TheBanyanTree: Fwd: Re: Fun with Names

[Tobie Shapiro]

November 3, 200000005


Dearies,

	Okay.  I am going to let loose with the cluster of names I 
discovered on one memorable stroll through the Oakland phone book. 
This was a while ago, so some of these people may have expired of 
their names by now.

	You should know that there was a man in the Oakland phone 
book for many many years whose name was:

E. Pluribus Eubanks

	When he died, the local news carried it, bemoaning the end of an era.

	Here are other names:

Neely Slinkard
Lucky J. Owyang
Uglers Sisty
Wanchai Chukasamsuk

	I once fancied listing myself as, "Garnet Helfen", which in 
Yiddish means, "It won't do you any good", but there are rules about 
listing yourself with a fictitious name.  Rats.

	In my own family, the first generation in America had these 
(and other) names:

Sora Bryna
Ruchel Bunya
Frahdl
Mirchik
Bobka
Ancha
Achsa
Chaim Yossa

	This is fun.

	Love,

	Tobie




>
>So is Southern Indiana.  I have been to a dermatologist named Dr. Burn.  My
>childhood pediatrician was Dr. Amini (sounds like "a meanie").  My 
>first husband
>was an optomotrist named Dr. I. Ball.  The best patient name he ran across in
>his practice was Fern Turnipseed. 
>
>You couldn't use these names in a work of fiction because people 
>would think it
>was a stupid attempt at humor. 
>
>Julie

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Tobie Helene Shapiro
Berkeley, California   USA

tobie at shpilchas.net