I'm trying to choose names for a project I'm plotting and plan to write the first draft of in April for Camp NaNo. Do you ever find yourself with a perfectly good name but you associate it with someone that ruins it for you? This site has some fun names from the Victorian era, but ...
VICTORIAN NAME MY ASSOCIATION
Archie Bunker
Bernard from The Santa Clause
Bert and Ernie
Clarence the Cross-Eye Lion
Warren Jeffs
Yeah, so only a bad guy would be named Warren in any of my books ...
See what I mean?
What are some of your name associations?
Luke is a good Bible name but it will always be Luke Skywalker to me...
ReplyDeleteHaha I go back ever farther than Star Wars. I remember an old TV show when I was a kid with a character named Luke.
DeleteNow that I'm trying to think of names that have strict associations in my head, I can't come up with any!
ReplyDeleteLucky you. I didn't want to take my husband's last name at first when we married because I associated it with a psycho coworker. :D
DeleteFunny how we associate names. Agree with yours and Alex's associations.
ReplyDeleteYeah. That one's a classic.
Deletehaha Archie bunker sure wins for Archie. Jack is one that has like 50, but Jack Bauer I always go to.
ReplyDeleteI've known enough Jacks that the name is more diluted for me. I do have a character I love named Jack in one of my books.
DeleteAlfred... T. S. Eliot's Alfred Prufrock. Edgar I think of Edgar Winter. Minnie, of course I think of Minnie Mouse.
ReplyDeleteI thought of Minnie too since that's also a historical name from the time period I've been looking at.
DeleteWe all know Adolf is off the table...
ReplyDeleteAlthough I do think of Hello Dolly with Adolf. :D
DeleteSo right. One character can simply own a name. For me, Bob can't be anything but a butthead.
ReplyDeletelol When I think of Bob, I think of the Bill Murray Movie "What About Bob." And my FIL.
DeleteWhat, Clee, Bob is SpongeBob :)
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DeleteThis has definitely happened to me when I think of certain names.
ReplyDeleteFor good or bad!
DeleteThat was actually pretty funny. And, yes I have a terrible problem with that name association thing. sometimes I go so far as to judge people by their name, because is brings back an unpleasant memory of someone else with that name. YIKES!
ReplyDeleteSo, so true, isn't it?
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