# Make up silly character names **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 28, 2010, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-up-silly-character-names/534122 "2010-03-28T17:27:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2010, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-up-silly-character-names/534122/1 "2010-03-28T17:27:24Z")
I’d love to do a spy-spoof film, wherein the lead character is named **Roger Roundley**. Other character names that have come to mind include: ‘Stigmata’ Hari (or ‘Harry’) Jenny Talia (and her brother Johnny) Roy G. Biv Oliver Klosov Cecil Porpington (pronounced ‘Sessil’) Cloudy O’Sanchez (with a nod to NPR’s Claudio Sanchez) Lee Genes Gene Poole ---
**Author:** ![Taomist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/53a042/32.png) [@Taomist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taomist)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2010, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-up-silly-character-names/534122/2 "2010-03-28T17:29:24Z")
I still think ‘Marshall Mayhem’ would be a good name for a military goofus. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2010, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-up-silly-character-names/534122/3 "2010-03-28T18:08:33Z")
Tanya Hyde ---
**Author:** ![Milossarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Milossarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Milossarian)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2010, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-up-silly-character-names/534122/4 "2010-03-28T18:08:47Z")
Bart Fubbles. Crash Landon. ---
**Author:** ![Lightray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lightray/32/391_2.png) [@Lightray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightray)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2010, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-up-silly-character-names/534122/5 "2010-03-28T18:11:58Z")
Chalmondeley Featherstonehaugh ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2010, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-up-silly-character-names/534122/6 "2010-03-28T19:23:26Z")
Ben and Ilene Dover ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2010, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-up-silly-character-names/534122/7 "2010-03-28T21:04:56Z")
Sakkar Cox Fagh Bashir ---
**Author:** ![Frostillicus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Frostillicus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frostillicus)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2010, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-up-silly-character-names/534122/8 "2010-03-29T02:50:03Z")
> [@](#): > > Oliver Klosov This one is taken already. [http://twitter.com/oliverklozov](http://twitter.com/oliverklozov) ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2010, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-up-silly-character-names/534122/9 "2010-03-29T03:18:18Z")
Dammit! He stole it from me! 'Cause it can’t be that it’s so obvious. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2010, 9:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-up-silly-character-names/534122/10 "2010-03-29T09:33:19Z")
Lucifer J. Hornswoggle, Attny at Law. ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2010, 9:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-up-silly-character-names/534122/11 "2010-03-29T09:42:30Z")
Bluden Gutz Doctor D. Harkness Mary Alice Hart; signs her name as M. Alice Hart ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2010, 11:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-up-silly-character-names/534122/12 "2010-03-29T11:32:40Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > I’d love to do a spy-spoof film, wherein the lead character is named **Roger Roundley**. I want to do a murder mystery, with characters named: Maximillian Pound-Sterling Ms Paige Turner Doctor Oslo Norway Constable Tom Constable Mrs Rosemary Parsley-Chives …amongst others. ---
**Author:** ![Lightray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lightray/32/391_2.png) [@Lightray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightray)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2010, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-up-silly-character-names/534122/13 "2010-03-29T13:05:04Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > Ms Paige Turner I was _this_ close to convincing my friend – a Mr. Turner – to name his daughter “Paige”. Alas, he saw through my nefarious scheme. Although it was worth it, to see him slowly realize “hey… wait. a. minute…” ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2010, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-up-silly-character-names/534122/14 "2010-03-29T13:40:14Z")
> [@Der\_Trihs](#): > > Mary Alice Hart; signs her name as M. Alice Hart Maybe it should be Alice Aforethought. ---
**Author:** ![randwill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a3d4f5/32.png) [@randwill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/randwill)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2010, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-up-silly-character-names/534122/15 "2010-03-29T14:09:36Z")
I always thought “Limbs” Akimbo would be a good nick-name for a tall Asian character. ---
**Author:** ![Alka\_Seltzer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c89c15/32.png) [@Alka\_Seltzer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alka_Seltzer)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2010, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-up-silly-character-names/534122/16 "2010-03-29T14:20:27Z")
Newt Neely Jarod Beard Sonnie Drabble Goodwin Newbiggin Linsay Fuchs Jodi Surrency River Blunt Celia Moonshower Grier Teagarden Fitzroy Countryman Maitland Rodacker Caitlin Handyside Ferdinand Ledgerwood Reginald Weingarten Missie Eisenman Quinton Candles Destiny Cressman Lux Rumbaugh Juniper Strickland Royston Guess ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2010, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-up-silly-character-names/534122/17 "2010-03-29T14:23:16Z")
> [@elfkin477](#): > > Ben and Ilene Dover I actually knew those two real life people/couple ! Don’t know if they ever got married though. ---
**Author:** ![Frostillicus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Frostillicus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frostillicus)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2010, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-up-silly-character-names/534122/18 "2010-03-30T01:50:29Z")
Haywood Jablowme ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2010, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-up-silly-character-names/534122/19 "2010-03-30T03:54:51Z")
Arthur Itis Sal Manila Harry Covert (French surname, prounced “co-VAIR”) ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2010, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-up-silly-character-names/534122/20 "2010-03-30T04:24:28Z")
I once had an idea for a parody of _The Hunt for Red October_. Most of the action takes place on a Soviet fishing trawler disguised as a spy ship. The captain is upset at the death of his goldfish, overfed by a Central Committee member while he was at sea, and sets out for the rich cod fishing grounds in American territorial waters. The name of the American fisheries agent who catches on to his plan? Milt Roe. Or just go [here](http://www.cartalk.com/content/about/credits/credits.html). [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-up-silly-character-names/534122.md?page=2)