Thursday, June 23, 2005

What's in a name?

There's an entertaining thread on the Mark Radcliffe show at the moment. He's playing that game that we've all done where you create a name from certain elements, and the name is then your porn star name or somesuch. My porn star name (my first pet plus the street name of my first address) is pretty good - Sandy Belding - but 'er indoors has a perfect one: Mitzi Nansen. On the Radcliffe show they've invented your West Indian cricketer name, which is the surname of the US president in the year of your birth plus the last seaside town you visited. This would yield Eisenhower St Annes in my case, but St Annes is a cheat because I live there, so I'm going for Eisenhower Formby, a tricky left arm spinner methinks. Someone on the show had Nixon Whitby, which is perfect - a classic fast bowler name - and there are going to be lots of youngsters who could have names like Clinton Scarborough and Reagan Cromer. Radcliffe also suggested your Star Wars name, which would be the first car you owned followed by the name of any medication you're on, which yields not much in my case as I'm not on medication - yet - but I could cheat and go for Austin Optrex. I can't compete, however with the fabulous example on the show - Wartburg Anusol!

6 comments:

Mia said...

I'm very fond of my porn name: Weenie Willows. I might use it to open a bank account...

Rob said...

Weenie Willows... that's great. There was more on this last night in conversation with Brian Eno, whose full name is apparently Brian Peter St John Le Baptiste de la Salle Eno... so he doesn't need any made up monikers.

Nogbad said...

My pron name is a bit drab, Andy Reynell, but I have high hopes for the next Star Wars - Eisenhower Nizatidine :-)

Rob said...

Nigel - this means you had a pet called Andy...
There are some names - and I think Andy is one of them - that just don't work with animals. We used to be much amused at hearing a neighbour calling her cat in years ago - "Graham! Graham!"

Rob said...

...and also, NG, you need a car, not a president for your Star Wars name. I think Daewoo and Hyundai work well

Nogbad said...

Oh damn! Just shows how rubbish I am at following simple instructions. Star Wars becomes Citroen Nizatidine (which still has a ring to it) and you can't blame me for the dog's name - it was my parent's choice :-)