Clearly, I am the correspondent from the Italian/Slovenian border

[tzikeh]

What is your NPR name?

Add your middle initial to your first name, and then use the name of the smallest foreign town you've ever visited as your last name. Your first name cannot be scrambled up; the letters have to remain in their regular order.

Lucky for me, I have three middle initials. ;)

Ready?

This is Jesinsimcia Mugnano del Cardinale, reporting from Plavje for All Things Considered.

What's yours?

Comments

[jackiekjono.livejournal.com]

Jamacqueline Penzance?

[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

I like it!

[jackiekjono.livejournal.com]

BTW - Totally off topic but, I've been listening to this podcast that I absolutely love. I strongly suspect that you would love these guys even more.

http://www.theskepticsguide.org/

[ratcreature]

Why do these things never work for people without middle names? Also, people seriously remember the smallest towns they were in ever? I suppose my memory must be especially bad. I haven't even travelled to lots of places and still couldn't say.

[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

People with middle names actually have the best luck, because you get three letters to play with: NMI -- No Middle Initial.

And I certainly remember Mugnano del Cardinale -- it was a street. Basically. Made of dirt, with some houses, and a butcher's shop. In the middle of the mountains of central Italy.

Boy, was it small.

[basingstoke.livejournal.com]

Well, I've only ever been to like five cities outside the US. Much easier if you're in the US, which stretches for thousands of miles in every direction.

Two were Moscow and St Petersburg, the other two were Toronto and Victoria, so my name would be:

Mbasingtoke Sergeevny Posad!

[ratcreature]

I think a major problem is that a couple of my vacations to foreign countries were road trips. Like, one was across the US for two months in a cross country trip.

[basingstoke.livejournal.com]

Hmmm. Yes. So, I suggest you just take the best town name you've ever heard of, like King of Prussia, Truth or Consequences, or Runamukluk.

[reginagiraffe]

Reginah Bamako

[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

That could absolutely be an NPR reporter's name.

[middlemarcher.livejournal.com]

Rajchael Vårgårda

[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

LOVE. IT.

Top this.

[katrimae.livejournal.com]

Kamtrina Cheddar.

Re: Top this.

[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

Wow. I... don't think I can.

Re: Top this.

[katrimae.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure what kind of correspondent I'd be with that name - I'd probably get stuck with the quirky human interest crap. Maybe I should angle for a promotion to The Splendid Table.

[sanj.livejournal.com]

J'sandra Granby.

(Seriously, where would YOU put that J?)

[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

Well, you could go with Sandraj, if you wanted to be of Indian descent... though somebody married a Brit. Which makes sense.

[klia.livejournal.com]

Mjill Kuranda.

[ellen-fremedon.livejournal.com]

Evelyne St. Radegund.

[txvoodoo.livejournal.com]

DeLisa Hondaribbi, from the Basque Hills ;)

[keiko-kirin.livejournal.com]

Kray Portree.

[theodosia.livejournal.com]

Constancce Bahia de los Angeles

Clearly, having gone on an Earthwatch expedition to the Sea of Cortez to census insects and other critters on little islands does help with my NPR credentials!

[hubbit.livejournal.com]

Mischabel Olaton.

Disclaimers: I have two middle initials. And I've never been outside the US, so instead I substituted a literal wide spot in the road in Kentucky where very distant relations reside.

[carla-scribbles.livejournal.com]

Reposted for honestly, check Wikipedia before going with what you remember as where your camp counselor said you were going on a bus trip:

Emkma Vík í Mýrdal.

[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

Dude that is *so* a correspondent for NPR. Awesome!

[carla-scribbles.livejournal.com]

Well, I do own two pairs of Birkenstocks?

(Apparently, almost no one calls it by the full name -- it's just Vík on maps -- but fuck that noise, I can haz syllables.)