Someone today called me immature. At this, I could only think "Duh?"
Case in point:
I was running a copy job and noticed the last name on the file was Bellfontaine. I said "Hey, I've stolen this name before. I can't remember for which story, but I know I stole this for someone's surname."
My coworkers in the copy center chatted with me about names and how one named her fish after another name we saw come through, and the one asked if I was ever going to use the name of a certain county, one of the more amusing ones -- Tippecanoe.
Yes, that is said
exactly the way it looks. I asked three natives before I believed anyone. Tip A Canoe. That is how it's said.
My response was thus:
"If I ever write a really bad western thing, I'm so naming the Indian that. It's over. Done. Poor Indian."
So, yes. Best never to be in public with me
especially when the suckers give me sugar.( Okay, now you can have Poison )