Grrl Power #346 – Naming wrongs
I wanted to show Sydney’s immediate reaction once she got past the foaming stage, but the way the dialog flowed we’ll have to wait to the next page to see that. (I am amused by the idea that she has a foaming stage that she regularly exhibits.) Obviously Sydney is easily distracted, but that’s not news to anyone by now.
Shrapnell is a real last name, as is Slaughter, Vetura, Blitzer, Ironside, Savage, Hazard, Fightmaster (not a joke, that’s a real last name) and a host of others that make you think the person missed their calling as a professional wrestler, or if they’re a character in a movie, you just want to roll your eyes. I’ve ranted about super heroes and villains with names that serendipitously match their powers, Telford Porter being just about the worst offender, but obviously Sydney feels differently about it. In fact she’s obviously downright offended when the stars don’t align on the naming front. Even living in a world with actual super powers, the vast majority of people with cool names aren’t going to have powers, so she’d better get used to it.
I encourage people to share the coolest or craziest names you’ve come across, including people who you’d marry just for their last name and then name your kid something rad. (Or lawsuit inducingly awful.) My wife’s last name, for instance, was Warr. If she’d had a daughter she should have named her Cybil.
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Phenomenally awesome name. Itty bitty mundane powers.
Also…I used to know a guy named Mars MilleniumFalcon Starcruiser in the Navy. That guy had the most awesome name ever. And we still gave him a nickname. Names only mean anything because we allow them to mean something.
As a financial advisor (& apparently a good one, if Archon hired him), he probably has a pretty large living space though…
In today’s economy, knowing how to make your money make money IS a superpower, actually.
Actually, given what happened to my portfolio, it’s practically a MIRACLE.
Wait, does he really not have any Super Powers? o_O
Well, maybe HE doesn’t have any super powers, but it’s possible that one of his ancestors did. Way back when, most people didn’t even have a surname. Sometimes they’d add the place where they came from (ex: Robin of Locksley) or according to their profession (Smith, or Cooper), a description of what they looked liked (Like Eric the Red, for example), or maybe even about some behavior pattern or noteworthy event in their lives (like Dave’s mention of Savage).
Some people would actually earn a surname, being given one by the local ruling nobility in accordance with a great service they performed. It’s possible that the surname of Freeman was given by a grateful noble that literally freed a peasant or serf, making that person a “free man” in fact. Indeed, the use of the word “Master” as a prefix used to indicate such a “freeman status,” which gradually became used as “Mister.”
So, even while Aurelius Shrapnell may not have super powers, it’s highly likely that one of his ancestors did something outstanding to earn the name.
;)
Like, invent shrapnel? o_O
Especially black people in America, part of why slavery made genealogy so tough. His Ancestor could have been one of the Abraham Lincoln Era slaves.
A escaped slave that discovered he had the ability to absorb shrapnel in the civil war (Like most people can) BUT without getting hurt, and he can project it later at will.
so like osmund saddler and bullets?
Nice trivia – answers a lot of the questions I had, but never really researched. :)
Another source for surnames was your father’s (or mothers if you’re a girl) name. This is where you get Michael Jack’s son (Jackson) from. This led to names like a character in one of the classic books (Kidnapped I think) who’s name today would be Bjorn the third, but in the book was Bjorn Bjornsonson.
A fairly common pattern, and one that remains in effect even today. In Iceland, for example, the greater part of native-born people have surname’s like this.
My favourite example? Blue Skysdotir, named after her mum.
At least it wasn’t ‘Sharpton’.
I doubt Archon would allow a supervillain who doesnt pay taxes to be Sydney’s financial advisor.
I had a teacher called Mr Handcock. No jokes at all.
He sat us down on the first day of class and set aside 30 minutes for us to come up with jokes about it, so we would ‘get it out of our system’ on the condition we didn’t mention it again. :)
I once met a psychiatrist whose last name is Gaylord.
