Herb (Was Re: Harry and Hairy - The Difference.)

[Carol]

 Goddlefrood:
> 
> In the same vein, why call anyone Herb at all?

Carol:
Oh, there are worse names. :-) Rupert, for example. I could see an
American history buff naming a son Herbert (Herb for short) after
Herbert Hoover, the thirty-first President of the U.S. And, of course,
the Herberts were an influential family in English history.

Carol, who once embarrassed herself by saying out loud in a literature
class that George Herbert was a one-trick poet