11 AM EST
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