…Insert appropriate jokes here…
Things like this often makes me feel old. For me the first definition of gay was happy. It was only later I learned of the now popular use of the word.
As for Mr Handcock tough… I can’t help but wonder who had it worse in school, he or his sister. Going on a date with Miss Handcock?
That was Stacy Kiebler’s first real character when she was in WCW.
So she decided to be an elf instead o_O
Our infant school teacher – Peter Nutt – married a lady named Hazel!
Does Uranus count as a cool and crazy name?
I might say that it’s a crazy name, but not that it’s a “cool name.” What kind of parents would call their kid an @$$ right on the birth certificate?
Considering that the planet itself has a primarily blue tinge to it, is that what they refer to when they say that an event happens “once in a blue moon?”
Blue Moon: Second full moon in a month.
Actually, that was intended as joking about the origin of the phrase, not a history lesson.
I really don’t need a buttload of replies about the history…Yes, buttload IS an actual unit of measurement.
there was a girl in one of my classes who’s FIRST name was Gaylord.
I’m gonna have to ask – did the class make jokes after the initial 30 mins? ;)
Oh my god, yes. :D
Hehe… =P
As I child, I was treated by Doctor (profession/degree) Doctor (surname).
Did your parents ask him to “gimme the news”?
*him/her
He had a bad case of loving you.
I hear no pill’s gonna cure that ill…
That would have gotten him in a lot of trouble.
He was the urologist who fixed my testicular torsion. That was not a fun day. Robert Palmer released “A Bad Case of Loving You” just a year or so before.
And let me guess, it was playing on the radio when you went to the Doc’s office.
I have no idea. I do not remember much of that; it was almost 40 years ago.
I do not think my parents would have known that song, despite hitting number 1 on the Canadian music lists.
Doctor who?
No, Doctor Doctor.
So he is who all those jokes are about…
Doctor, Doctor!
One of the Elders in the church I went to as a teenager was named Stan Outhouse. His son was just a little older than me. His dad was John.
When I’m in an outhouse, sometimes I sit & sometimes I’ll Stan.
I had a relatively hot English teacher in 7th or 8th grade named “Mis. boner”
Jokes were made at first but she was good at her job, and wasn’t very strict so they soon petered out
Did no one warn Mr Shrapnell what his new client was like? O_o
I guess noone warned poor Aurelius about Sidney, huh? :D
How do you prepare someone for Sydney?
Very carefully
There’s a difference between giving someone a heads up and sitting them down with a video presentation.
Wouldn’t the previous nights news be enough of a video presentation???
While the cameras were rolling not even really good directional microphones would have picked up most of the Verbal Sydneyisms. Visually Sydney spend most of that “media-visible” section of the fight standing around under a shield thwacking people with the Light-hook. All of the “interesting” conversation was over encrypted radio, or likely drowned out by fighting sound to be easily picked out.
The most pure Sydeny the news would have seen would have been “mic drop” at the press conference, “Sand trapped” leg wiggling Sydeny, “I got this” smug Sydeny shielding the press, and “They’re going to exploded” invisible Level-up time. And while a decent cross-section of Sydeny I’m not sure all of that would have made the condensed nightly report.
What about the interview after the bank robbery, or even the footage of the robbery itself…
Lots of sun block at any time of year and a reminder to drink plenty of water, even if the country has just come out of a drought. Make sure that you have filled out your customs declaration very carefully.
Oh, you are talking the other Sydney. Stay out of her way and stay off The List.
And, avoid any sudden movements (that applies to both Sydney’s :P)
Yeah, those dropbears are vicious.
MRS. Scoville? Did she get married after all? 8-)
The question that I think of would be: Is that an honest mistake on Aurelius’ part…or Dave’s?
O.o
Maybe Aurelius doesn’t like calling anyone Miss. Maybe he believes that making a distinction between a married woman and an unmarried one is an antiquated idea, and rejects it. After all, he doesn’t make any distinction when talking to men, so why should he do it now?
