What is miscellany? Merriam Webster defines it as a mixture of various things.

What's in a name?

Check out NameVoyager. You can see the rise (and fall) of the popularity of various first names over time, based on Social Security data. Jennifer was pretty rare in the 1940s.

Other Jennifers, Musser and Metz:

• Jennifer Metz, the artist, in the Netherlands. Not me.
• Jennifer Metz at the University of Iowa. Also not me.
• Jennifer Musser, a CPA in Florida. Not me either.

Things that are Musser:

• Musser is number 3584 in the Social Security Surname popularity rank.
• Musser Forests - Get yourself a Christmas tree while in western Penna.
• Musser.com Been around for quite some time on the web!
• Grier Musser Museum of Victorian Los Angeles.
• Ludwig Musser Drums and Musser Mallets - Think they go to 11?
• The Betty Musser Collection at the University of Utah
• Musserism
• Mussers Markets of Lancaster

Things that are Metz:

• Metz is number 1720 in the Social Security Surname popularity rank.
• The entry for Metz in Wikipedia
• Metz, France. The closest I've been is Frankfurt.
• University of Metz (English page about study abroad programs for Americans)
• Football Club de Metz
• Metz Electronics "always first class" with nice flat panel TVs!
• Metz Fly Tying. Something involved with fly fishing.
• Metz Bicycle Museum in Freehold, N.J.
• What About.com thinks the name Metz means. (Musser isn't listed.)

Things that are Musser-Metz:

• Social Security's surname popularity rank returns this:

  Musser-Metz, as a surname, does not exist in this database, because it is not among the top 55,000 most common names in the US.

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