Without resorting to a search, can you tell where this name comes from? Who do you associate with it? Know anybody named Cordie Mae? Anybody named Poovey?
Got any other interesting names of real-life people you’d like to share?
I’d say it sounds like something off “Andy Griffith”. And if I’m right, I swear I didn’t search. Yet.
Cordie Mae Poovey is a character from, IIRC, Lewis Grizzard’s columns. She was apparently a girl who went to school with him.
Robin
Bravo! Do you remember Lewis’s joke about the bulldog mascot at UGA?
And what was the name of the gal he was fascinated with in school who wore the tight sweaters? Her name was in one of his titles.
I did go to college with a girl named Cordi – short for Cordelia. Her parents were German, IIRC.
There was a name similar to that in either the Mayberry TV shows or else in some of his old comedy albums. Not quite that name, but close. He had a bit about one of his buddies needing advice on how to impress his girl friend and Andy told him he just needed to say something nice to her. So next time they met Andy asked if he had tried it. The other guy said, “Yeah, but it didn’t help much.” So Andy asked him to explain.
He said, “We was settin’ on the porch swing the other night and it was kindy hot and all, and I up and told her, ‘You know, for a fat girl you sure don’t sweat much.’”
Neat. Doubt if Lewis knew her, though.
Any other unusual names you can think of?
When I worked in a motel, one of the maids was named Velva.
I worked with a woman named Coral Lee Funk. Freekin’ awesome name.
I don’t remember the joke about the UGA mascot, but the sweater girl was Kathy Sue Loudermilk.
Laudermilch (that spelling, and some variants thereof) is a fairly common surname where I live, and every time I see that, I think of 'ol Kathy Sue.
Robin, HUGE Grizzard fan
Beats Vulva, I suppose. 
Right! The dog bit was about Uga squating down in midfield during the halftime ceremonies and licking himself “where dogs are wont to lick.” And one of the old boys in the stands says to his buddy, “Damn. I wish I could do that.” The other one says, “That dog’d bite you!”
Close - “Gomer Pyle, USMC”. LouAnn Poovey was Gomer’s girlfriend. She was a “singer” - her rendition of “Black Magic” still gives me the heaves
VCNJ~
I know someone named “Immie”. Short for Irmgard, and yes, she’s German. She remembers starving in the suburbs of Berlin as a small girl in the late forties. :eek:
I’m reminded of Grover Lowdermilk, but his significance escapes me. (Googles) Oh yeah, he was a pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals, among other teams. Not as well known as Grover Cleveland Alexander, with whom he shared a middle name as well as a history of hurling in the major leagues. As this article points out, Alexander was named for a U.S. president, and played on film by a future president (Ronald Wilson Reagan, whose middle name is also the surname of a former White House occupant).
I used to know a guy in high school with the last name Poovey.
That’s all I’ve got.
Damn! There was a kid in my high school with the nickname Pookey. Played football. Neat guy.
That had to be the one I was thinking of, thanks for the info.
When my uncle tells that joke, he says, “That dawg’d biiiiiiite cheww…” in such a shocked tone, it just slays me every time.
I have never met the woman, and I have my doubts about the veracity of this name, but apparently my coworker’s mother used to have an insurance client with the name Bertha Thunderpussy. His mom insists that was the name and I have no idea why she would lie to us.