What’s in a name

How life might have been different if he’d been born Victor Von Awesome.

- From Empire Online’s list of “top 50 comic book characters“, via [LMG]. The above quote is about #25 on the list.

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Published:: 14.07.08 / 1pm

Category:: Comics
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I. 14.07.08 / 7pm

The recently deceased George Carlin, talking about another arch villain:
Even the name, “Bush”, is related to the genitals without being the genitals. A bush is a sort of passive, secondary sex characteristic. Now, if this man´s name had been George “Boner”… Well, he might have felt a little bit better about himself and we wouldn’t have had any trouble over there in the first place.

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