as found in
Vic And Sade
The Best Radio Plays of Paul Rhymer
Edited by Mary Frances Rhymer
Foreword by Jean Shepherd
The Seabury Press, New York. 1976.
“I couched my barbs with such subtlety they went over his head like soft summer clouds.”
--Vic Gook in radio play “Sade Thinks Baseball is Just a Game,” by Paul Rhymer, broadcast 1938.
The following entries will be inducted into the Name Repository:
Vic Gook
Sade Gook
Rush Gook
Mr. Ruebush
Melvin Stembottom
Ruthie Stembottom
Fred Stembottom (called Ted by Unk Fletcher)
Smelly Clark
Mis’ Appelrot
Doreen Appelrot Otto
Miss Glimpse
Dishwater (affectionate reproach)
Y.Y. Flirch
Dr. U. Flossmore Screech
Mister Fluke (frivolous)
Rinse-water (frivolous)
Nicer Scott
Third-Lieutenant Clinton Stanley
The Bank-robbing Professors of Yale College
Bertha Joiner
Blue-tooth Johnson
Mr. Gumpox
Ike Kneesuffer
L.B. Washman, Secty. for the Sky-Brothers
Sacred Stars of the Milky Way (lodge/fraternity)
Rooster Davis
Heinie Call
Hank Gutstop
Uncle Wolrab
Clyman Smurch, exalted auditor
Aunt Gully
Whitey Kuhn
Doctor Sleech (frivolous)
Mis’ Husher
Homer Croyman
Lester M. Cuff, honorary supervisor and worthy patron
Hamilton T. Looperman, Royal Chieftain
P.C. – Public Commander (title)
Jason B. Slopklinker
H. Y. Flubby
I. Clayton Smart
Piping N. Toothler
Orbit U. Hunk, Chief of Staff, Happy Roller Hospital
Ma Corkle
Mis’ Eaglefrump
Cannon-cracker Clark
Buffalo Barnes
Four-eyes Johnson
“Randolph, old peanut-roaster” (affectionate)
Water-bucket (affectionate/frivolous)
Bullfrog (affectionate/frivolous)
Box-top (affectionate/frivolous)
Mr. Buller the Chicago man
Steve Yowper, deceased after wrestling
the horse that choked Billy Robinson
Rishigan Fishigan from Sishagan Michigan
Father-in-law of Tyson R. Poppell
Mis’ Grink
Edna Warbel an’ her man
Oscar Y. Slump
Milk-bottle (affectionate)
old egg-crate (affectionate)
Mis’ Razorscum
Charley Razorscum
Homer U. McDancy
H.K. Fleeber
Robert an’ Slobert Hink
Tomato juice (affectionate)
O.X. Bellyman
J.J.J.J. Stunbolt
I. Edison Box
Harry Fie
Four-fisted Frank Fuddleman (movie star)
Irma Flo Kessy
Raymond Belcher Bierman
Harold “Rotten” Davis
Mrs. L.W. Slimer
Laurastine Price’s youngest kid
Quenteena Quarles
Mis’ Stormer
Ed Staker
Ol’ Mister Ginwhelp
Dry-rot (affectionate)
Harley Eggsocket
Gilmore Griswold, the four-gun cattle thief
Bulldog Drummond (after H.C. McNeile’s)
Orval Brimmer
Verna Brimmer
little Kennedy Brimmer
Stobo Brimmer
Foster Brimmer
Alvin and Eugene Brimmer
the bullet that choked Billy Patterson
Mrs. Shuggle (“Mrs. Buggle”)
Myrtle Frummer
Petie Brainfunny
Buffalo Kurtz
Henry Fedrock, who invented an electric fingernail file
Mrs. T.K. Hoygawper
Walter Hoygawper, who left and married a woman 16 ¾ yrs. old
Jim Fashrope, who either married a woman of 39 and died in Georgia, or married a woman of 49 and died in Minnesota
Doctor Klackgummer
Book Titles
Dorothy an’ Her Daddy or Romping Among the Buttercups
A Brief Biography of the Father-in-law of Tyson R. Poppell
Tricks a One-legged Man Can Perform with a Dead Gorilla!
A Report of the Work of the Sub-committee on the Boundary-changing Issues of South-Central Indiana
The Life of U.S. McGraw
The Romance of the Hinge
Twinkling Tunes for Tiny Tots
Sightseeing in Sunny Kansas
Fun and Excitement You Can Have While Polishing Silverware
The Soul of Bernie Gummerman
Famous Indian Fights of South Dakota
The Great Warm Heart of My Uncle, Oscar Y. Slump
How to Handle Ill-tempered Horses
I Hate Money
Little Princess Peggy an’ Her Punkin-headed Pig
East Duckworth, Oklahoma, Land of Sunset Dreams
A Manual for Wives of Sky-Brothers in the Sacred Stars of the Milky Way
Kitchenware Dealers’ Quarterly
from the Third-Lieutenant Clinton Stanley series:
* Third-Lieutenant Clinton Stanley on the Campus, or Winning Laurels for Old Alma Mater (in which the hero makes touchdowns for Harvard and Yale on one long run across two gridirons)
* Third-Lieutenant Clinton Stanley’s Big Love Affair
* Third-Lieutenant Stanley on the Campus or The Thrilling Capture of the Bank-robbing Professors of Yale College
* Third-Lieutenant Clinton Stanley as President of a South Sea Island Republic
* Third-Lieutenant Clinton Stanley in the Tropics or Twenty Years Among Savage Cannibals
Movies
Gazing into Your Eyes Like This Is Heaven, Minor-league Assistant Umpire Drake
I Hate You, with Bill Bleatman the carefree cowboy cavalier
Murder, Murder, Murder, with Vincent Vance the ruthless Romeo of the Ranch
You Are My Own Wonderful Husband, Subaltern Gleek
Yours Is A Magnificent Love, Petty-Officer Griswold
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