During the great ILX down-time depression of 10-15-2011 through to 10-20-2011 (never forget) I re-watched what, 20+ Seinfeld episodes again (You laugh? Screw you! I had to do something!) and this line stood out. Elaine tries to come up with a new name for her bf who's called "Joel Rifkin":
JOEL: Ned?ELAINE: What is wrong with Ned?JOEL: Ned’s a guy who buys irregular underwear. Next!ELAINE: Ellis.JOEL: Ellis?! You might as well go with Alex. It’s the same thing!ELAINE: Ellis and Alex aren’t even close.JOEL: NEXT!ELAINE: Ohh, what is the point?JOEL: NO, NO. COME ON!ELAINE: O.K. O.K. Remy.JOEL: Remy Rifkin? Should I get a beret?ELAINE: Oh, Stuart’s a lot better! (talking like a baby) Little Stuart Rifkin likes to go shopping with his mother.JOEL: Grrrr!
What first name do you invariably associate with traits of character, of what a person named like that must be like? We know now that Ned’s a guy who buys irregular underwear (no offense). Next!
― Y Kant Lou Reed (Le Bateau Ivre), Thursday, 20 October 2011 00:05 (fourteen years ago)
See also: "Claire? That's a fat girl's name" (The Breakfast Club)
― emil.y, Thursday, 20 October 2011 00:14 (fourteen years ago)
A vision.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 20 October 2011 00:23 (fourteen years ago)
Someone had to break it to you Ned, don't shoot the piano player
― Y Kant Lou Reed (Le Bateau Ivre), Thursday, 20 October 2011 00:24 (fourteen years ago)
"Need a guy who buys irregular underwear".
― Summer Slam! (Ste), Thursday, 20 October 2011 11:38 (fourteen years ago)
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― triple black belt in ILX-fu (snoball), Thursday, 20 October 2011 11:40 (fourteen years ago)
i've always liked the name "una" in print but i'm not sure how to pronounce it
― lite-brite phrenology (reddening), Thursday, 20 October 2011 11:52 (fourteen years ago)
lol, snoball, I used to have that book and was trying to find it when this thread came up, but it seems to have got lost somewhere in my many shelves.
― emil.y, Thursday, 20 October 2011 13:06 (fourteen years ago)
I think I have a copy of it somewhere as well.
― triple black belt in ILX-fu (snoball), Thursday, 20 October 2011 13:09 (fourteen years ago)
i think pretty much the worst name you can have is "Chad". that's a guy who wears a backwards cap and loves the song "I Love College" by Asher Roth both ironically and unironically.
― frogbs, Thursday, 20 October 2011 13:15 (fourteen years ago)
I think it was SPIN who, back in the 90s, started a review of an album by Live with something like "Remember how the most pretentious guy you knew in high school was named 'Chad?' This band has two of them."
― Waka Flocka Floccupy Wall Street (Phil D.), Thursday, 20 October 2011 13:18 (fourteen years ago)
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― Waka Flocka Floccupy Wall Street (Phil D.), Thursday, 20 October 2011 13:20 (fourteen years ago)