Quick Google search removes last remaining value from planned cheap shot; blogger posts anyway

For months I've been casually collecting funny names from National Public Radio. You know, Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson, Corey Flintoff, Sylvia Pogiolli, Kai Ryssdal and the like. This morning I did a little research, to make sure I had gotten them all.

Not only had I not—how could I have forgotten Deena Temple Raston and Audie Cornish?—but I hadn't known that a similarly obsessed couple had, in 2009, created a formula that would allow anyone to create their own nutty NPR name: "You take your middle initial and insert it somewhere into your first name. Then you add the smallest foreign town you've ever visited."

For NPR, I'm Davird Monterosso.

Comments

[Jason]

I put the NPR folks to shame:

Jajson Basvanagudi

[David Murray]

Jajson Basvagagudi, meet Steve Chiotakis.

[james green]

Say hello to Jeames Cellardyke

[Joan H.]

How did I miss this? I love it. Jofan Kalskag. (I went with an Alaskan town--it's as exotic as a foreign one.)