Comments on: Thomas Sullivan: NAME THE BABY

By: Sully

Sully — Wed, 21 Jun 2006 17:50:00 +0000

I knew all those episodes of Flying Circus my kid made me watch would find life application. Yeah, I recognize it… The composer or somesuch, eh wot?

– Sully

By: Mark Rainey

Mark Rainey — Wed, 21 Jun 2006 11:52:00 +0000

Nah, that’s actually from Monty Python.

–M

By: Sully

Sully — Tue, 20 Jun 2006 22:11:00 +0000

Lawsy, whether your suggestion is the winner or not, Mark, I want to use that for a character name in some piece where I’m paid by the word (or syllable). Did you by any chance author the names of some Scottish towns? Thanks.

– Sully

By: Mark Rainey

Mark Rainey — Tue, 20 Jun 2006 17:43:00 +0000

How about Johann Gambolputty de von Ausfern-schplenden-schlitter-crasscrenbon-fried-digger-
dingle-dangle-dongle-dungle-burstein-von-knacker-
thrasher-apple-banger-horowitz-ticolensic-grander-
knotty-spelltinkle-grandlich-grumblemeyer-spelterwasser-
kurstlich-himbleeisen-bahnwagen-gutenabend-bitte-ein-
nürnburger-bratwustle-gerspurten-mitz-weimache-luber-
hundsfut-gumberaber-shönedanker-kalbsfleisch-mittler-
aucher von Hautkopft of Ulm?

OK, so it’s not original.

Excellent stuff, Sully. Love the little tale you weave to reveal types of writing. “Eccentric” indeed, but who would have it any other way?

–M

By: Sully

Sully — Fri, 16 Jun 2006 23:47:00 +0000

Well, shut my mouth. Eustace thru Dousenberry resonate, my good man. Thanks, though I’m glad you passed on them for Katie.
– Sully

By: David Niall Wilson

David Niall Wilson — Fri, 16 Jun 2006 23:00:00 +0000

Eustace? Earl? Trish just found out she has very distant relatives named Greene Ebeneezer and Dousenberry….

By: Sully

Sully — Fri, 16 Jun 2006 22:38:00 +0000

Billy Bob? Like it. ‘Tis in the running, though I have one through email from someone in Tennessee or West Virginia that I’m partial to at the moment. Let’s see what comes in. To be announced next column, I guess…

And thanks for the feedback. Will look forward to meeting you, though I’ve spoken a lot less since moving to Minnesota.

– Sully

By: Phoenix

Phoenix — Fri, 16 Jun 2006 21:59:00 +0000

"If, as I wrote in the last column, some people never get past the negativity of the birth experience and thus becomes literary critics, some people never get past the “no” stage either. They’re called . . . editors."

That is highly amusing.

Name the baby a good ol fashioned Fred, or George. Billy bob? Hmm, Baby M works. Maybe he'll grow up and work for the british Secret Service.

I'll have to try and catch your talk live sometime. Read the other too and I'm finding them informative and quite useful.

Julie

By: Sully

Sully — Fri, 16 Jun 2006 16:13:00 +0000

Hey, Trish (Patricia Macomber — the true power behind David Niall Wilson), do not let this man name any heirs! He may be exquisite on the printed page, but anyone who would sanction my nomenclature has serious issues.
– Sully

By: David Niall Wilson

David Niall Wilson — Fri, 16 Jun 2006 16:02:00 +0000

What was wrong with Marmaduke?