So at work, people contact me to temporarily secure the services of my company. Sometimes they have funny names, like Mr. Fluck,* an unfortunate middle school teacher. Sometimes the names are so outrageous that surely they made them up. Surely, they are part of an SNL skit and picked the names for hyperbole.
Such was the case of a group I’ll call “The Temple of Nature Loving.” I’m changing the names just enough to make me feel less guilty, but these changes are like calling someone Kitty Face Meowcat instead of their real name, Puppy Nose Lickchop.
The head…shamans? shamen? shapeople? of The Temple of Nature Loving were named, approximately, Dr. Trout Flysabout and Cindi Glowing Stagheart. Ok, bless their hearts and all the religions of the world, odd and less odd, but were they trying to be a New Age Stereotype?
Isn’t this like naming your kid Assface Fartnip and then sending him off to 5th grade recess? Kind of asking for it, isn’t it?
*Mr. Fluck really is his name.