1.14.2008

Top 5 NPR names

In keeping with the audio factor, these have not been spellchecked:

  1. David Folkenflick (the only last name I might ever care to adopt besides my own awesome one)
  2. Quinn Klinefelter
  3. Aniban Basu (I happen to know how this one's spelled since he spoke at my employment)
  4. Sylvia Pagoli
  5. Ira Flato

5 comments:

Chris said...

Did they fire P.C. Towers?

ricksterb said...

You've forgotten about Lakshmi Singh.

I got somethin to say said...

Something tells me you spellchecked that one, ricksterb.

Maybe I need to open it up to beyond 5 then to also allow for Nina Totenburg and David Beancooli.

ricksterb said...

Aha! I win. No spell check for me. I have a friend who I visited in Boston who had a roommate named Lakshmi. It's weird though. I've had a three year obsession with memorizing as many NPR correspondents as possible, but I have no idea why. Anyhow my all time favorite name (though this one really isn't that strange or funny) is Desiree Fontaine, an old traffic reporter for WYPR.

I got somethin to say said...

@Ricksterb, Kudos for knowing an actual person with an NPR name. As for your Desiree nomination, I am not sure I want to include her in my extended top NPR name list as I also remembered Tavis Smiley last night. I don't think Fontaine really cuts the mustard.

Stay tuned for my Top 5 (or 10) Infamous MiddleEasterner names.