Thanks for the replies, guys! They were all most illuminating. Looks like I was right to be concerned as most of you went for the second choice or for a mall-haired Jerry Springer type. (Well, at least most of you who didn’t say I resemble a food item, a cat, or a Chuck Berry song). Oh, well…
(I like delphica’s and Umbriel’s versions best. Hey! I gots sex appeal!)
P.S. Yeah, I know all about the deeply moral objections to carrying a sig around with you, but this is just plain irresistible:
Yup, I thought of a Gary Larson-esque diner waitress with huge hair, thick glasses, with a pencil in one ear.
“Myrnalene, them chitlins done yet?!”
I think of that old '50s song, “Maybeline”.
I read it as Myrna-Leen, and thought of you as one of Morgan Le Fey’s sisters. In a positive, compliment-laden Mists of Avalon type way, of course.
A hair-straightening tonic marketed to lower-middle class African-Americans during the 1920s.
“Get the conks out with MYRNALENE!”
I read it in the second way, so what popped into my head was “a chemical derivative of myrrh.” Of course, I’ve taken a lot of organic chemistry.
Tourmaline (specifically, the watermelon variety)
I thought of a cleaning product, like Windolene (you may not have it in the States but it’s pronounced with an 'EEN)