Names With Zing

[Jonathan Lighter]

About twenty years ago, the _Weekly World News_ reported on a horrible experience. An elderly lady joined a seance to attempt to contact her sister, Matilda the nun, who had recently passed over.

  Owing to a faulty psychic connection, guess who showed up and wha he did next?

  JL

Darla Wells <dlw3208 at LOUISIANA.EDU> wrote:
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I remember all the neat burlesque names from when I was a kid, like Tempest
Storm and Candy Barr. The roller derby ladies in Seattle have some good ones:

White Team Members: Jowanna Ass-Kickin', Matilda the Hun, Ann R. Kissed,
Hideous Braxley, Dirty Little Secret, Meg My Day, Carmen Getsome, Rollin'
Bayou, Billie Boilermaker, and Rebel Belle

Green Team Members: D-Bomb, Miss Fortune, Burnett Down, Drew Blood, Rettig to
Rumble, Edie Brickwall, Valtron 3000, Katarina Whip, Tash-ya Round, and Juliet
Bravo

http://www.ratcityrollergirls.com/photos.html

Darla

With magic, you can turn a frog into a prince. With science, you can turn a
frog into a Ph.D and you still have the frog you started with. (Terry Pratchett)

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From: Doug Harris
To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
Sent: Tue, 12 Jun 2007 23:52:02 -0400
Subject: Names With Zing

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> Poster: Doug Harris
> Subject: Names With Zing
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> That is not, of course, the subject head we
> were using a few days or so ago re the matter
> of names that live on in memory for their...
> well, for their 'zing'.
> 'Just watched the movie Biloxi Blues, in which
> several WWII era soldier have their initial
> introduction to in-the-flesh sex, and sex with
> a prostitute. The latter character's name was
> Rowena, which could be said to sound sort of
> prostitutey in a Biloxi sort of way.
> The actress who played Rowena was named Park
> Overall. Now _THERE's a prostitutey name for
> ya!!!
> (the other) doug
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