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

11.29.2012 by David Murray // 7 Comments

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.

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  1. Jason says

    November 29, 2012 at 2:19 pm

    I put the NPR folks to shame:
    Jajson Basvanagudi

    Reply
  2. David Murray says

    November 29, 2012 at 2:31 pm

    Jajson Basvagagudi, meet Steve Chiotakis.

    Reply
  3. james green says

    November 30, 2012 at 7:57 am

    Say hello to Jeames Cellardyke

    Reply
  4. Joan H. says

    December 12, 2012 at 11:36 am

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

    Reply
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