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Fri Jul-11-08 10:30 PM
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Doesn't necessarily have to be British...and please no famous butler names used in moves or literature.
What do you got? I was thinking Jameson, but I got a feeling it has already been used somewhere?
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if you really want to help, the butler is really old (70's), and he is 3rd generation Cree indian. His grandmother was full blood Cree in Sasketchewan and married a british furtrapper and he took them back to England after he learned that he had actually been granted land inheritance following his brothers sudden death. There he renounced his son for looking too much like a "native" and embracing the way of his mother's Cree teachings. Whereupon, the son left the family and eventually found his way into butlery, which he groomed his son for, who is the butler. He is 1/4 Cree and looks predominantly so. He is extremely thin and has silvery gray straight hair. He is dependable but laconic, but has a very sad past. He has a long scar on his face, which makes him unemployable in most houses of repute in England. Currently he is employed by a small-time marijuana dealer in Texas, whom he likes and admires very much. (why is not revealed yet)
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Fri Jul-11-08 10:31 PM
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Fri Jul-11-08 10:33 PM
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Edited on Fri Jul-11-08 10:36 PM by ikhor
Thats my last name in real life!
Maybe I should take up butlery?!
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Fri Jul-11-08 11:17 PM
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31. OK, now that is freaky. |
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Fri Jul-11-08 10:38 PM
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Oh wait, that's the best name for a Puerto Rican pool boy.
For a butler? I'd probably go with Hargrove.
Do you get to name 'em yourself when you get one?
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Fri Jul-11-08 10:45 PM
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Yep I get to name him cause he's fictional :D
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Fri Jul-11-08 10:39 PM
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Edited on Fri Jul-11-08 10:39 PM by Mobius
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Fri Jul-11-08 10:48 PM
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Fri Jul-11-08 10:46 PM
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10. a butler who adores PB&J? |
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or a butler named after the family dog? hehehe
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Fri Jul-11-08 10:53 PM
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14. Actually, anything with '-ers' at the end would work. |
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Fri Jul-11-08 10:59 PM
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Fuckers? Butterfuckers? Sounds like a candy bar.
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Fri Jul-11-08 11:08 PM
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I just went into a coughing fit laughing at that. Put a disclaimer in your post title, would you? "Caution: Post may be damaging to esophugus, especially for those prone to easy amusement, and those lying in bed on a Friday night depressed about the turns their life took, or never took, or never even saw, and looking for the slightest whimsy to momentarily jolt them from pathetic lethargy into some semblance of life... Damnit, I split an infinitive back there, didn't I? Now the fucking grammar cops are going to hammer me. Can't even use irregardless in the privacy of my own damn bedroom anymore. Watermelon. I was planning to get some watermelon. Wait, is this thing still on? Fuck, at least I didn't threaten to cut anyone's nuts off...
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Fri Jul-11-08 11:15 PM
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28. This post has too many words in it. Shorten it to.... |
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'Har har you make me laugh funny guy' or you fail at posting for life.
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30. Only the most awesome candy bar EVER. |
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Fri Jul-11-08 11:17 PM
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34. I never had a Butterfuckers |
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Fri Jul-11-08 11:36 PM
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44. i've heard it's REALLY chocolatey. |
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Fri Jul-11-08 10:41 PM
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Fri Jul-11-08 10:56 PM
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17. sounds like somethin Carl would say |
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Could you imagine if Carl had a butler? lol
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Fri Jul-11-08 10:48 PM
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Fri Jul-11-08 11:00 PM
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19. ok what about a last name? |
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or last name Rhett? I can't call him by his first name because of social reasons.
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Tue Jul-15-08 01:57 AM
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58. lol this is kind of a retarded post |
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i know who Rhett Butler is of course, but for some reason (i was really high) it didn't click in my head when i read your post LOL
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Fri Jul-11-08 10:49 PM
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What fucking kick in the head, eh?
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Fri Jul-11-08 10:55 PM
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15. he'd drink all the best liquor and wine in the house |
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and you know he never would have dinner served in time for the guests.....
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Fri Jul-11-08 11:02 PM
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22. And he would probably invade the mansion next door for no apparent reason. |
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Fri Jul-11-08 11:05 PM
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24. yeah they could make a sitcom out if it |
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it be like Mr. Belvedere except with a drunk ass alcoholic womanizer dickhead for a butler.
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Fri Jul-11-08 11:08 PM
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26. You man that WASN'T the plot of Mr. Belvedere? |
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Shit. I must have been watching Dynasty all that time by mistake!
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Fri Jul-11-08 11:23 PM
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38. i dunno man i'm gonna have to watch those old episodes |
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Fri Jul-11-08 10:55 PM
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Fri Jul-11-08 11:01 PM
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20. nope thats like the 1st thing people think of when they think of a butler |
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Fri Jul-11-08 11:01 PM
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21. OK then - how about Cadbury. |
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I almost said Dr. Giggles since the movie's on TV.
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Tue Jul-15-08 02:09 AM
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60. Not to mention that Jeeves wasn't a butler |
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Wodehouse is a rich mine of good butler names, however - Oakshott, for instance, or Sebastian Beach...
