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{{quote|<poem>''I want to get a job as someone who names kitchen appliances. 'Toaster', 'refrigerator', 'blender' ... all you do is say what the shit does, and add "er". I wanna work for the Kitchen Appliance Naming Institute:
''"Hey, what does that do?"
''"It keeps shit fresh."
''"Well, that's a 'fresher'. ... I'm going on break!"''</poem>|'''[[Mitch Hedberg]]'''}}
The ability to deduce the name of a creature or device by examining it.
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When it turns out the nickname isn't the real name after all, it may lead to [[My Name Is Not Durwood]]. On the other hand, characters independently deducing a particularly unlikely name may be played for comedy via [[Strange Minds Think Alike]]. Also related to [[Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep"]] (where everyone calls the character by profession because they don't know his name). It may turn out that [[His Name Really Is "Barkeep"]].
Not to be confused with [[NameTron]].
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== [[Comic Books]] ==
* In ''[[Elf Quest]]'', Cutter names the oasis the wolfriders arrive at early on 'Sorrow's End'. Turns out, that's exactly what the elves living there call it as well...
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