Maybe there’s something wrong with my brain. I don’t know; but there are some names that trigger “something” in it.
I’m watching the morning news, and a reporter is named Michelle Millman. In my mind, I imagine an evil alien saying in a sinister voice, “Mill-Man!” As in, “You will be absorbed, Mill-Man!”
When I was in L.A. there was a newsie whose name is Brian Hegedas. Okay, this is reaching back; but there was a consumer electronics store called Federated in L.A. in the 1980s. Their spokesman, “Fred R. Rated” had a commercial where he was frantically speaking gibberish: “Huminahuminahuminahumina!” So naturally, I think “Hegedashegedashegedashegedas!” (Say it as fast as you can.)
The disgraced Christopher Nance? A scene from The Boys From Brazil [in falsetto]: “Nancy? Telephone, Nancy!”
It’s weird, the connections that occur in my head…
pats Johnny’s hand consolingly
Back in 1998 or '99, there was a Zippy the Pinhead cartoon in which Zippy is listening to NPR and hears the signoff, “For NPR News, I’m Mara Liasson.” The name is pronounced MARR-uh LYE-uh-sun. It’s got a great rhythm to it.
Anyway, Zippy sits in silence for a panel or two, then begins shouting, “MARA LIASSON! MARA LIASSON! MARA LIASSON!”
Can’t find the strip in the site’s search, but it stuck with me.
On America’s Funniest Home Videos, they had this annoying “drop-in” character type thing that would refer to Bob Saget as “BobSagetBobSaget”… Truly annoying.
For some reason, there was one person in a chat room whose name struck me as needing to be said this way (we used real names in the room). It was nothing like BobSaget. Let’s say it was Mike Reynolds. Everytime I greeted him, I had to call him MikeReynoldsMikeReynolds, and he would do the same with my name. No idea why. To this day, I can’t think of his name without it being exactly that way: MikeReynoldsMikeReynolds.
Sometimes, I swear I’m OCD, because I do this with many things. (Can’t hear “I like it a lot” without following it with “I like it, I like it a lawt”, etc)
Time for me to gotobedgotobed.
Um. Yeah. Don’tcha hate when a perfectly good TV show with rich, totally unannoying content gets interrupted by something juvenile and silly? :rolleyes: 