What's in a Name?

Copyright©1993 Evans and Savidge

By Warwick Evans

Clarence:

You know, looking at the names of some of the people who write letters to the newspapers, it's incredible. Here's one by somebody who signs himself Muscles Chan.

 

Marmaduke:

I know, some of the ones I've come across are even worse.

 

Clarence:

Really?

 

Marmaduke:

Yeah, what about Hitler Wong?

 

Clarence:

No!

 

Marmaduke:

Then there's Neon Lai.

 

Clarence:

You've got to be joking.

 

Marmaduke:

Titus Ho, Elephantine Kwok, Trombone Wong, and of course the three Fu sisters - Agnes Fu, April Fu and Cillie Fu.

 

Clarence:

Come on, you're making them up.

 

Marmaduke:

No I'm not. Okay then, what about the guy who's been in the news recently. Chief Inspector, Crime Division, in Taipo. Calls himself Satan Liu.

 

Clarence:

Yeah, almost as bad as Cardinal Sin in the Philippines.

 

Marmaduke:

But the one that really got me recently was when I got a 'phone call from someone called Gloria Lee.

 

Clarence:

Gloria Lee? There's nothing wrong with that.

 

Marmaduke:

Yeah . . . That's what he said.