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Thu 10 Nov, 2005 09:28 am
OK, this is trivial, but so what.
Looking for the name of a well-known burgundy-drinking lush.
We have a new "old" car, burgundy/maroon color.
New car needs a name - based on the color.
An arts reference would be just the thing - like someone famous for drinking Burgundy wine, or any name that somehow references "Burgundy". A character from a play, movie, opera, whatever.
Hmmm. Possibly a character that references "Maroon", as in one who was marooned on an island... Was that Jody Folster in "Marooned", from the mid-80's or so?? That reference gets a bit obtuse. Maybe I should go with the original idea, a famous lush.
Hopefully a character thats well-known enough so that people will make the connection to the car's color easily.
I could go with a man's or woman's name - but in deference to other familty members' views on this, I can really only select a woman's or girl's name.
Thanks!
Hi bruce, welcome to a2k.
I don't have any bright ideas for famous wine drinkers, but I thought I'd bump up your topic and maybe someone else will think of something.
Have you thought about naming the car Chianti or Sangria or some such?
Orson Wells was the spokesman for.... Gallo? wines for a bit. I don't remember a specific variety of grape that he endorsed though.
Still "Orson" is a nice name.
I found these quotes about burgundy:
It's a naive domestic Burgundy without any breeding, but I think you'll be amused by its presumption.
James Thurber 1894 - 1961
Caption for cartoon in The New Yorker
... the odour of Burgundy, and the smell of French sauces, and the sight of clean napkins and long loaves, knocked as a very welcome visitor at the door of our inner man.
Jerome K. Jerome
Three Men in a Boat
If I remember correctly, Keats (I believe that's who it was) wrote a line that went (I'll have to paraphrase here... memory is going)
Souls of poets dead and gone,
What Elysium have ye known,
Happy field or mossy cavern,
Choicer than the Mermaid Tavern?
Have ye tippled drink more fine
Than mine host's Canary wine?
So why not call the car the Mermaid Tavern?
Gus - Charles Bukowski, who was a famous drinker of Burgundy wines, wrote:
- Notes of a Dirty Old Man
:wink:
Bukowski had an extreme imagination.
Unfortunately, not enough to give us the color of the car...
gustavratzenhofer wrote:If I remember correctly, Keats (I believe that's who it was) wrote a line that went (I'll have to paraphrase here... memory is going)
Souls of poets dead and gone,
What Elysium have ye known,
Happy field or mossy cavern,
Choicer than the Mermaid Tavern?
Have ye tippled drink more fine
Than mine host's Canary wine?
So why not call the car the Mermaid Tavern?
Ahh, who would have thought that you could actually drive around in a tavern?? Do DWI / DUI laws apply?? It has a ring, I have to grant that.
Fictional character - Rumpole of the Bailey (John Mortimer). Rumpole could often be found at Pomeroy's quaffing what he called "claret"
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