Accounts Payable Administrator
Imelda Czechs
Appeals Specialist
Bud Uronner
Appointment Secretary
Stu Earley
Arbitration Expert
Viola Fuss
Assertiveness Training Coach
Lois Steem
Assistant Customer Care Representive
Kurt Reply
Assistant Disciplinarian
Joaquin D'Planque
Asst. Fleet Manager
Lisa Carr
Australian Tour Guide
Joaquin Matilda
Automotive Medical Researcher
Dr. Denton Fender
Bail Bond Provider
Freida Gogh
British Doorman
Isaiah Olchap
Bunji Jumping Instructor
Hugo First
Broadcast Philosopher
Phillip Airtime
Car Talk Opera Critic
Barbara Seville
Chairman, Oral History Dept.
Ira Caull
Chicken Soup Provisioner
Kent Hoyt
Chief of Stadium Seating for the Olympics
Wayne Back
Chief of Tire Technology
Yessir Itsaflat
Child Transportation Specialist
Minnie Van Driver
Commencement Speaker
Gladys Overwith
Compassion Coordinator
Ophelia Paine
Computer Hardware Specialist
C. Colin Backslash
Conservative Political Commentator
Eileen Tudor-Wright
Coordinator of Summer Visits to the Inlaws
Don Juan-Gogh
Credit Counselor
Max Stout
Criminal Justice Expert
Lauren Order
Curator of Tom's Car Collection
Rex Galore
Customer Car Care Representative
Haywood Jabuzoff
...and that's just through the letter "C." More here (D-F selections) and here (G-R) - or, better yet, you can see the entire list at the Car Talk website.
Reposted from 2008 to honor the impending retirement of the Magliozzi brothers:
MIT-educated mechanics based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the brothers first went on the air on WBUR in Boston in 1977. Ten years later the show was picked up nationally by NPR. Today it can be heard on more than 370 stations by an audience of more than four million weekly listeners.
"We've managed to avoid getting thrown off NPR for 25 years, given out tens of thousands of wrong answers, generated lawsuit threats from innumerable car companies, and had a hell of a lot of fun talking to you guys," Ray said in a joint statement.
Tom added: "And when we listen to the stuff that's in our archives, it still makes us laugh. A lot. We're hoping to be like "I Love Lucy" and air ten times a day on NPR at Nite in 2075."
Reminds me of character names in the old "Rick O'Shay" comic strip. Rick was a deputy sheriff in a Western town. From Wiki:
ReplyDelete"His best friend is gunslinger Hipshot Percussion. Other key characters include gambler Deuces Wylde, dance hall owner Gaye Abandon, Dr. Basil Metabolism, gunsmith and Civil War veteran Cap'n Ball, banker Mort Gage and a kid named Quyat Burp."
Not mentioned: Dr. Metabolism's nurse, Ophelia Pulse.
Cost controller - Emma Chisset.
ReplyDeleteSite Security - Gunga Din.
Onsite Catering - Roland Butter.
Traffic Reports - Lane Cloziers.
First Aider - Justin Kayse.
Hugo First? The novelist? Creator of "Over the Cliff"?
ReplyDelete( by Hugo First, an old and perennial joke of my late father). There must be a whole genre of jokes like this, just like the "and that's when the fight started" and "little Johnny" jokes.
What you haven't mentioned - maybe it became news just minutes after your posting - is that the show is winding up in September, but NPR says it will re-broadcast old episodes to fill the gap..
Parking garage attendants: Skip Braking, Denton Fenders, Randy Batterydown, Chip Painte.
ReplyDeleteGardener: Moe DeLawn
The best name I've ever seen is for a Director of Communications - DoN o tReply (capitalization to help in reading )
DeleteI'd say this kind of pun, can be classified as a
ReplyDeleteeither malapropism,
a mondergreen (after Lady Mondergreen = laid 'im on the green)
or
homophones
http://www.fun-with-words.com/mala_mondegreens.html
More re mondegreens:
Deletehttp://tywkiwdbi.blogspot.com/2008/07/introducing-lady-mondegreen.html
http://tywkiwdbi.blogspot.com/2009/02/obamas-elf-new-mondegreen.html
http://tywkiwdbi.blogspot.com/2011/06/giant-saguaro-and-stevie-nicks.html
http://tywkiwdbi.blogspot.com/2009/07/props-to-otis-redding.html
So mondegreen is a new word, then, even though the joke is not new.
DeleteI'm sure if one were to read names of questionnaires, registration forms, corporate accounts (Enron) a lot more of these will resurface.
This is the kind of benign misinformation, that protects privacy. The fact that a person is forced to fake his/her identity, is balanced out by the joking and overt manner of doing it.
My favorite is the Car Talk lawyers...Dewey, Cheatham, and Howe.
ReplyDeleteLiam