# Using the put-down "firstname-y Mc-lastname" **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 16, 2005, 11:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/using-the-put-down-firstname-y-mc-lastname/308522 "2005-06-16T11:52:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2005, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/using-the-put-down-firstname-y-mc-lastname/308522/21 "2005-06-16T20:39:14Z")
> [@Velma](#): > > I just found a “Tipsy McStagger” reference in the Flaming Moe episode of The Simpsons, that episode aired in November of 1991. Anyone got one earlier than that? Oh, that’s even older than I thought. > [@Happy Scrappy Hero Pup](#): > > I got pwned in 2-on-2 Halo on Gamespy Dot Com by two guys named “Smokey McPot” and my own personal favorite, “Loiny McCloth.” Smokey McPot is a fake name given in “Dude, Where’s My Car?” Grr. Now I’m made at the friends who dragged me to it all over again. ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2005, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/using-the-put-down-firstname-y-mc-lastname/308522/22 "2005-06-16T20:48:17Z")
> [@sj2](#): > > Fatty McButterpants makes me giggle–it is from King Of Queens I call one of the guys I work with (behind his back, of course) Whinegard McSlackerpants. ---
**Author:** ![FilmGeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@FilmGeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FilmGeek)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2005, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/using-the-put-down-firstname-y-mc-lastname/308522/23 "2005-06-16T21:52:52Z")
Not the first time, but Ross calls his student girlfriend “Cutie McPretty”. ---
**Author:** ![Padeye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a9a28c/32.png) [@Padeye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Padeye)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2005, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/using-the-put-down-firstname-y-mc-lastname/308522/24 "2005-06-16T21:56:52Z")
The Simpsons example I remember is Homer trying to pass himself off as the character portrayed in the movie _Shine_, “Shiney McShine.” I still like Joey Jo-Jo Shabbadoo better. ---
**Author:** ![FilmGeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@FilmGeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FilmGeek)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2005, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/using-the-put-down-firstname-y-mc-lastname/308522/25 "2005-06-16T22:03:19Z")
On Friends, naturally. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![toadspittle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c0e974/32.png) [@toadspittle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/toadspittle)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2005, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/using-the-put-down-firstname-y-mc-lastname/308522/26 "2005-06-16T22:14:03Z")
I do this all the time, now, and it’s all thanks to the SDMB member who I think has the funniest name ever, **Wristy McSlashalot**. Where Wristy got the idea, I can’t say. ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2005, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/using-the-put-down-firstname-y-mc-lastname/308522/27 "2005-06-16T23:01:01Z")
Is it too much of a stretch to suggest Horace Silver’s jazz tune “Filthy McNasty” - or more likely, the Steve Miller Band cover version - as the inspiration for the phrase? ---
**Author:** ![Miss\_Purl\_McKnittington](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9a140/32.png) [@Miss\_Purl\_McKnittington](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Purl_McKnittington)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2005, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/using-the-put-down-firstname-y-mc-lastname/308522/28 "2005-06-16T23:04:58Z")
I’ve no idea who started the concept, but I likes it. Quite a bit. ---
**Author:** ![Push\_You\_Down](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/push_you_down/32/9095_2.png) [@Push\_You\_Down](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Push_You_Down)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2005, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/using-the-put-down-firstname-y-mc-lastname/308522/29 "2005-06-16T23:44:31Z")
It’s played out now. The new thing is calling someone a “Johnny (insert some menial chore the person does)” Waiters are Johnny Take-A-Plates Politicians are Johnny Cut-A-Ribbons Moms are Johnny Burb-A-Babys ---
**Author:** ![MaryEFoo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba8739/32.png) [@MaryEFoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MaryEFoo)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2005, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/using-the-put-down-firstname-y-mc-lastname/308522/30 "2005-06-17T00:08:34Z")
**Marley23** , did that actually originate in the vaudville days? If so, your cite pre-dates mine. Mine dates from the early '60’s, when my two brothers were in Alaska at the isolated tip of a forested peninsula, surveying it for the developer (who was already selling the lots they were establishing)(and who didn’t exactly know where the underwater lots were). Among his other faults, he sent a couple of his friends there for their vacation. They were referred to by my brothers as Pistol McChainsaw and his friend. P McC shot everything he couldn’t saw down, or vice versa. His friend told my bros that as a young man in North