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on: April 14, 2007, 06:49:36 PM
Authors with silly names.  Or names that make you giggle for no real reason. Here's your starter.

Rudyard Kipling.  :D


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Reply #1 on: April 14, 2007, 08:01:53 PM
Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett.

(Now you know why he went by his title, Lord Dunsany.)

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Reply #2 on: April 16, 2007, 06:11:35 PM
Quote from: SFEley on April 14, 2007, 08:01:53 PM
Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett.

(Now you know why he went by his title, Lord Dunsany.)

You beat me!


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Reply #3 on: April 20, 2007, 02:37:12 PM
A few years ago I found, to my horror, that an Author I'd loved as a kid: Nicholas Fisk, was actually called Peter Higgenbottom.  You can see why he changed his as well, can't you?

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Reply #4 on: April 20, 2007, 04:51:37 PM
I've always thought Minister Faust's name straddled the line of silly and cool incredibly well.


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