How many of you..........

How many of you have names for people around your neighborhood or office? I know in my neighborhood alone, we have a hand talker, yard walker, loud talker, neanderthal, funky lady, lobotimized, and of course, a close talk

I've been trying to get a list together of all the "Little Pet Names for Everyone," ever since Jackie Chiles chided Seinfeld for it in "The Finale!"

While the Soup Nazi is perhaps the most well known of all Little Pet Names, other more famous ones are The Close Talker, The Low Talker, The High Talker

IMHO, for someone or something to be called an official Seinfeld "Little Pet Name," it has to be used in an episode, and be used as a direct object. That is, a noun. The little pet name has to be a name! It has to be "She's a __," "He's a __," "You're a __," "I'm a ___" "It's a __," "That's the __." It oughta be a comedy moment, or crux of motivation.

Thus not to be confused with the more common relationship dumping point, although they share many of the same moments, "She had man hands" doesn't count as an official Seinfeld Little Pet Name. Neither does George's not-so-well-known "She's too tan."

So here's my list of more recent LPNs. What else is out there?

episode talent Little Pet Name

Apology    Elaine    "He's a real Sidler!"
Merv Griffin    George    "That man is a Step-Skipper!"
Strongbox    Elaine    "He's Poor."
Buttershave    Jerry    "He's a Time-slot Hit!"
Buttershave    Jerry    "You're a Closet Bania Fan!"
Festivus       George    "She's a Two-face
Bookstore    E/J/E    "And I'm the office..."  "Tina Turner."  "All
right!"
Bookstore    Elaine    "He's an addict."
Bookstore    Elaine    "I'm the office skank."
Bookstore    Elaine    "I'm the office hero."
Frogger    Jerry    "She's a sentence-finisher."
Frogger    Jerry    "Oh, that's the serious-relationship-weekend-place!"

Backwards    Jerry    "So you think it's a non-vite?"
Backwards    Elaine    "It's an un-vitation."
Burning    George    "She's not a me.  I'm a me."

I suggest you also restrict the "LPN" label to *unusual* names. For example, classics like "close-talker" and "sidler" are good LPNs since they're unusual. I don't think your suggestions of "addict, "office skank", "office hero", "poor", etc. are quite as appropriate, since they're not unusual enough to be purely Seinfeldian.

Casserly wrote:

He's a "Mimbo" - Jerry - The Stall You're an "anti-dentite" - Kramer - The Yada Yada He's a "regifter" - Elaine - The Label Maker She's an "Anti-virgin" - Elaine - The "Hipster Doofus" - Elaine - The ?? He's a "Bounder" - Elaine - The Soup

Would Anti-virgin count? - The Virgin ========================== Elaine: ...Was I being anti-virgin? Jerry: No, no, I mean... Elaine: 'Cause I'm not anti-virgin. ... (She leaves)

And how can we ever forget: The Soup Nazi's .... ================================== JERRY: Which one you wanna go to shmoopy? SHEILA: You called me shmoopy. You're a shmoopy. JERRY: You're a shmoopy! SHEILA: You're a shmoopy! JERRY: You're a shmoopy!

"The News Guy(Mike)" wrote:

This is great stuff. Somebody get it all down! :)

The beauty of the little pet names is taking something a putting a twist on it, the fun of putting a brand new name on an innocuous action.

"He's poor" doesn't fit into your definition.

Toss it.

You're right. But she did preface that remark with the "He's not married. He's poor."

Nevertheless, it gets voted off the island.

ArtVandelay2000 wrote:

Does "He's a bad breaker-upper" count?

Martin

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"Bad breaker-upper" works for me. (XXXxxx)