Beverage Onomastics
Bill Millard
millard at cuadmin.cis.columbia.edu
Mon May 19 10:59:15 CDT 1997
Sojourner wondered about
> the fact that the Rev'd Cherrycoke shares the same name with a
> delicious drink?
Well, there's also the Redzinger Family, whose religious Enthusiasms
seem to provide, at least for Peter Redzinger, a Jolt not unlike that
of a Caffeinated Beverage.
A-and, way back somewhere in GR, one of the minor characters, that
Frau Mu"ller-Hochleben . . . can't remember the page . . . well,
I'd bet all the cheese in Kenosha that the bottle sitting in front of
TRP, at the moment he thought up that one, wasn't green or brown but
_clear_, containing a product once advertised as "the champagne of
bottled beers . . . . (A skunking comes across the palate, of
course, if you leave one of those out in the light for long.)
Any others? Any theories on our hero's fondness for liquid monikers?
--Bill
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