Wouldn’t he use my least favorite title of Ms. then?
But “miz” is such an awkward thing to say, miss or missus rolls of the tongue better.
“After all, he doesn’t make any distinction when talking to men…”
That might just be because the use of “Mr.” doesn’t make any distinction for married status…
Yeah I meant to use Ms. I’ll get it fixed.
To Wolverine in her fantasy.
How did you resist going the route of both of you using a hyphenated combination of your last names? You would’ve been David Warr-Barrack! You could’ve still gone the daughter gets named Cybil route.
Or just taken your wife’s name.
You know, now I want to see someone in the comic who has a suitably functional last name like that… and then a powerset that is just completely unrelated in comparison. Like a Telford Porter type… who’s really a super strength bruiser, or a Victor Fries with illusion powers.
A telepath named Firelord Groundpound
When I worked at Game stop our district manager’s name was Revenge Vigilante. It was pronounced differently because he was French or Italian or something. Still an awesome name though.
Best name i ever heard was my brothers drummer at music university band, who’s genuine birth name was “Kane Hazard”
Could have been worse, he could have been “Kanen Able” :P
or Bye O.
Is mr shrapnell part of arc-something or other or is he a third party called in to help sydney?
Probably works in the same company as Ari (and if he wasn’t a full partner already, he better get promoted after spending time with Sydney :D)
Here in Spain we keep two family names, which helps making strange combinations. A friend of mine is called “Mate Prado” ([I] Killed Prado) which wouldn’t be funny unless you know his wife is called “Prado”. I hope he never fulfills his name. Brave girl in any case.
Another nice combination are “Marqués del Castillo” (Castle’s Marquis), “Mata Alegre” (Kills happily)
My parents had a friend in college named Killmeyer. Guess what they’re last name is?
Had a nice girl in class, name Karen, but after we learnt about Scandinavia started calling her ‘Caribou’ for some reason (another girl at another school was called Amanda, so she became ‘Amanda Ice-cream Truck’, after a brand of Ice-cream)
Kids can be such arseholes when it comes to names >.>
Which many parents seem to forget when they decide to stick their child with a “unique” and “special” name they made up.
Yeah, kids don’t need any ‘help’ :P
How about Moon Unit Zappa, daughter of Frank Zappa?
Yes, THAT Frank Zappa.
He also had a son named Dweezil. I’m not sure which is worse…
Actually, they wanted to name him Dweezil, but the hospital wouldn’t let them put that on the birth certificate. His birth name was Ian Donald Calvin Euclid Zappa. When he was old enough, he legally changed his name back to Dweezil.
The thing I wonder about is when the hospital staff thought they had any kind of legal authority to determine what parents could or could not name their children?
OPPRESSED BY “THE MAN” YET AGAIN!
Yes. In some cases they do!
For example, in Denmark, you must pick a name for your baby off a list of 7,000 pre-approved names; if the name isn’t on the list, then you have to get special permission from your church, and then it is reviewed by government officials. (Out of about 1,100 names that are reviewed each year, 15-20% are rejected.)
In Germany, you must be able to tell the gender of the child by the first name, and the name chosen must not be negatively affect the well being of the child. Also, you can not use last names or the names of objects or products as first names. The office of vital statistics (the Standesamt) may approve or reject the name. If the office rejects your proposed baby name, you may appeal the decision. But if you lose, you’ll have to think of a different name. Each time you submit a name you pay a fee, so it can get costly.
