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"Mark. Gooley" wrote in message ... "snip" a lot of GOOD stuff I haven't laughed that hard in a long time! Thanks. Casserole Las Vegas and Drs. Huey, Louie, Dewey were my favorite. |
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Mark. Gooley wrote:
Lots and lots of hilarious stuff I too haven't laughed this hard in a very long time. Very clever, Mark - thanks for posting this list. Sunflower has her favourites, and mine overlap with hers but I also am hooting at Boneless Breast of Passionate Nymph, Meat Loaf Albuquerque, Pot Pie Reno, Ranting Preacher and Raving Mad Bishop. What on earth made you start on this vein? I am very glad you did though ..... lol! -- Radika California USDA 9 / Sunset 15 |
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"Radika" wrote
I too haven't laughed this hard in a very long time. Very clever, Mark - thanks for posting this list. Sunflower has her favourites, and mine overlap with hers but I also am hooting at Boneless Breast of Passionate Nymph, Meat Loaf Albuquerque, Pot Pie Reno, Ranting Preacher and Raving Mad Bishop. What on earth made you start on this vein? I am very glad you did though [...] Thanks very much! A combination of things set me off. I've used this method before -- I wrote a list of names for universities and research institutions some years ago (check old newsgroup posts on google.com) -- but it's not original. There was a series of cartoons in some handyman magazine when I was a boy: they featured a series of drawers or bins with labels that grew more absurd as one went from left to right in a row. (Mechanix Illustrated?) One starts with one real name or item (better yet, several), and works logically from there. A progression logical in itself becomes absurd when considered as a set of names -- one hopes. I just had to apply this to roses. Another thing: the rather twee and silly names that I see given to otherwise fine roses. Now, I didn't lampoon all that many of them in my list, partly because I tried to use well-known real varieties, partly because I'm not clever enough. Tastes vary, and a name I find hopelessly cutesy or silly is perfectly okay with the next person, and yet... Consider the roses bred by the late great Dr. Bayse. Many of their names set my teeth on edge, even though the roses are good, some world-class. A real dose of saccharin: names of miniature roses. Some are enough to make one want to spade-prune or Roundup the poor innocents (they had no choice in the matter). I realize that there are many ways that a new variety gets a name, that names are changed when one's imported (Pinata for a rose bred in Japan? yep), and that no variety aimed at a wide market can have a ribald name like For Cough (say it out loud in an English accent if you don't get the joke). But consider the whole thing 1) an attempt to make people laugh and 2) an earnest plea to shun mawkish and pretentious names and embrace lighthearted ones. I plan to start trying to breed new varieties myself, and considering the huge rate of failure, a merry heart seems essential. So far, my new Reichpraesident von Hindenburg is doing beautifully (I recommend it wholeheartedly), and I am sorely tempted to drive south to Muncy's in Sarasota (aka Sara's Odor to us Floridians) merely to secure my very own bush of Happy Butt. Mark. |
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