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** This is [[Lampshaded]] in the episode because before seeing the Exit sign, Cory glances at better names (like a flier for a 'Blood Drive'.)
** At one point Eric makes up a fake fraternity so that he can have a fraternity party. When the Dean asks him the name, he sees a kid in a [[Magnum PI]] shirt, and thus replies "Magnum Pi".
* ''[[
** His granddaughter, Susan, adopted the false surname "Foreman" after seeing it written on the gates of a junk yard.
** Earned a [[Shout
* In a ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'' sketch, Fred Savage's character must create an imaginary friend for a competition, so as he's speaking into the microphone at a podium, he names his friend "Mike Podium."
** In another ''SNL'' sketch which takes place backstage, Andy Samberg tells a story to guest host Kevin Spacey about why he was late, which turns out is a Line Of Sight Story echoing Spacey's ''The Usual Suspects''.
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** It Gets Weirder: lots of obvious occupational names come from England like Baker, Tanner, and so on. However, some people had jobs in acting, playing stock parts in the morality plays. Supposedly, this is how so many people came to have names like Bishop, King (and Queen), Prince...and, according to [[The Other Wiki]], Virgo and Death.
** In some regions folk myth associates redutible surnames as a characteristic of a certain people that supposedly went under forced assimilation.
* The usual (but now considered apocryphal) anecdote as to how Terry Nation named those most famous of ''[[
** This has long since been confirmed an urban legend by Terry Nation, himself. He gave this explanation the first time he was asked where the name comes from, but later on confessed he had made it up, as anyone looking into dictionaries could find out. In fact the name simply came to him out of nowhere. Ironically, the word has meaning in Slavic languages including Serbo-Croatian, meaning something on the line of "far", or "distant". This, however, is purely coincidental.
*** Although at one time the London Telephone Directory did have four volumes that ran: A-D, E-K, L-R and S-Z.... (dalek is an anagram of the first five letters)
* [[L Frank Baum]] is said to have named his fantasy land [[Land of Oz (Literature)|Oz]] by spotting a file box labelled "O-Z". In homage to Baum and possibly this story, Gregory Maguire (author of ''[[Wicked (Literature)|Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West]]'') names the witch Elphaba: L. F. B.
** It was still a Line of Sight Name, but it wasn't from a file box. There was a store with the name Oz in it in his hometown in central New York.
** In a subtle [[Shout
* When Larry King began as a DJ in Miami his manager thought his birth name of Zeiger was too ethnic. Minutes before going on air, he saw an ad for King's Wholesale Liquor.
* One of [[Jim Henson]]'s [[Fraggle Rock|Fraggles]], Wembley, was named this way. At an early production meeting where potential character names were being tossed around, head writer Jerry Juhl happened to glance at a newspaper article about an event at Wembley Stadium.
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** Same thing with most Russian surnames. Before nineteenth century, only the Russian nobility, merchants and some richer urban commoners had surnames. The surnames for peasants, priests and various non-Russian ethnicities had to be made on spot. Peasants' names were mostly like this; priests' names were made from some random vaguely Christian concepts, often on Greek and Latin (for examply "Benevolensky" from benevolence), or from Biblical character names. Bad students of religious seminaries [[Crowning Moment of Funny|got names after biblical villains]]: Saulov, Pharaohnov and so on.
* British musical hall artiste Nosmo King picked his stage name from some partially ajar stage doors that split the warning "No Smoking" in "No Smo King".
* Actor [[Michael Caine]] chose his stage name after being told on the phone in Leicester Square that his proposed name of "Michael Scott" was taken. Caine then proceeded to glance around the square and saw a sign for ''[[The Caine Mutiny]]'', and the rest is history. He has also joked in interviews that if he'd looked the other way he would have ended up as "Michael [[
** Apparently this happens to a LOT of British actors. John Levene, Sergeant Benton of ''[[
* Tenth Doctor [[David Tennant]] (his real name is David McDonald, and there is already an actor with that name) says he got his name from a Smash Hits magazine, taking it from the [[Pet Shop Boys]] Neil Tennant.
* Ernest Tidyman reportedly came up with the name for ''[[Shaft]]'' while pitching the character to a publisher. When asked for the character's name, he didn't have one ready, but he happened to look out a window and see a sign reading "fire shaft".
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