This month's list is a little late (I know, I had a 'list' about suicidally stupid things Chinese people do with fireworks last week, but that wasn't The List Of The Month), but here it is at last.
Inspired by my discovery a little while back that the (otherwise really rather good) novelist David L. Robbins had written a book with a central character called Dag Nabbit, I offer you.....
10 Possible Characters for David L. Robbins' Next Novel (or yours, or mine)
1) Al Dente - mafia 'soldier', tough on the outside, soft on the inside (or should it be vice versa?)
2) Vida Loca - tempestuous Hispanic femme fatale
3) Sam Spayed - canine detective
4) Maggie O'Bey - Arab/Irish dominatrix
5) Justin Case - obsessively cautious corporate lawyer
6) Arty Wank - [short for Wankelstein, I suppose] pretentious New York Jewish writer (thanks to The British Cowboy for that one, of course)
7) Rosemary Ann Thyme - herbalist by day, folk singer by night
8) Helen Highwater - intrepid travel writer
9) Ali Bye - gangster's moll
10) Barry Cade - left-wing activist
And of course you could add any name used by Bart in his prank calls to Moe's Tavern: Amanda Huggenkiss, Mike Rotch, I.P. Freeley.
Another game you all can play......
5 comments:
Justin Case... lol
Did you mention Morry Bund - the cigar-champing Jewish police pathologist?
Or indeed Lucy Lastic - the tart with a heart?
The big wonder is that Sandy Shaw got away with it all those years...
In the year above me at school, we had a Pepper and Salt in the same class - and adjacent in the alphabet: they probably shared a double desk for years.
And one year, the 6th Form prize in Agricultural Science went to a lad called Cornfield. That still makes me smile.
Stranger than fiction....
The Americans probably think that you and I are backwards enough, Froog, without your giving the game away and telling them that you had prizes for agricultural science at school....
Oooh arr, Oooh arr....
Dan Gleebles was thought-up by the-chip-off-the-block.
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