On 8/14/2008 5:14 PM mm spake thus:

On Thu, 14 Aug 2008 11:51:42 -0700, David Nebenzahl
wrote:



From the Click & Clack t-shirt somebody gave me:

Our studio repair technician is Sloan Cranky
Our ethics director is Maura Lee Flexible
Our director of grad school transportation is Iona Heap
Our accounts payable administrator is Imelda Czechs
Our assistant customer care representative is Kurt Reply
Our Car Talk opera critic is Barbara Seville
Our chairman of the federal lubrication board is Alan Greasepan
Our staff bicycle tester is Maya Certz
Our practical joke evaluator is Odessa Goodwyn
....

It's interesting how different this is from hearing it on the radio.

On the radio easier to figure out the joke meaning, and takes time to
figure out the spelling or even how the words are actually names.

In writing, every easy to figure out the names involved, like Maya
Certz or Odessa Goodwin, but without hearing them, harder to figure
out the joke.

I hate to admit it, but I'm not sure I even get one of them at all: the
last one, "And of course, our chief counsel, from the firm of Dewey,
Cheatham and Howe, is Hugh Louis Dewey". I *guess* that translates to
"You lose; do we?", but I'm not positive.

(By the way, I corrected the spelling of the law firm, which they had as
"Cheetham". No self-respecting Englishmun would ever spell that name
that way.)


--
"In 1964 Barry Goldwater declared: 'Elect me president, and I
will bomb the cities of Vietnam, defoliate the jungles, herd the
population into concentration camps and turn the country into a
wasteland.' But Lyndon Johnson said: 'No! No! No! Don't you dare do
that. Let ME do it.'"

- Characterization (paraphrased) of the 1964 Goldwater/Johnson
presidential race by Professor Irwin Corey, "The World's Foremost
Authority".