Someone (Vampychick?) missed the other Robin McKinley-ite.
My kitten’s name is Aerin-sol, too. 
Our (as of this posting) guest Theodore Striker’s name is a filled-out version of the pilot from Airplane!
Still puzzling out Miss Mapp, though.
Another Day, Another Dungeon and One Quest, Hold the Dragons? I sadly don’t see the reference, and have also gone over a decade since reading them…
OOOh! I want to check in with my name, which is a mis-spelling of Andy Pollin…Which is obscure in itself. Unless you used to listen to the Tony Kornhieser radio show, which was cancelled. It’ll be really obscure a few years from now. Then it’ll be really cool. But as for right now, AndyPolley is kind of lame.
I dunno, but Capp did have another minor character in the strip called No Nose Nanette, obviously a pun on No, No, Nanette. I guess it’s possible the Lonesome Polecat character was inspired by Seven Brides for Seven Brothers.
Or songs from movies based on them?
I’m still waiting for Bosda di’Chi of Tricor. Any takers?
I think Bosda said once that he got it by plugging his real name (under which he used to post) into a “Star Wars name generator.”
Jthunder: http://www.toonopedia.com/jthundr1.htm
If you sing the theme song from the film Come Home, Snoopy, Come Home, the word “Snoopy” is stretched out into as many syllables as there are "O"s in Snooooopy’s username.
What do I win?
My nick could be a pop-culture reference, but isn’t.
p.s. Otto, obviously I’m male, get your eyes checked.
Picking some at random off the forum pages…
WeRSauron is an obvious LOTR reference
As is Tir Tinuviel
Lumpy Leave it to Beaver?
Jinx couldbe a Hanna-Barbera reference
Dr. Zachary Smith is Lost in Space, of course.
Kel Varnsen - Latex Division isn’t that George Costanza from Seinfeld?
ShibbOLeth could be a simple biblical reference, or a really obscure Firesign Theater reference
Ramanujan is a famous mathematician
Malodorous could be a reference to the “toffee-nosed, malodorous pervert” of Monty Python’s “Argument Clinic”
Snarky Kong I asume is play on words of “Donkey Kong”
betenoir is a Bryan Ferry album
bubastis is another name for the Egyptian cat goddess, Bast, and was Ozymandias’ mutant lynx in the “Watchmen” comic series
Derleth is a reference to Lovecraft’s disciple, August Derleth
Wikkit Could be a reference to “Life, the Universe, and Everything” by Douglas Adams, and harmless could be a reference to the Hitchhiker’s series as well.
Duke could be a reference to the peerage, a University in North Carolina, Doonesbury, or The Critic
fruitbat could be another Monty Python reference
Gamaliel was Warren Harding’s middle name
I’d consider it more of an icthyological reference, unless you consider the Golden Book of Tropical Fish to be literary.
I am not a fish dammit.
I was thinking more about the film director Ken Loach.
Thats not where I got it either.
Ooh, ooh! I think I know! Is it from Bruce Campbell’s bio, If Chins Could Kill? (“Ain’t you the guy from them Evil Death movies?”) I just read that recently.
I, too, will feel all warm and fuzzy if anyone can guess the origins of my name.
Tale.
In other news, Bottle of Smoke is the name of a Pogues song.
Kel Varnsen is Jerry’s alter ego. Kel was interviewing potential latex salespeople for Vandelay Industries.
Pash (not a pop-culture reference)
Mine is the name of character from Larry Elmore’s SnarfQuest comic strip, which ran in Dragon Magazine in the early 80s. It’s also my nickname among a very small but close circle of friends.
Katisha is a character in The Mikado, by Gilbert & Sullivan. She has a left shoulder blade that people come miles to see.
tygerbryght is a reference to the poem Tyger, Tyger, by William Blake.
I wonder if The Llama is an Ogden Nash fan?
Hi everyone - Isn’t Miss Mapp’s a reference to the Mapp & Lucia books which were turned into a quite successful BBC or PBS series?
Kel Varnsen, Latex Dvision & Art Vandalay, Architect, are from Seinfeld. I’m sure someone else beat me to it, so apologies. One of these days someone should make a Pinnypacker. What’s his first name, anyway?
h.e. pennypacker.