On the same force with that dispatcher was a detective, S.G. Murphy — all the worst criminals around town complained “Shirley Gustafson Murphy shall follow me all the days of my life.”
“Our Boston police dispatcher is Colleen Allcars” would have been a great credits name for “Car Talk” on NPR. Not as great as their Russian dry cleaner, Pikov Andropov, but…..
I enjoyed that list whenever they used it in their closing! And of course that was always a selection, and a complete list could be found on their website. Among my favorites were the whole Payne-Diaz clan :-)
Those “credits” remind me of back 45+ years ago when a friend played intramural hockey at university. One of the teams called themselves The Russians, and their names on their sweaters were things like JACKOV and F***OV (but not with asterisks). We thought they were pretty clever at the time.
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Definitely OYs. I mean, I get all of them, I just didn’t laugh at any.
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On the same force with that dispatcher was a detective, S.G. Murphy — all the worst criminals around town complained “Shirley Gustafson Murphy shall follow me all the days of my life.”
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Mitch, not all of us are well versed in Psalms. Took me some effort to look that one up.
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“Our Boston police dispatcher is Colleen Allcars” would have been a great credits name for “Car Talk” on NPR. Not as great as their Russian dry cleaner, Pikov Andropov, but…..
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Pickov was their chauffeur.
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I enjoyed that list whenever they used it in their closing! And of course that was always a selection, and a complete list could be found on their website. Among my favorites were the whole Payne-Diaz clan :-)
Hold on … yes, it’s still there! https://www.cartalk.com/content/staff-credits
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The “credits” were initially amusing, but soon reached TLDR status.
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Those “credits” remind me of back 45+ years ago when a friend played intramural hockey at university. One of the teams called themselves The Russians, and their names on their sweaters were things like JACKOV and F***OV (but not with asterisks). We thought they were pretty clever at the time.
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I’ve been wondering if there is a proper term for pun-name humor.
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