Today’s Zippy, with fanciful names:
From Cookie Gowac to the Turbomax X-E.
Cookie Gowac is a real person, Celeste “Cookie” Gowac of the New Image Salon (25 Falls Road, Moodus CT):
New Image Salon is a full service unisex salon owned and operated by Cookie Gowac and employs a staff of 5 to meet your salon needs. (link)
The boyfriend Budwell I can’t put my finger on; Budwell is a modestly common family name, but rarely used as a personal name, so far as I can tell. Maybe Bill Griffith just liked the sound of the name.
The onomastic masterstroke here is surely Rex and Vortex Goretex, playing on the brand name Gore-Tex.
Then we come to the 2012 Turbomax X-E from General Motors (apparently not a real car). This name looks like a combo of Turbomax (as in the Indica V2 Turbomax from Tata Motors: “India’s favorite family car now comes with added muscle”) and XE, naming car models that are special in some way (the forthcoming Jaguar XE; the Nissan Micra, Xterra, Sunny, Titan, and Pickup XE; the Saturn Aura and Outlook XE, the Peugeot 207 and 308 XE; the Subaru Forester 2.0 XE; the Toyota Corolla XE-G; the Land Rover Freelander XE; and the Ford Falcon XE, produced by Ford of Australia in 1982-84, in a series of cars going from XA through XH).
(Yes, the license plate on that remarkabke car — knowing Griffith, this is probably a drawing of an specific car — does appear to say DRANO, as in the drain cleaner.)
As you can see, Griffith is a connoisseur of brand names.
March 5, 2012 at 10:36 am |
I always love it when Zippy gets a mention. But…could the auto license tag be “Drang”?
March 5, 2012 at 11:02 am |
Always possible, since you can’t see much of the last letter. But Drano fits well with Griffith’s brand-name fetish.