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Norman de Ploom Registry
Universal, multi-language, searchable database of Nom de Plumes, aliases, stage names, internet names, joke names, CB handles and hotel register favourites. | |
Having recently been asked to assist in formulating a response to a petition handed to Government, I was astounded at the number of hilarious Nom de Plumes amongst the genuine petitioners. Call me dim <cups hand to ear> but I have also only just 'got' the construct of our HB friend [Amos Kito]. Ha!
Good one, Mozzie! Similarly, it took me at least a month on the 'Bakery before [Rods Tiger] came into sharp focus.
All language is beautiful, and it is especially beautiful when it is manipulated and evolves in pop culture, for the purposes of humour, satire, insurrection, entertainment, debauchery, education, deflation of the pompous and political and social progress.
The same constructs abound in all languages of course, some far more than English in fact, and I think it would be a very valuable resource to have a comprehensive list (a wiki perhaps?) of such names - searchable by macro as one enters a name into a list <calls for technical assistance >
At the very least, it may stop someone wasting time attempting to contact a Mr Craven Moorehead regarding his objection to changes in bus timetables.
Please, not a call for a list, unless you have a particularly clever one you wish to share.
For gisho.
http://imdb.com/name/nm0001768/
[boysparks, Mar 26 2008]
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+ I like it, as I love words and the interestingness that comes along with them. |
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Just call me the 'baker formerly known as [phoenix]. |
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I never got [Amos Kito] until you pointed it out. Cool. |
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An old British tradition...Harry Stottle, aat. Not seeing why we should have to explain the joke for everyone, though - let them get it themselves! |
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//At the very least, it may stop
someone wasting time attempting to
contact a Mr Craven Moorehead// |
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There are some people whose real
names sound implausibly rude or daft -
will there be an accompanying 'Yes,
That Really is My Name' Register to
which they can subscribe? |
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Of course, the contents of that register
would become the Holy Grail for
budding
Bart Simpsons the world over. |
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I, uh, still don't get Rods Tiger. Help? |
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I quite liked the name dpsyplc. |
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Title edited from 'Nom de Plume Registry' |
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To create an exemplary self-referential pun, presumably. |
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