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James MacDonald Hudson. Two bays and a prime minister.

On the matter of names that don't sound quite right -- a while back I was reading a Sarah Vowell essay about Canada (apparently, she's a big fan of my former home and non-native land), and I was brought briefly to a dead stop when she mentioned "John MacDonald". After a moment, I realized she meant Sir John A. MacDonald, first prime minister of the Dominion of Canada. North of the 49th Parallel, at least when I was growing up there, he was usually referred to by full name and title or, when being more familiar, "Sir John A."

For a frame of reference, American forum members can imagine variants of Presidential names that might give you a momentary hesitation -- like if John F. Kennedy was maybe called "J. Kennedy", or just "J.F."

A couple of decades back there was a plan afoot to erect a memorial to Jerry Seigel and Joe Shuster in Cleveland. As is often the way with such things, it eventually collapsed under its own weight, as designs became increasingly impractical. At one point I was talking to some of the people involved, and cautioned them that the one thing it SHOULDN'T be was a statue of Superman. There would be no way to capture a face that would satisfy everyone!

(Sadly, what I thought was the absolute BEST design was rejected right out of the gate. That was going to be a group of people in 1930s style clothes looking up at the sky and pointing. What could have been better?)

I just saw this on ENI:

Travel Channel's 'Toy Hunter' To Premiere On Wednesday, August 15th
http://enewsi.com/television/191-22802.html