Sunday, March 24, 2013
The Name Befitting the Profession
We saw a movie tonight, Ginger & Rosa, a good one. But as credits rolled by, I spied a name, Gary Hoptrough. He's a stuntman. It struck me again how names (perhaps made up) can reflect or be appropriate for the professions their owners are in. Maybe a big trough requiring a huge effort and skill to get across?
I've thought from time to time that Hawk Spittle would be a good name for a professional baseball player. Perhaps it's due to memories of chewing tobacco used by ballplayers to get their nicotine lifts.
Then there's a name that's not made-up, belonging to my friend Toby's proctologist. The man performs Sigmoidoscopies, inserting a long tube to examine the lower intestinal track, starting from you-know-where. The doc's last name...Nestlerod.
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