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59. "Was the schvitz to your liking, ese?" |
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32. What kind? A cliche butler? Wise, or bumbling? Or more of a post-modern critique of a butler? |
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Or maybe some trendy slang-slinging revisioning of a butler? Or something that avoids all stereotypes and approaches what a butler might actually resemble in a modern context?
No matter. How about Chapman. Change the first name to fit the character. Giles Chapman, Hector Chapman, Screech Chapman (answers to Screechman or Chaps), or make it a multi-hued hair party babe butler with Amber Chapman (who prefers Amber Chapperson). Or maybe just a common, clock-punching butler on assignment from an agency. Fred Chapman. No, Fred's supposed to be taboo, though it works at times. Rick Chapman.
Or drop the Chapman altogether, I don't care. I need sleep. And booze. Dammit, all those drugs I never did are screwing up my thinking tonight.
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Fri Jul-11-08 11:32 PM
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40. look at the OP again i edited it to give more info |
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He is an old, part Cree indian butler who grew up in England. He is basically unemployable there, and has taken a job in Texas as a marijuana dealer's butler. He didn't do this out of desperation though, he shares a bond with the weed dealer, and deeply respects him as a person for things that happened in their past. The weed dealer is a very informal person, and doesn't like being called "Sir", etc, but the butler insists on it for his own dignity.
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So his father was disinherited for being Cree? Would his father have rejected or tried to cling to his British heritage, out of anger or a desperate longing to be accepted by Daddy, respectively? I'm asking because the father would either have embraced a Cree name, or a British name, and given his son the same type of name, and so his son would have either embraced or rejected that heritage. So maybe a Cree name, or maybe a British name, or maybe some jargon of either. Like, if the father gave him a British name and he rejected the British name, maybe he'd call himself "Cree." Or give himself a name that sounded Native American to him.
See what I'm getting at? Either something like "Cree Chapman," if he hated the British side, or "Nigel Chapman" if he hated the Cree side. Either way, he might have a real name given by his father that he'd reject in favor of a nickname, perhaps misunderstood, of the other heritage. His real name is Nigel Chapman, but he adopted the name Cree Chapman (or an actual Cree name--I don't know any). Or the reverse, where he takes the name Nigel because he hates his Cree side, because of his father.
Sorry, that's more the way I'd approach it than any actual advice. I guess you've already worked out the relationship with dad and gramps and granny.
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Fri Jul-11-08 11:17 PM
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33. Rhett. And frankly my dear, I don't give a damn! |
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Edited on Fri Jul-11-08 11:18 PM by madinmaryland
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Fri Jul-11-08 11:46 PM
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46. The butler is giving madinmaryland his daily colonic |
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Edited on Fri Jul-11-08 11:47 PM by Orrex
When madinmaryland says "I think it would be funny if your name was Rhett."
Unperturbed, the butler replies, "Very good sir, but Orrex already made that joke. Try to stay current."
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Fri Jul-11-08 11:18 PM
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36. hey if you are interested read the edit in my OP |
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Fri Jul-11-08 11:36 PM
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Edited on Fri Jul-11-08 11:37 PM by ikhor
Maybe his grandmother's name was Whitehorse. (good!)
His father's surname has to be british though.
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Fri Jul-11-08 11:35 PM
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42. Dances with Featherduster |
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Fri Jul-11-08 11:54 PM
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50. God Damn you. (part 2) |
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har har you make me laugh, funny guy...
Just trying Elrond's advice. Seems un-Jobycom. But maybe that's good.
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Fri Jul-11-08 11:34 PM
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41. I don't know,but he sounds like a relative. |
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51. James Bondo. Or Bondo Putty? |
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I have informed both of my daughters that they shall name their first male child "Axel."
They have, so far, turned a deaf and scornful ear to my demands... :shrug:
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Fri Jul-11-08 11:56 PM
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52. Maybe it's not a deaf ear, per se. |
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I blame their mother for this... :rofl:
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Well, the flavor says "butler."
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Tue Jul-15-08 01:45 AM
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57. great entries guys and gals....but i finally came up with one: |
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Malcom Comstock is his name.
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Tue Jul-15-08 02:15 AM
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62. Wonderful, excellent, perfect last name. |
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Tue Jul-15-08 02:31 AM
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63. thanks....you don't like Malcom? |
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it sounded ordinary and british enough.?
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Tue Jul-15-08 02:36 AM
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65. Yes, I like that too. |
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Has a good, abrupt rhythym without being jarring, almost like a good British accent.
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I'm very confused. but I'd say James. I always wish I had a butler to drive me around so I could say to him, "Home, James" in a british accent.
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Tue Jul-15-08 02:34 AM
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64. this is a real person? |
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why don't you just use his actual name?
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Tue Jul-15-08 02:50 AM
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Either 'Mr. Pike' or just 'Pike'.
No first name, as it isn't known, nor does he volunteer it.
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69. His own? Things might get confusing otherwise n/t |
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