Aptronym

[dr_whom]

So, okay, I'm kind of interested in politics. But I'm very interested in names.

Which is why when I tell someone I live in Toronto and they say "Oh, the city with the crazy mayor?", I say I guess so but did you know that one of the main candidates to replace him is a conservative whose real name literally is "Generic Conservative" "John Tory"?

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[midnight-sidhe.livejournal.com]

Are we certain that this is a real person? They didn't just pull one of the stock models out of Conservative Storage and forget to give it a name?

[dr_whom]

hee hee hee

As I told lowellboyslash the other day, he really sounds like a nickname or caricature from a Scottish nationalist slogan: "Scotland must declare independence because we don't need John Tory telling us how to run our country!"

[midnight-sidhe.livejournal.com]

Heeee, yes, he really does!