Names in Aerospace and Military - fun coincidences

[Rhinocrates]

Character names in novels can be funny even when they're not satirical. Ian Flemming was having an in-joke naming Bond villains after people he knew - Henry Blofeld, a BBC cricket commentator, and Erno Goldfinger, an architect. I have no idea why Michael Crichton decided to name the game warden in Jurassic Park Robert Muldoon. A New Zealander can't read that without a smirk. It's about as logical as 'Richard Nixon, big game warden' - if Nixon had been short and plump. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Muldoon

 

[robunos]

Character names in novels can be funny even when they're not satirical. Ian Flemming was having an in-joke naming Bond villains after people he know - Henry Blofeld, a BBC cricket commentator, and Erno Goldfinger, an architect. I have no idea why Michael Crichton decided to name the game warden in Jurassic Park Robert Muldoon. A New Zealander can't read that without a smirk. It's about as logical as 'Richard Nixon, big game warden' - if Nixon had been short and plump. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Muldoon

And Clive Muldoon was one of the aliases used by John Stonehouse . . .

cheers,
Robin.

 

[Gerard]

BBC tv news got a local reporter called Phil McCann, and they sent him out to report on a petrol tanker delivery driver strike. And another interview was with a police officer called PC Rob Banks.

As for weird town / village names... there are LOTS here in the UK.

Ramsbottom, Middle Wallop, most are very old villages out of town.