Radio Sweethearts

Over on the Monkey See blog, a complete and total genius has come up with an NPR name meme.

I’ve always wanted to know where some of the worldly and vaguely foreign sounding names of NPR correspondents came from, and now there’s a simple formula. Take the first letter of your middle name, insert it into your first name at random and take the name of the smallest foreign town you’ve visited as your last name.

That makes me Keerry Lethbridge. Matthew is Mbatthew Rio Negro.

Plenty of people on twitter are coming up with their own, and they’re hilarious.

So, what’s your NPR name? If you work at NPR, is this how you got your reporter name?

(Also, can I mention how great it is that NPR has a sense of humor about themselves?)