In Japan, one given name and one surname are chosen for babies, and except for a few examples, it is obvious which are the given names and which are the surnames, regardless of in what order the names have been given. There are a couple thousand “name kanji” and “commonly used characters” for use in naming babies, and only these official kanji may be used in babies’ given names. (The purpose of this is to make sure that all names can be easily read and written by the Japanese. The Japanese also restrict names that might be deemed inappropriate, such as “Akuma”, which means “devil”)
Even here in the United States, for computer input reasons, your names can be restricted by length (for example, in Massachusetts, none of your names – first, middle, or last – can be more than 40 characters long). Also for computer input reasons, in most states, you can only use the 26 letters of a standard keyboard (so you can name your child Jose, but not José, because the diacritical “é” isn’t on a standard keyboard). And there’s at least one state with a really unusual restriction… in Tennessee, a child of married parents can have either the surname of the father or the surname of the mother in combination with the surname of the father. Either way, the kid’s getting the dad’s name.
In Dweezil’s case, I don’t think the staff actually had any kind of legal authority, but they obviously thought they did.
In all of the cases you cited, the authority came from either the church or the government, not the hospital…So, as per my original question, how does the hospital take that authority?
;)
Well, I wish I could say it was because his mother was mostly Danish… remember what I said earlier about the “approved names”… except for the fact that Dweezil was born in Los Angeles.
I know there have been cases where authorities have overstepped their legal bounds to prevent a child from being given a particular name. For example, in 2013, a judge in Newport, Tennessee ordered that a 7-month-old boy’s name be changed from “Messiah” to “Martin”, saying that “it’s a title that has only been earned by one person, Jesus Christ.” (Yes, the judge is Christian. Yes, the ONLY reason she ordered the name to be changed is because she was offended by it. Yes, the family challenged her ruling and won. So the boy’s name is still Messiah.)
I don’t know if Dweezil’s case was one of those (someone overstepping their authority), but I do know that to get his name changed to Dweezil, the Zappas had to get an attorney involved. I don’t know if that was because someone was actively blocking it, or if it was because he was only 5 years old at the time.
Having said that, you know where Dweezil’s name comes from? It’s the nickname that Frank gave to his wife’s unusually-curled pinky toe. Who the hell names their son after their wife’s TOE? Ok, obviously Frank Zappa does.
Even then, that judge was making a ruling based upon a religious authority…
;)
Yeah, but she wasn’t supposed to, and got fired for violating Tennessee’s Code of Judicial Conduct, which requires judges to perform all duties without bias or prejudice based on religion.
In the 90s there was a German politician (I believe in the state Baden-Würtenburg) whose surname was Teufel (“Devil”).
To be fair, Frank pointed out that it didn’t matter what their first names were, the surname was going to cause them more hassles. (Oh he also had children named Ahmet [aka: Achmed] & Diva)
a few days ago the local radio did a piece on names they gave their kids… apparently at least NINE KIDS in America this last year are named: SALIVA… yes at least nine sets of parents named their kids SPIT…
And there are those who name their kids Cloud, Sephiroth, Sonic… Which I wouldn’t mind if I had a boyfriend with those names.
To be fair I knew a sweet young lady named “Cloud” before FFVII ever came out.
I know of two people, best friends, who had a son and a daughter around the same time. The daughter was named Pinkamena Zecora, the son was named Optimus Prime.
Dear God, I wish I was joking.
Optimus Prime!? Didn’t have a thing for wearing red & blue, as well as being a goody-goody? Never did understand that scrap-head, least he never shot at me tho…
It could be worse, Josh. Two of my neighbors are sci-fi lovers, and they almost named their daughter Xev Chiana. What I said was, “Great. So you’re naming your daughter after a woman who was sentenced to become a Love Slave, and an alien thief/slut who frelled her way across the galaxy. How tasteful.”
They eventually settled on naming her “Autumn Breeze”, which is still pretentious, but definitely better than “Xev Chiana”. They seem to have this thing for cute and/or pretentious names. They also own two pet newts, one male and one female. They named them Olivia Newt and John (which I actually thought was kind of clever.)
I know at least one family that named their daughter Aeryn. This is especially humorous to me becaus my high school, a fairly small one, had five boys named Aaron and three girls named Erin, all three names having basically the same pronunciation. Adding one more version to the mix would have made the problem of yelling your friend’s name down the hallway and eight heads turning even worse.
