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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