Amazon.com Review
Dedicated to his onomastiphile friends, Paul Dickson's collection of names grew out of his "near fetishistic fascination with what persons, places, and things are called." The fruits of his obsession are chapters of odd and interesting "Corporate Names," "Anagrams," "Terms of Endearment," "Streets," "Teams," and "Apples." There's a multitude of baseball names (The Red Rooster, The Rock of Snohomish, and Old Soupbone), names from UFO literature (Calagastia, Laactiped, and EIEEUEE-7 all have a nice ring), and a groaner (the collective noun for puns) of store names (such as the pizza parlor Another One Bites the Crust, and The Summer of Our Discount Tents, which sells camping gear). You may think you're immune, but Dickson makes the name game an addictive disease.
