It's time, it's time, it's time! What you've all been waiting for, what we've been building to for months: we look at Kare 11's anchors and reporters and guess what names are made up. Let's look at what Kare 11 calls their "personalities."
Remember, this is all guess-work. We're not accusing anybody of having a made-up name; we're just accusing people of having Ron Burgundy, Wes Mantooth, Veronica Corningstone quality names that sound made up.
Among the main anchors, we think Belinda Jensen and Julie Nelson sound real. Mike Pomeranz is just too much fun to say to be real, though. Diana Pierce sounds like a made-up authoritative anchor name, and Randy Shaver is Kare 11's Champ Kind.
Among the other anchors anre reporters, we believe Allen Costantini is made-up (but only because it is fun to say). Boyd Huppert sounds made-up. I've never met a human person with the first name "Boyd." Rick Kupchella sounds made up, and Tim McNiff DEFINITELY sounds made up. Tim McNiff. A little too much assonance. For some reason, we suspect the authenticity of assonance more than alliteration. Eric Perkins and Ron Schara sound made-up, as does Greg Vandegrift. Greg Vandegrift. Man, that sounds made up.
Of course, we have complete trust in the realness of Sven Sundgaard.
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Made up or not, Vandegrift is his wife's last name, too. She was a drug rep (who probably got axed when the drug she was selling was taken off the market)
ReplyDeleteI can't believe you never talk about Sanjaya, speaking of names, television, and the meme of the moment.
ReplyDeleteBoyd is not a made up name. It was a name that has fallen out of favor since the 1960s. There are many people named Boyd such as Packer great Boyd Dowler...who happened to play for the pack at the time Boyd was born...in Wisconsin...
ReplyDeleteDiana Pierce may or may not be her real name, but when she runs, she's listed under her husbands name, Diana Babcock or something like that
ReplyDeleteRick Kupchella is real... his father is the outgoing president of the University of North Dakota.
ReplyDeletegreg vandegrift had the same name when i knew him in junior high school
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