Dear Readers: Some time ago, I asked readers to send me names of people whose occupations (or professions) suited their names. Did I get a bushel and a peck! Read on:
Dear Abby: In high school, our librarian was named Miss Story and my band teacher was Ray Musicker. There is a dentist on Long Island named Scaler, and a pediatrician named Needles. But our favorite was a podiatrist in a Detroit suburb named Dr. Smelsey.- Chuck and Sadie Sodikoff,
Merrick, N.Y.
Dear Abby: I love telling people that the doctors who delivered my sons were Dr. Miracle and Dr. Blessing.
- Louise Skyler, Portland, Ore.
Dear Abby: I am a Realtor and my name is Sandi Lott. I know another Realtor in Palos Verdes, Calif., named Dusty Rhodes. Also, I used a dentist named Dr. Socket, and my ob-gyn was Dr. Peeke.
- S.L., Kimball, Neb.
Dear Abby: Re. people's names fitting their occupations: Three members of my church are named Angel, Harp and Saint.
- Norma Windsor,
Daytona Beach, Fla.
Dear Abby: Sir Russell Brain and Sir Henry Head were two prominent neurologists in Great Britain in the 1930s.
- Dr. Eugene Kaplan,
Columbia, S.C.
Dear Abby: My dentist in San Francisco is named Les Plack.
- Beth Kuper,
Oakland, Calif.
Dear Abby: In Valdosta, Ga., 12 years ago, I bought a car from someone named Swindle and insured it with the Bill Crook Insurance Agency. (Like "Smuckers," I figured with names like those, they HAD to be good!)
- Virginia T. Love,
Winona, Minn.
Dear Abby: When my father was a patient in the hospital in Palm Springs, Calif., his dietitian was Miss Hunger. I give you my word.
- Judge Henry Lobie,
San Francisco
Dear Abby: Add these to your collection: Joe Yawn, manager of a sleep disorder clinic in Jonesboro, Ark.; a Texas psychiatrist named Paul Looney; a fire inspector in Everett, Wash., named Warren Burns; Ralph Watts, a power official in Des Moines, Iowa; L.R. Speedy, of the State Highway Patrol, Canfield, Ohio; and Joe Pigeon, a Key West, Fla., bird dealer. There is also a chiropractor named Bonebreak, a minister named Lord, a dentist named Brush and an undertaker named Dye.
- Ed Meserve,
Stoughton, Mass.
Dear Abby: There is a reputable banker in my hometown named Don Crook, and Paul Kradel is a popular obstetrician. P.S. I own a travel agency!
- Suzanne B. Tripp,
Fort Smith, Ark.
Dear Abby: Among the people I have known in my lifetime are a bank teller named Mr. Outlaw, a minister named Reverend Paradise, a rabbi named Angel, a hairdresser named Mrs. Brunetti - and let us not forget the coordinator of the People for Perot Campaign in 1992, Orson Swindle.
- David L. Garner,
Dix Hills, N.Y.
Dear Abby: My all-time favorite is Joe Boozer, of Hereford, Texas, who operates - you guessed it - a liquor store.
- Bob Barfield,
Amarillo, Texas
Dear Abby: I grew up in a small town in Pennsylvania. My parents befriended a man who owned and operated a chicken farm. His name was Ed Cluck - and he even looked a little like a chicken. I am a veterinarian.
- J. Katz Canepa,
Brooklyn, N.Y.
Dear Abby: Sgt. Dick Tracy works for the Police Department in Manchester, N.H. He is also involved in the D.A.R.E. program. If you print this, please don't use my name.
- Anonymous
Readers: More tomorrow!
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