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ellenrr

(3,864 posts)
Fri Dec 12, 2014, 06:31 AM Dec 2014

I hate NPR but I love their names

I thot I was the only one who noticed that almost all of the reporters/producers have unusual names.

"Sylvia Poggioli, NPR's Italy correspondent, has had a cow in Cambodia named after her, and a restaurant in Salem, Oregon."

"Jonathan Coulton wrote a song called "Dance Soterios, Dance" about WNYC's Soterios Johnson.Renee Montagne -- with perhaps the most queenly of all NPR names -- has said people always expect her to be taller and blonder."

"A few years ago, a pair of hardcore NPR listeners invited Neda Ulaby to their wedding, sending along a picture of their car's license plate, which reads "OOLABEE." "Apparently they'd developed the creepy habit of referring to each other as 'my little Ulaby.' So I became a mating call," she explained."

it's a cute, tongue-in--cheek article.

http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2013/05/why-do-npr-reporters-have-such-great-names/275493/2/

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