Aptronyms
Slate's Timothy Noah welcomes Tony Snow to his Aptronym Yellow Pages, which lists people whose professions mirror their names.
It's not the first time I've read a reference to a White House snow job, but I think this aptronym's a stretch. (If he worked behind a plow or was a professional skier, OK.) Noah does list some better ones, including:
Joey Goodspeed, former running back
Harry Beaver, retired gynecologist
Les Plack, dentist
Cardinal Sin, appointed at Santa Maria ai Monti in 1976
My doctor once recommended a dermatologist by the name of John Cheek, which gave me a few chuckles.
You can find more aptronyms at Wikipedia.
posted by Nicole @ 12:16 AM
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The chairman and CEO of the Morrison Milling Company in Denton, Texas, best known for its prepackaged baking mixes Pan-Kits, Corn-Kits and Bis-Kits, is named Harry Crumpacker.
Aptonyms are a recurring topic in an addictive weekly chat hosted by The Post's Gene Weingarten, the man who discovered Dave Barry.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/discussion/2006/04/18/DI2006041800778.html
That didn't work so well. Just go here and select Weingarten from the drop-down box:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/liveonline/
Or click here for the Weingarten stuff.
The original Slate column gave a shout-out to Weingarten, which I failed to mention.
For years, until he died, my grandmother used to go to Dr. Hurt.
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