I’ve been unemployed for 3.5 months now. About five weeks ago I began working part-time at a friend’s business. I’m not naming the business or any names because some may deem the following sexist or demeaning. It is a ship yard and over 90% of the employees are men.
On the Friday before last I took some things to the yard manager’s office and found a group of people hanging around talking. I was told that they were trying to come up with a name for the printer / copier. They wanted to name it after a favorite porn star. The only woman in the group pointed out that it is unlikely that her favorite would be a favorite of any of the others.
They asked my opinion. I told them how porn stars and strippers get their names — that they use the name of their first pet and the street they grew up on. I assume that if the street is a number like 55th you would use the cross street or if you didn’t have a pet you could also use the cross street — Laurel Balboa.
I can’t remember the names that they had One was Tiger Elm. Another was Buddy Main. Mine is the politically incorrect Sambo Laurel. Which I think sounds better as Laurel Sambo.
I saw one of the guys this past Friday. He said that he remembered me because of the name game. They never named the copier because they were having too much fun with their own new names and were using them for their names using the walkie talkies.
Family Stripper Names
I’d love to hear from people about their stripper / porn star name. My cousin V doesn’t have one because she never had a pet. I’ll take that back, she had guppies. I wonder if she named them.
My older sisters and I all have the same name, although there may have been a pet prior to Sambo, a black cat who was left at our door when I was four years old. I searched for a picture of him, but couldn’t find one. We had a cocker spaniel for three days. L had a hamster. We also had goldfish, but I have no memory of their names.
Amy’s would have been Pasha Laurel, but she probably would have used Pasha Bothe instead since we moved from Laurel Street when she was two. We got Pasha when we lived on Bothe. My friend Robin had a pregnant cat show up at her door. The cat had two kittens and left after they were weened. Pasha was a long haired calico that looked just like the momma cat I named her after the card game Pisha Pasha.
Amy and Pasha, 1976