Maybe as a result of making my beautiful brain work all day Saturday when it is more inclined to veg out, but I have fallen into a game of making up names for imaginary people today. In the elk of Teresa Green (trees are green)
Mister Mister
Finn Dorsal
Summer Beach
Randy Mann
Pepper Mills
Rose Thorne
Sonny Dea
Sue Mee
And your contribution to this lofty pursuit is?
Well, there’s always the classic Heywood Jablome…
Holly Wood?
Ivor Nitch
Mark Stain (I actually lived next door to him)
Ben Dover and his wife Eileen
I P Freely author of “Yellow River”
Doesn’t it just bring out the child in you?
he was never really hidden – he’s always waiting to play
You should sell this list to the producers of Bold and Beautiful FD…they already have some Thornes and Ridges and Hopes and Storms and Brookes and Peatbogs and Sulphurous Fumaroles (token Mexican character) in their cast list.
Peatbogs and Sulphurous Fumaroles are my favourite characters, as their unrelenting quest to overcome all their marriages to other people to be together always brings tears to my eyes.
Off the top of my head, I can only think of Eva Destruction, Phyllis Navidad (“feliz navidad”) and Dallas Raines & Johnny Mountain (2 local weathermen).
But a quick drag name check reveals some nice ones: Patty Melt, Anita Cocktail, Rosy Palm, Harry Beaver, Hedda Lettuce, Usta Bea Starr, Helen Damnation, Kanna Korn, Demanda Refund, Tilly Screams…
I think I met Helen Damnation once…
Years ago family friends owned a bar. Tom and Hortense were their given names. One afternoon a patron came into the bar, looked down at the end of the bar and said “Is that Hortense?” She replied, “No, I’m perfectly calm”. True story, that lady was a class act.
There is a dentist called Dr. Chew, my sister knows Dick Head. A flooring store where I grew up was called Linoleum Dicks. There is also a Blind Cleaner (how does he know if he’s got them clean?) and a Lutheran church that for a while was advertising Sun Worship. I think someone asked them to change the sign as they aren’t pagans. Gayle Storm was always a favorite. Some one in town here named their kid Rayce Carr. In the local phone directory there was Forney, Kate.