I had a client whose last name was Walker who told me that he and his wife named their son Luke, because they figured “by the time he’s in school no one will remember that cheesy sci-fi movie.”
I do like the newts. In vet school, the wildlife ward named a beaver Sigourney, and one of the geese was Duck Duck. I’ve also heard of a Canary Grant….
Just thought I’d point out that Shrapnel (the sharp metal bits from bombs) is named that due to someone with that surname inventing a shell that was designed to make plenty of it. from memory, a frenchman in the nineteenth century.
The namesake: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Shrapnel
The Frenchman: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Forest_de_B%C3%A9lidor
… who perhaps deserves to be better known, but history is unfair like that.
I have learned something today!
Levelup!
And there’s a DC villain going by that name too. I’ll just leave this here then…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shrapnel_%28DC_Comics%29
Well, gotta be honest, this page felt like it came out of nowhere.
and syndeys behaviour seems too over the top compared to her so far today, unless she’s riding some kind of money high
Yeah, her expectations on how the universe works was already contradicted when she saw her paycheck. The fact that she didn’t think of it as a “disappointment” is irrelevant…
And for all her barrage of Sydneyisms, she never said anything about being addressed as “Mrs.”
At least he didn’t call her “Mr” :D
hey, she may have taken that as a bigger compliment.
Considering how she already feels about her body image? o_O
And wishing that her menstrual cycle would just go away forever…
…And wishing that her menstrual cycle would just go away forever…
Really gotta fix the echo in here.
Working a phone jobs I’ve come across a few superhero worthy names. I have talked to a Peter Parker. Other alliterations have been Sara Smith and so forth. I think my two personal favorites were Damian Slaughter and Chuck Tradzik. I even stole that last name for a character in a game I ran.
Oh, and lets not forget about a substitute teacher named Mr Fillin…
I used to work with a guy named Daiman Killgore III. He had a son while I was there and yes, he was named Daiman Killgore IV
Many years ago, back when I worked for the Australian public service, I had cause to phone a Mr Wanka.*.
(* – For those unfamiliar with Aussie slang, a “wanker” is a person who “wanks”, ie. frequently plays with certain bodyparts, is NOT Master Of His Domain and/or is deeply in love with himself, etc.. Generally, not something to call either a stranger or a friend.)
By sheer good fortune, I spoke to his receptionist first, and did the “I have this name here, but I’m not sure if it’s correct, etc.” To which his receptionist IMMEDIATELY responded, “Oh, you must be after Mr WONKA.”
So I had a friendly phone conversation with the fellow, and the fact that I pronounced his surname correctly probably helped a lot. I didn’t ask about his name, figuring he’d have heard ALL the jokes.
Was his first name ‘William’? Maybe ‘Bill’ for short? ;)
Kerry, actually.
I am assuming this guy was not the owner of a chocolate factory.
There was this support call going around the internets some time ago about a call center guy whose name was Batman Superman. It sounded like any other name in his country, alas, the callers thought he was messing with them.
Correction – it was “Supaman” I think?
Actually, a girl who got in the finals of a german rip-off of america’s idol had the family name “Batman”, though pronounced a bit different. It’s not that uncommon here, as “man” or “mann” is a very common ending syllable in german family names.
If I ever come across a girl named “Batman”, I’d name my child “Iam”.
No. His name is Batman bin Suparman
In my Communications job, I encountered “Demon Payne,” “Rock Hardcastle,” and “Bruce Knight.”
Many years ago, for some reason I was perusing a north Virginia phone book. (I know I’m dating myself by saying that) I was tickled to find a listing for O. MacDonald in Farmington.
… had a farm. (couldn’t resist :P )
In my grade 8 class back in the late 70’s, we tended to start our days with a recap of current events. One day, one of the girls brought in a report that Ronald MacDonald had been arrested the day before for robbing a Burger King restaurant. Hopefully Ron does not have a sister named Wendy. Of all the news stories brought in by the students, this is the one I remember.
