In fact, we’ve often wondered what it would be like to be one of them. A Nina Totenberg or a Renita Jablonski. A David Kestenbaum or a Lakshmi Singh. Even (on our most ambitious days) a Cherry Glaser or a Sylvia Poggioli. So finally, after years of Fresh Air sign-off ambitions, we came up with a system for creating our own NPR Names. Here’s how it works: You take your middle initial and insert it somewhere into your first name. Then you add on the smallest foreign town you’ve ever visited.So I guess that makes me Martt Matamoras, or Martt Montreal. I have not travelled much abroad. Since some people aren't aware that New Mexico is a US state, maybe one of their small towns would pass. Martt Hobbs, NPR news.
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
My NPR Name
If I were an NPR reporter, what would be my name? Lianablog asks this question and comes up with a formula for the answer.
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You forgot my favorite NPR correspondent name: Ofeibea Quist-Arcton, which looks exactly like it was concocted with your formula.
ReplyDeleteI've traveled a bunch, so I narrowed it down to the smallest village I've ever lived in. I came up with the alliterative: Barbarba Burn Bridge.
It takes a special person to be really bugged by the names on NPR, but I'm one of 'em.