Clever AIO Character Names

Whit's wiping down the counter, Connie's mopping the floor, and the kids are sipping on their milkshakes. If you want to talk about Adventures in Odyssey the radio drama, this is the spot to do just that!
Post Reply
Chandler

Clever AIO Character Names

Post by Chandler »

There's an entire list in the first Guide listing names that were taken from various sources or are puns of stuff like that but I don't remember this name being brought up before.

Marianne Josephs


Get it?


Mary and Joseph! :rofl:



Er-I'm wondering if that was intentional when naming her. :-k
Top
User avatar
JoyElectric
Hexadecimal teenager
Posts: 22
Joined: August 2009
Location: Minneapolis
Contact:
Contact JoyElectric

Post by JoyElectric »

I'm still amused that they got away with a character called "Hassen Ben-Sober."

A critic named "Rosencrantz Guildenstern" was good enough, but hearing Earl Boen groan every time he had to say the name in "My Fair Bernard" was even funnier.
Image
Top
User avatar
Danielle Abigail Maxwell
Odyssey Book Author
Odyssey Book Author
Posts: 7111
Joined: January 2006
Location: Denver, CO
Contact:
Contact Danielle Abigail Maxwell

Post by Danielle Abigail Maxwell »

LOL... my cats nickname is Omar Bin Kitty... sorry, bring up Bin Laden, I think of that.

Wow, really? I never realized the whole Rosencrantz Guildenstern name till now... wow, Hamlet! Deja vu!!! (I just read that book for AP Lit last quarter!)

Names are pretty funny in Odyssey... Digger Digwillow... or Digger Digger Digwillow. lol. Levi Strauss!
Top
User avatar
The Top Crusader
Hammer Bro
Hammer Bro
Posts: 22646
Joined: April 2005
Location: A drawbridge over a lava pit with an axe conveniently off to the side

Post by The Top Crusader »

Didn't they name Mr. Shanks after a sink or toilet or something!? \:D/
Top
User avatar
Trixie Belden
Honourary Narnian
Honourary Narnian
Posts: 1803
Joined: November 2009
Location: In Owl City, on Tenth Avenue North
Contact:
Contact Trixie Belden

Post by Trixie Belden »

Agreeing with JoyElectric, Rozencrantz Guidenstern is still my favorite. What made it funnier was the way that Edwin groaned everytime his name was mentioned!
Image
Top
User avatar
Mr.Whit
Set blasters to rapid-fire
Posts: 5163
Joined: September 2005
Location: odyssey

Post by Mr.Whit »

The Top Crusader wrote:Didn't they name Mr. Shanks after a sink or toilet or something!? \:D/
Yes an english sink/toilet companie :lol:
Image
Top
User avatar
H Tide
Sing in the sunshine
Posts: 1756
Joined: July 2006
Location: Canada

Post by H Tide »

Mr.Whit wrote:
The Top Crusader wrote:Didn't they name Mr. Shanks after a sink or toilet or something!? \:D/
I saw many sinks when I was in London with "Armitage Shanks" written on them. :lol:

Image
Image
Top
Dave
Classic
Posts: 656
Joined: April 2005
Contact:
Contact Dave

Post by Dave »

And Katrina Shanks is a New Zealand politician (although I don't think Odyssey's Katrina was named after her...). She looks similar to how I picture Katrina Shanks:

Image
Top
User avatar
Taq
A great mapmaker
Posts: 2848
Joined: April 2005

Post by Taq »

Don't forget Madge and Guy-- I didn't realize the cleverness until I read O. Henry's The Gift of the Magi in a high school English class!
Top
User avatar
Apple Sauce
Hexadecimal teenager
Posts: 30
Joined: November 2009

Post by Apple Sauce »

i am listening to Madge and Guy right now :D
Apple Sauce, Good with pork chops by the way

Life Goals:
1 Go to Colorado Springs Colorado
2 Become a Psychologist
3 Blank
Top
User avatar
rickyderocher
My posts are revolutionary
Posts: 403
Joined: April 2006
Location: Export, PA
Contact:
Contact rickyderocher

Post by rickyderocher »

JoyElectric wrote:I'm still amused that they got away with a character called "Hassen Ben-Sober."
That name was "borrowed" from an old Three Stooges short according to the original Complete Guide published in the 90's.
Image
Top
User avatar
Leonard Meltsner
I'm memorable
Posts: 1542
Joined: January 2010
Location: Odyssey, of course!! Isn't that implied in the name of the forum?

Post by Leonard Meltsner »

And Duncan Banquo from A Class Reenactment was named after King Duncan and the Banquos' in Hamlet.
Image
Eugene-"Well, the sequence of events occured with extreme rapidity, but I shall attempt to recall them. I was powering my two-wheeler along this concrete pathway, when your personnage suddenly appeared directly in front of me blocking my course. My reflexes immediately sprang to life in an attempt to navigate an evasive manouveur around you while still maintaining course and speed, but I evidently over-compensated, and my Schwinn careened off the hardened path, taking me with it, and up-ended us both in this shrub, a Rhododendron of the heath family I believe, deducing from the leathery evergreen leaves, as distinguished from the deciduous Azalea, which as we all know is..."
Isaac-"You mean, you crashed into this bush cause I got in your way."
Eugene-"Well, that of course is another way of expressing it." Isaac the Benevolent
Top
Post Reply

Return to “Whit's End”