Saturday, October 3, 2026

Fantastic Names From The Past: 1980-81 Los Gatos, California Edition

 The kids from Raymond J. Fisher Junior High have moved on to high school, and have mixed and mingled with a bunch of other fantastically-named folk. These unclude...


Erik Twist

Ross Wroblewski

Vikki Sweet

Bartholomew Stafford

Bus White

Sir Peter Philip Bauer XIV

Bridgett C Beaver

Dawn Kori Bumpass

Steven Barclay Slade I

Paul Norbert Maximilian Gerhardt

Fritz John Wach

Vance Venezio

Rhett Bewtley

Yancie Changras

Kirk Ryan Demorest

Elisabeth Bosomworth

Martien Houtkooper

Terry Tanenbaum

Hage Van Dijk

Birgit Bartyzel

Garland Yee

Jill Kilty

Joan Dallojacono

Vince Diffenderfer

Natalie Lingo

Nacho Orduno

Faye Phearman

Shirley Zurth

Lilo Campeau

Everett Eaves

Rhian Grespan

Mitchell Madrigal

Kitten Marasovich

Marnee Opper

Tina Simoni

Sean Splaine

Kitten Vettorel

Thleen Blood


And here are my choices for the Top 10 Fantastic Names Of 1981...


10. Todd Tweedy

9. Trevlene Blood

8. Leah Lagalante

7. Kiki Powers

6.  Sudan Sharples

5. Gene Zweigle

4. Wendeline Houtkooper

3. Chip Bull

2. Gif Ball

1. Thanakorn Chamnart

And finally, The Most UNfantastic Name, which this time around goes to...

Durt Bumpass

I imagine the "D" was supposed to be a "B", but even so...