Kanye West, having changed his name to Ye, is now considering changing it again in 2022 to Boef Bourguigon. Or Orson Bean.
Kanye West changed his name to Ye thinking that it was pre-ordained by a Christmas Carole that his tombstone should read “God Rest Ye: Merry Gentleman”.
This just in: Kanye is not changing his name to Boeuf Bourgignon, because West is an anagram for “stew.” However, inspired by Shia LaBeouf, he is thinking about changing it to Beef Stu.
Shia LaBeouf was named after a character from True Grit – the undertaker that sends Rooster Cogburn’s body to Mattie’s homestead.
Marguerite Roberts, the famed Hollywood screenwriter, was raised on a chicken farm in Nebraska. She was notorious for inserting chicken-related in-jokes into her scripts. The movie title True Grit includes a reference to the grit found in a chicken’s crop; and naming the lead character “Rooster” was absolutely signature wordplay. She was married to Gregory Peck.
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Colonel Harlan Sanders, the founder of Kentucky Fried Chicken, suffered from a genetic condition which caused his head to be disproportionately large compared to his body. His trademark white suits were designed to conceal an extensive set of prosthetics, but there are photographs and illustrations which depict his actual bodily proportions:
Colonel Sanders is the inspiration for the South Park character Mr. Mackey.
South Park character Mr. Mackey was the inspiration for Game of Thrones character Khal Drogo.
Khal Drogo was the inspiration for Star Trek character Lieutenant Commander Worf.
After Worf declared prune juice to be “a warrior’s drink” in an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation, the National Prune Juice Council (based in Blawnox, Penna.) saw sales of their beverage increase by over 50%. In gratitude, they provided actor Michael Dorn (who played Worf) a lifetime supply of prune juice. As a result, Mr. Dorn has not suffered irregularity even once in the past 30 years.
Prunes are not made merely by drying plums. They are made by flogging plums to near death, and then staking them out in a desert with someone in attendance to ward off the plum vultures.
Prof. Pepperwinkle is correct. That extreme experience in the making of plums is why “plum” is used as an intensifier - e.g. “plum tuckered out,” plum disgusted," etc.
Milt Plum had a thirteen-year career as an NFL quarterback. After he retired, he moved to Arizona, where he spent so much time in the sun and heat that he was legally required to change his name to Milt Prune.
Milt Prune’s oldest son, Wilt Prune, actually started his own baseball with farm team, Sacramento Assorted Fruits. Wilt resisted calls up to the San Francisco Giants so to rebel against his father.
Milt Prune’s youngest son, Gil Prune, was a bit of a troublemaker growing up and eventually joined the outlaw biker gang The Plum Vultures.
The hard rock band Them Crooked Vultures evolved from a previous, less successful band, Those Straight Buzzards.
A lawsuit for trademark infringement brought by The Eagles was dismissed when it became clear that their original filing had not covered other raptors or scavengers.
The Eagles suffered a second loss in court when their lawsuit against Steve Miller claiming that the title of his band’s album, “Fly Like An Eagle”, was an unauthorized appropriation of their name and other intellectual property, was also dismissed with prejudice.
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When his band lost in court, Eagles singer Glen Fry was vocally upset about the ruling until Steve Miller told him to take it easy. Fry countered by telling Miller that he should just take the money and run. They both shared a laugh and then gave Don Henley a wedgie.
Don Henley then wrote a song about the wedgie. It became that classic hit, She Blinded Me With Science.