Here’s a thought I just had while putting the tags on this cartoon. Crazy Dog Lady has been her ‘name’ so far. But that probably won’t do, since she’s so much fun these days.
Anyone want to suggest a few names that might have been hers all along and we just don’t know it yet?
She is the infamous Lady of the Doublewide, Lurlene!
Aha about where she got the firearm.
Durnell is not drunk enough for her, and couldn’t possibly achieve that state and stay on this mortal coil. He’s got nice manners though!
I vote for lurlene
Suggestions for real names:
Mary Ann Wells
Dawn Summers
Sophliegh Bigstique
I kinda like ‘Summer Dawn’ as a concept… Hmmm.
animal control gave it cough cough cough
scared of a “lady” uncontrollable cough fit
hehe
She looks like Eunice from the old Carol Burnett show and she is more than a little like a tree seed. I’d say Eunice Pistachio.
Actually, not like the Eunice from the show but more like what Eunice would likely be like today.
Zelda
Or, knowing your penchant for word play: Val Kyrie.
Katrina, after the hurricane.
Buttercup
Barb Arella
Madge….she kinda looks like a Madge…kinda like “It’s art Madge!”
She always seemed like an ‘Edna’ to me.
If she has a southern accent her name should be Carolina or Georgia. Otherwise it needs to be something French to match her colorful world she lives in.
Lurlene Marie Thibideaux
Vernise is kinda special. Gotta be something you can’t say fast. I like the *lene names a lot for that attribute.
gave to me aka she wound up winning the fight with the animal control officers who relized that it would be illegal to tranq Lurlene the crazy dog lady instead of bluto.durnel better start drunk running or she may use that on him.
If she were in an Australian story, instead of American, then her name would undoubtedly be Sheila. And she’d have a slight Kiwi accent.
Otherwise, anything Christian. Mary, for example, or Maria. Or a name with Jo hyphened on the end.
Sheila Mary-Jo Jackson comes to mind.
She kinda reminds me of a girl named Annie.
Polk Salad Annie.
Gators got her Granny.
Her daddy was lazy and no count.
Everybody says it was a shame,
‘Cause her momma was workin’ on a chain gang.
Polk Salad Annie.
Yeah, there was a song. Elvis covered it.
Ooh! I got to see Tony Joe White in person at a club just ’round the block from my house! Might have to work the Polk Salad thing into the name. Good suggestion!!
Dana G. Rous!
you could almost go with another story line just to explain the Polk Salad name and which side of the family it came from….fourth cousin 2x removed…..etc…. or not!
Thing to do is imagine Vickie Lawrence (in her ‘Momma’ role) enounce the name. The longer it takes rolling the consonants, the better. Which is why Lurlene is such a winner…
But they all can’t be named Lurlene!
Greg sent me something with a return addy of Lurlene’s Pet Hotel and Discount Taxidermy. Hence I am a staunch believer that Crazy Dog Lady is really Lurlene finally given a face to match her name. 🙂
Mention of Carol Burnett’s Eunice got me to thinking about the character that she portrayed on ‘All My Children’: Verla Grubbs. While you probably wouldn’t want to use the whole name as is (assuming Greg wants to use a surname), I can *easily* imagine Crazy Dog Lady as Verla.
But if she is to have a surname as well, how about Gruberova? Too classy, you say? Perhaps — for Crazy Dog Lady AS SHE IS. However, I think it fits her highly flattering, imaginary alter ego very well.
Euphonia….although Verla is a good one too.
Lots of good ideas here. I’ve made a short list out of everything. Gonna kick it around over the weekend.
Mary ann Lou
i dunno why but it just seems a good fit