Frog Applause by Teresa Burritt for August 05, 2017

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Name-letter_effect

I found a list of three-letter words that could potentially be considered odd/embarrassing/undesirable examples: A-N-T ……. A-P-E ……. A-R-F ……. B-A-D ……. B-A-G ……. B-A-H ……. B-E-G ……. B-I-B ……. B-I-G ……. B-O-G ……. B-O-O ……. B-O-Y ……. B-R-A ……. B-R-O ……. B-U-G ……. B-U-M ……. B-U-S ……. C-I-G ……. C-O-G ……. C-O-N ……. C-O-W ……. C-O-Y ……. C-R-Y ……. C-U-D ……. C-U-M ……. D-I-P ……. D-O-G ……. D-U-D ……. D-U-H ……. D-U-I ……. D-W-I ……. E-E-K ……. E-E-L ……. E-G-G ……. E-L-F ……. E-L-K ……. E-M-U ……. E-N-D ……. E-W-E ……. F-A-G ……. F-A-T ……. F-E-Y ……. F-L-U ……. F-L-Y ……. G-A-S ……. G-A-Y (I am not homophobic) G-N-U ……. G-O-D ……. H-A-G ……. H-A-M ……. H-A-T ……. H-A-Y ……. H-E-N ……. H-I-V ……. H-O-G ……. H-U-G ……. I-C-K ……. I-L-L ……. I-R-K ……. J-U-G ……. K-K-K ……. L-O-G ……. L-U-G ……. M-O-O ……. M-O-P ……. M-U-D ……. M-U-G ……. N-A-G ……. N-I-T ……. N-U-T ……. O-A-F ……. O-D-D ……. O-L-D ……. P-E-E ……. P-I-G ……. P-O-X ……. P-U-G ……. P-U-S ……. R-A-T ……. R-A-W ……. R-I-P ……. R-O-T ……. R-U-T ……. S-A-G ……. S-E-X ……. S-L-Y ……. S-O-P ……. S-O-W ……. S-P-Y ……. S-T-Y ……. T-I-T ……. T-S-K ……. U-G-H ……. U-R-P ……. W-A-D ……. W-E-T ……. W-H-O ……. W-H-Y ……. W-I-G ……. W-O-P ……. Y-A-K ……. Y-U-K ……. Y-U-M ……. Z-A-P ……. Z-I-T ……. Z-O-O ……. Z-Z-Z. [Some of the examples may be offensive or crude).

I forgot to include H-O-P (which would be nice initials for our pole -dancing bunny HAPPY, HAPPY, HAPPY!!!)

Without understanding what gets a person banned around here, perhaps I should be more careful. I might be walking on eggshells and not even know it.

He could still have a monogram with only his two primary initials, except that people would then assume he was a Cartoon Network Adult Swim fan.

C’mon, Bertie, live a little! Live not by standards laid down by others.

That is a Frances Ingrid Belhousen! FREE DOGSNIFF

There’s a reason why “Dick Tracy” has the same initials as Delirium Tremens.

BTW – @HAPPY, HAPPY, HAPPY!!!

https://xkcd.com/1871/

Our last name starts with B. When our nephew told us they were naming our darling great niece with an S name, I knew from my own blunder to warn him not to give her the middle name of Olivia.

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We wanted to name our first son after our grandfathers, to honor their beloved memories. Even though the initials are all consonants, so they don’t spell a word, I had little way of knowing they would come to be associated with a political movement.

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And, one of my favorite movies since I was a kid is “North By Northwest”, so I should have remembered about Cary Grant’s character, Roger Thornhill, who has a matchbook with his monogram; ROT.

Bertie never can quite seem to hit the mark when he blows his nose on his monogrammed hankie.

He’s always blowing it out his A.S.S.

Free Your Mind… and Your Ass Will Follow is the second studio album by American funk band Funkadelic, released in July 1970 by Westbound Records.

No matter how tight Bertie got, he’d never buy a round for his friends.

What may be the namesake of a name? My initials are K.E.J. As a child of 1960’s and 1970’s rock n’ roller parents, (both of whom that detested the flower child burnt out era), named their eldest son according to how a country pop singer/actor’s first name is spelled. Both rock n’ roller parents couldn’t stand country music either, yet both rock n’ roller parents had seemed to like how the country pop singer/actor’s first name is spelled..

Sigh. I have innocuous initials. But my first and last do make a nice monogram and/or nickname (which I used and encouraged while in college). And my first, middle, and Confirmation names match the name of a sometime-celebrity, and that’s cool (except that few if any remember that long-ago celebrity)….

The Golden Girls ‘Hey, Look Me Over’ first episode Season 7, number #155, originally aired September 21st, 1991; the episode that Blanche Elizabeth Devereaux reveals that her initials spell B-E-D..