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- From: twain@milton.u.washington.edu (Barbara Hlavin)
- Subject: Re: Stark Naked
- Message-ID: <1992Dec24.180254.14676@u.washington.edu>
- Keywords: I've got Bright's Disease and he's got mine!
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- Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
- References: <1992Dec24.112458.22930@ms.uky.edu>
- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 18:02:54 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec24.112458.22930@ms.uky.edu> fehr@ms.uky.edu (Jeff Davis) writes:
- >Miriam Nadel writes:
- >>Francis Muir writes:
- >>>Click & Clack, the Tappet Bros., of Car Talk have a list of these names
- >>>which grows increasingly excruciating as the weeks go by. Their book,
- >>>*CAR TALK*, may include a list.
- >>
- >>It doesn't - the book is much more to the point than the show.
- >>
- >>But Herb Caen's column in the San Francisco Chronicle used to be full of
- >>real-life examples and may well still be. I believe he referred to them
- >>as "namephreaks."
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- Local Seattle columnist Jean Godden refers to those as aptonyms.
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- When I was a child, our cat's veterinary firm was Pickney and Peckinpaw.
- Returning from a fishing holiday in Westport, where my papa had caught
- enough salmon to provide us with salmon loaf weekly throughout the long
- dreary winter, we went to reclaim our cat only to be told there was no
- boarder under the name Hlavin.
-
- Much consternation. They eventually located Topsy under my father's
- middle initial, O (for Oscar), transforming his good Czech name into
- a weirdly Celtic O'Hlavin. No, sirs; not related to the Chicago
- O'Learys.
-
- >
- >I love both Car Talk and the list of names. I read _The Vale of Laughter_
- >(Peter DeVries) at a too impressionable age. Finding a real life
- >R.U. Upjohn has been a quest for me like finding the last surviving
- >ivorybill woodpecker.
-
- One of my favorite puns is from a DeVries book: leaving a party,
- the suburban householder says to his hostess that he regrets departing
- so early, but "I have premises to keep, and miles to mow before I
- sleep."
-
- --Barbara
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