One unfortunate girl I knew had the last name was “Wrape.” Yes, pronounced “rape.” To make it worse, apparently her parents thought it was cute to name their daughters after days of the week…
I’ve heard of a Russian married couple who had two daughters. They named them Ima & Ura…Last name, Hogg.
Well, there was a Ima hogg in USA :) but she only had brothers :)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ima_Hogg
When I was a kid there was a girl in town called Ima Fink.
I also knew a boy with the last name of von Rippen, who changed it to be Ripper, so he was Damon Ripper.
One of my teachers was Mrs Dyk, and supposedly her husband’s name was Harry.
Why would you ever change your name away from a von!?
The worst one I’ve seen in this vein was a female classmate in college with the unfortunate last name of Dickhouse. No joking around here, pronounced exactly like it’s spelled.
Saw on 4chan a man who took pictures of his grandfather’s old office-supplies, including nameplates for his office desk. The man’s name? Dick Raper.
The craziest name I ever encountered was at a retail job. The customer’s order paperwork read “Batman, Walter.” I laughed, thinking that there was no possible way. So when the guy paid with his credit card, I pulled the whole “need to see your ID just to be safe,” routine.
That was his legal name. Walter. Batman. Right on the legal ID. Huh.
On a similar note, ive met someone called Wayne Bruce. He goes by the nickname of Manbat. (awesome nickname IMO)
My home city of Melbourne, Australia was founded by John Batman, so it happens. We even have a Batman Park and a Batman Avenue.
As you can probably guess, a ‘Batman’ had a definition well before the comic character ever came into being.
‘A batman (or batwoman) is a soldier or airman assigned to a commissioned officer as a personal servant. Before the advent of motorized transport, an officer’s batman was also in charge of the officer’s “bat-horse” that carried the pack saddle with his officer’s kit during a campaign.’
Like Private Baldrick to Capt. Blackadder.
A personal servant, eh?
So, in a way, Alfred is Batman’s batman.
This is for you…
Well nothing actually awesome but back around thhe turn of the millennium when I lived in public housing, I saw a couple people in the unfortunately coincidental category: a fireman named Jim Carey, and Dominoes delivery man whose nametag read Peter Parker.
*Wince* Fire Marshal Bill. Oh the scarring memories.
I know a family with the surname Killin, father named Mac, son named Stone.
Lucky they’re no K-R-illin (Krillin), or they’d keep dropping like flies…
my old work legitamatly had 6 luke skywalkers and 3 han solos in our national customer database
Quite a few years ago, the phonebook in my hometown had 7 people with the same first & last name as mine. The only one of them I was related to in any way was my own dad. As it turned out, our 3-year high school (10th, 11th & 12th grades) had someone with MY name during a length of 8 years, consecutively.
I could believe you…or say you’re a vampire, both work.
If it had actually been me all 8 of those years, it wouldn’t make me a vampire…It’d make me academically incompetent.
;)
Well, there’s always the famous “Batman bin Suparman”. Who is currently in jail for theft, breaking-and-entering and drug possession and usage.
Everyone missed that he *does* have a power: super pay-checks.
The man who founded Melbourne, Australia was John Batman.
…They are yet to find his hidden Batcave…
I’ve seen the combination of Cannon (husband) and Power (wife). Should’ve taken the double name and give the children names like Laser.
Sydney’s been very hyperactive as of recently…
Sydney’s been very hyperactive as of recently…
Probably still in the throes of her “cash-gasm” earlier.
It’s been a very exciting day and she spent a lot of time concentrating on assembling that gun.
There was a rugby player in the Australian national team in the 2000’s named Stirling Mortlock, who I always figured would be the most likely man in the country to get super powers.
Sydney, do you need another dose of adderall?
When I took driving classes back in the 80s, my teacher was O. (for Owen) Sherry. This was right at the time Steve Perry released “Oh, Sherry”.
