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  • #46
    Re: What's the coolest name you've ever heard?

    I was toying with intentionally cheesy-yet-intimidating names for a drug kingpin in an action/comdey spec of mine. I eventually settled on Paulo Trinidad, but some failed contenders:

    Ricardo Columbo
    Antoine Teagarden
    Felix Trinidad (already taken unfortunately, I remembered soon after I came up with it that Felix Trinidad's a real life middle-weight boxer)
    Jack Danger
    Tony Brazil
    Columbia Reecharound

    I say forget about the "Johnny" thing,
    1. it's too easy, and
    2. doesn't get much better than Keeanu Reeve's indelible Johnny Utah in Point Break. Snap!
    12 Angry Men is proof that all you need is a bunch of good actors, good characters, clear motivations and a table. -- Ben Odgren; Go into the Story

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    • #47
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      Thomas Crapper

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      • #48
        Re: What's the coolest name you've ever heard?

        Growing up I knew one guy called 'Johnny Love' & and another guy called 'Johnny Holland'

        They went on to become a farmer and a teacher respectively. They are not cool people.

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        • #49
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          The late, great Laszlo Toth, who can never be replaced or replicated. His story has never been seriously attempted, much less told. He was ridiculed as a petty vandal, only to be proven an (anti)artist of the first order. Long live Laszlo Toth and his hammer (not to mention his moniker)!

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          • #50
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            McLovin.


            End of thread. I win.
            Quack.

            Writer on a cable drama.

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            • #51
              Re: What's the coolest name you've ever heard?

              A name from an old Goon Show I have been itching to use in a script:

              Gladys La Tigernutters
              TimeStorm & Blurred Vision Book info & blog: https://stormingtime.com//

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              • #52
                Re: What's the coolest name you've ever heard?

                Something cool does not equal something bizarre...
                "This kid is going to be big"

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                • #53
                  Re: What's the coolest name you've ever heard?

                  I guess it depends just what you mean by 'cool'. When I hear the name Johnny I think of a James Dean/Marlon Brando 1950s kind of biker. But I think that's so well established now that it's become cliche territory.

                  Think of Entourage, a show about cool people. Who is cooler - Vincent Chase or Johnny Drama? I would argue that show uses the name Johnny as a trope to show a guy trying desperately hard to be cool, without realizing that his moniker is woefully out of date. His stage name is part of the joke that he's a dag.

                  But then, there's different kinds of cool. Vincent Chase isn't 'bad boy cool' by any stretch of the imagination, he's 'hot young professional cool'.

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                  • #54
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                    Bela Tarr

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                    • #55
                      Re: What's the coolest name you've ever heard?

                      I always thought Gwai Lo was a cool name. Also Wai Lo...without the silent G.
                      Last edited by jonpiper; 08-07-2011, 10:34 PM. Reason: correct to silent G

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                      • #56
                        Re: What's the coolest name you've ever heard?

                        Johnny AK-47
                        Johnny McCoke
                        Johnny Lobo
                        "Forget it, Jake. It's Hollywood."

                        My YouTube channel.

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                        • #57
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                          Johnny Five
                          "Only nothing is impossible."
                          - Grant Morrison

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                          • #58
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                            Benny the baker

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                            • #59
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                              Originally posted by ducky1288 View Post
                              McLovin.


                              End of thread. I win.
                              Ronald McLovin (not )

                              You didn't win. This thread's still open....

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                              • #60
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                                Jesus Theodore MacTavish Jr. Can't you just imagine the ****ed up back story?
                                I heard the starting gun


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