Made up characters...

[Arch]

At work, we have a name we use to describe a certain stereotypical character - a Muesli Belt dwelling Mum with artsy and Eco pretensions. She's called Tamsin O'Mimsey.

Just now, making lunch, I came up with a film star called Bacony Kissing. Probably a female action hero type.

We often come out with phrases at work that sound like they ought to be people, or placenames: when people fill a cardboard box with squashed plastic bottles to save space in their box for example, we call it Innappropriate Nesting, which I think is also a small village in Kent.

Anyone else got any made up names?

 

[BigonaBianchi]

I have afew for local car drivers

 

[sheddy]

opps - I just read that as Balcony Kissing

 

[accountantpete]

Not quite the same but we give the names of all the local shops a rock and roll flavour - Gimme SHELTER - new York DOLLS HOUSE SHOP - The SMITHS - Brian HOLLAND & Syd BARRETTS etc - SUBWAY Sect etc etc

 

[Maz]

In a previous company, we had some test rigs labelled A and B. The latter was named Eleanor.

 

[Canrider]

Your secret's out now, Maz, we know where you get your dark powers from...

Now from Arch, I'm just curious where the 'Muesli Belt' lies?

 

[hotmetal]

Muesli belt! PMSL!
I reckon it's between St Albans and Muswell Hill.

Eleanor rig B was worth a chuckle too. Nothing funny happens at my work...
(Well, apart from listening to Lloydy's stories from when he worked at Loaded mag)

 

[Bigsharn]

Your secret's out now, Maz, we know where you get your dark powers from...

Now from Arch, I'm just curious where the 'Muesli Belt' lies?

I'm guessing too high to be useful for holding the trousers up, but too low for slimming properties, but I could be wrong.

I've come up with everything being the fault of Dave, or at various music festivals it's Alan's fault. I have no idea who the two poor blokes are, but it's still fun.

 

[worst case scenario]

There was a man who lived in my uncles head called Michael Sabor who went schizo and made my uncle go round killing swans with a hefty catapult.

When the parky arrested him Michael Sabor pleaded insanity but my uncle had some sort of hellish recursive dialog with him and that didn't help either.

 

[ufkacbln]

Slightly OT

New Scientist sed to have something called nominative determinism... where people's job had been determined by their name.

Examples were:
Thames Water Engineer - Mr Leakey
Reuters used to have a reporter - Elaine Lies
NASA used to employ a Mrs Star
A US researcher in children's welfare was a Mr Fagan

 

[Arch]

Your secret's out now, Maz, we know where you get your dark powers from...

Now from Arch, I'm just curious where the 'Muesli Belt' lies?

Mostly along the Bishopthorpe Road, and the portion of Fulford Road opposite it on the other side of the river - Alma Terrace etc. Probably with kids at the Steiner School. Bikes supplied by Cycleheaven, to go to Anna Semlyn's yoga classes, or the allotment....

Every city will have its own...

Also at work, we have Annette. Annette is a ...net that goes over the big bag of plastic on the back of the vehicle when it's very full to allow us to cram a few more in and to stop plastic bottles bouncing or blowing out on the way back to the site. There comes a stage on each round when one of us will ask the other "Time to deploy Annette?"

 

[Brains]

We had big Development server names, the first one was Diana (Rig), the second Rigsby, (rising damp) and one made for a company who's initials were LC was of course Elsie, (and she would say her name on boot up), a few others were called after Disney and Tolkien charaters