Dakota, he had found that the Great Bear rotated around the Pole Star twice every night, providing this as a piece of Great Wisdom Learned from Experience that Every Young Outdoorsman Apprentice (my brothers) Needed to Know. Among the developer’s other faults, he was not dependable in the provision department, and my bros had been supplementing their food with game until Pistol McChainsaw came along, after which they saw nothing larger than a squirrel, and few of them. ---
**Author:** ![Manduck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manduck/32/256_2.png) [@Manduck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Manduck)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2005, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/using-the-put-down-firstname-y-mc-lastname/308522/31 "2005-06-17T00:20:52Z")
> [@continuity eror](#): > > They did this a lot on the short-lived animated series Mission Hill. The only one I can remember is “Raunchy McScumbag,” though. That series was produced by Bill Oakley and Josh Weinstein, who were writers on The Simpsons in the early to mid nineties. Also writing Simpsons during that era: Conan O’Brien, who has a Kilty McBagpipe character on his current show. Coincidence?? ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2005, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/using-the-put-down-firstname-y-mc-lastname/308522/32 "2005-06-17T01:09:34Z")
> [@sj2](#): > > Fatty McButterpants makes me giggle–it is from King Of Queens This was the first time I heard it. I use this phrase a lot. ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2005, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/using-the-put-down-firstname-y-mc-lastname/308522/33 "2005-06-17T01:15:58Z")
> [@Push You Down](#): > > It’s played out now. > > The new thing is calling someone a “Johnny (insert some menial chore the person does)” > > Waiters are Johnny Take-A-Plates > Politicians are Johnny Cut-A-Ribbons > Moms are Johnny Burb-A-Babys That’s new? I thought that dates back to the Revolutionary or Civil war. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2005, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/using-the-put-down-firstname-y-mc-lastname/308522/34 "2005-06-17T02:16:13Z")
Al Capp used to use a similar construction all the time: Mc+ characteristic. There was Moonbeam McSwine (who lived with pigs), McFeeble (who dropped dead at bad news), Earthquake McGoon (a goon), Red Skelton created the character Cauliflower McPug, a broken-down boxer. So the construction goes back long before SNL. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2005, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/using-the-put-down-firstname-y-mc-lastname/308522/35 "2005-06-17T04:16:03Z")
> [@MaryEFoo](#): > > **Marley23** , did that actually originate in the vaudville days? If so, your cite pre-dates mine. I know very little about vaudeville, I was just citing the SNL ep. ---
**Author:** ![The\_King\_of\_Soup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a87d85/32.png) [@The\_King\_of\_Soup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_King_of_Soup)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2005, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/using-the-put-down-firstname-y-mc-lastname/308522/36 "2005-06-17T04:25:12Z")
Rube Goldberg’s Boob McNutt was first published in 1915. ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2005, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/using-the-put-down-firstname-y-mc-lastname/308522/37 "2005-06-17T05:07:31Z")
In the late 1960s, a little girl named Bayn Johnson played a Shirley-Templish character named “Curly McDimple.” She was a regular on the 13-week long Dean Jones series “What’s It All About, World?” ---
**Author:** ![Nunavut\_Boy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/e95f7d/32.png) [@Nunavut\_Boy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nunavut_Boy)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2005, 5:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/using-the-put-down-firstname-y-mc-lastname/308522/38 "2005-06-17T05:41:56Z")
There’s a pretty good bar called ‘Filthy McNasty’s’ in Edmonton (and other towns, I hear). Which apparently comes from a song. ---
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2005, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/using-the-put-down-firstname-y-mc-lastname/308522/39 "2005-06-17T05:47:11Z")
When I was in college, we referred to a certain gentleman who lived down the hall as Smokey McBongWater. ---
**Author:** ![Green\_Bean](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/green_bean/32/1760_2.png) [@Green\_Bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Bean)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2005, 9:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/using-the-put-down-firstname-y-mc-lastname/308522/40 "2005-06-17T09:46:19Z")
> [@Hypno-Toad](#): > > On the SDMB, there was a thread about a waitress who always went commando with a short skirt at the restaurant. SOmeone referred to her as “Flashy McCooter.” That was me! 🙂 I picked up the construction off of [fametracker.com](http://fametracker.com), where the forum posters routinely refer to celebrities by variations of this construction. Julia Roberts, for example, is “Toothy McHorseface.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/using-the-put-down-firstname-y-mc-lastname/308522.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/using-the-put-down-firstname-y-mc-lastname/308522.md?page=3)