I also have a best friend whose maiden name was Savage. Her mother had married twice; her first husband had been named “Wilde”.
Well, I’ve never met him, but in my city lives Arcangelo Della Morte (Archangel Of Death). Also Mrs Rosa Porcelli (Pink Pigs)
In Basic, way back when, in my squadron, we had a Sgt Rambo. We also had a pair of female Training Instructors, and when I heard someone paging Sgt Massengil, I could not believe it could possibly be one of them. Wrong. I was in a class she taught later on, and she was actually very funny. Sgt Rambo, on the other hand, was one scary, mean, son-of-a-bitch.
Also, a temp where I work now named his son Kal-El.
I work for a junk mail printer, and we get tons of unique ones coming through, including many that I am pretty sure are made up. Heywood Jablome, anyone?
Which reminds me. When I was in basic, I ran into an issue with last names. I was in a platoon that had guys named, Chrysler, Dodge & Lincoln. My last name was Ford. The other platoons just called us the American Steel Platoon. When I got to my regular unit, I had a Sgt. named Mazda.
Last item. One of my favorite writers had a book character who’s last name was Hooker. Her mother died in childbirth and the father was not happy and named her Ima…..
March Upcountry? I loved that series.
Has anyone seen Yorp? I miss him. He hasn’t barked at a thread for a few weeks now.
I hope he hasn’t come down with distemper or something. He may have only had two cameos in the comic itself so far, but he’s been all over the comments like…well, a swarm of fleas on a dog.
Oh, which pages and which characters? I’m curious. :)
Here’s one of them….still looking for the other but I am at work, so I don’t have a lot of time to search.
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/147
The only other dog that I can remember was the one seen in the background here:
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/1646
Don’t know if it’s the same dog, much less Yorp, though.
Dammit, I spent all morning coaming the archives (which was fun) and you posted the one I found as well. I concur though. Not sure if that is Yorp in the background.
Both the dog and the owner have the same colourings and similar hair styles but yeah I couldn’t be 100% sure.
IIRC, word of Dave is that they are the same, Sydney was mere blocks from her shop in the second strip, which is well in range of Yorp’s walkies, but didn’t happen to recognize those street names.
Reminds me of Where’s Wally/Waldo.
Where’s Yorp? :)
I also notice that Dr. Revenge has been conspicuously absent too.
We also seemed to to lose Waldo for a while, but I found him in that comments of the previous page.
You missed him at the top of the page? He snuck in a post seconds before me :(
No, I didn’t miss Waldo on this page, it’s just that his first post after a long time happened to be on the previous page.
I always find it amusing how even in something as small as this, communities and recognized regulars can become a thing
This time last year he did the same thing, and returned early September. ISTR he spends a few weeks in the UK with family.
As for Dr. Revenge, maybe he finally ran out of clones, like the annoying one from Deep Space 9.
*misses Yorp too*
Methinks David is a Voltaire fan.
Nevermind, I saw Aurelius and read it as Aurelio
I went through basic with a woman named Joanna Rider. Say that really fast three times.
Female (pronounced fuh-mall-ee) Johnson.
Orangejello and Lemonjello (twins).
Anita Head.
Richard Peter Bigdick. No, really, that’s his name, and he hates it.
Vagina (girl’s name).
Dickie Peter Bigdick…Nope, can’t see why anyone would hate that name. ;)
And WTF? Naming their girl Vagina… Damn it’s too early for a drink.
My friend told me she knew an Orangejello and a Lemonjello, but they weren’t twins. They were supposedly named for what their mother was craving during their respective gestation periods. I’m starting to think that either these guys are apocryphal or this happens more often than you’d expect.
I knew a Dr. Hymen. He named his son “Buster”
*Headdesk*
We had a guy in my Air Force squad with the name Himen. Naturally we gave him the callsign “Buster”.
One of these days, I’m going to run across an opportunity to pull Sydney’s “high five retracted” on somebody…