I wonder if someone actually has that name? Very possible. And it leaves me wondering what an inappropriate shepherd might have done to his flock in order for him not to be germane? And if he was German? And if he was stereotypically German? And if he was called Germaine Shepherd? And whether or not he he owns an Alsatian dog? Which is also German? In Germany? All of which might make him; a formerly germane Germanic German German German Shepherd owning shepherd, Germaine Shepherd.

[REPOST FROM 14 MARCH 2003]