Mr Burns name....

Mar 18, 2002, 9:01 PM ET15 posts by 15 posters
15 posts
David Angelovich

Hi

I've noticed in many episodes that Mr Burns is rarely referred to by his first name (Charles)..... It's always Montogery or Monty. Anyone know why this is?

  • David Angelovich
Rory Molinari↩ David Angelovich

"David Angelovich" writes:

He doesn't use his first name, except by initial: C. Montogomery Burns. Other people who do this sort of thing are G. Gordon Liddy and F. Murray Abraham.

Q: why do people do this? If they don't like their first name, why not just drop it, and not bother with the initial?

Mystified, Rory

Mike McInnis↩ Rory Molinari
I don't know.....

M.P. "Mike" McInnis

"Rory Molinari" wrote in message news:[email]...

why

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R. Hamp Nettles

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On Tue, 19 Mar 2002 04:53:55 GMT, "P. Piggly Hogswine" wrote:

F. Scott Fitzgeraldf

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"MarkhusD" wrote in message news:[email]...

Or like C. Montgomery Bur -- D'oh!

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"P. Piggly Hogswine" wrote in message news:Dvzl8.96130$[email]...

H. Ross Perot F. Lee Bailey

Yours truly, Some bozo

Aaron Hirshberg↩ P. Piggly Hogswine

"P. Piggly Hogswine" wrote in message news:...

Many of President Nixon's toadies did this:

L. Patrick Gray H.R. Haldeman E. Howard Hunt

and there were others.

A. and Space Museum

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DJ MaNiAk↩ David Angelovich

Quite possibly an homage to billionaire lunatic H. Ross Perot.

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Jym Dyer↩ David Angelovich
=v= We learned his name in bits and pieces.  At first he was
just "Mr. Burns," his name was inspired by radiation burns.
Then "Two Cars in Every Garage, Three Eyes on Every Fish" [7F01]
had a bunch of _Citizen_Kane_ references, and his whole name was
spelled out:  "You can't do this to me, I'm Charles Montgomery
Burns!" (originally, "... Charles Foster Kane!").
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=v= I don't recall "Charles" being mentioned              (*******)
any time after that, though.                            (*********)
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Fraggler?↩ Jym Dyer

Jym Dyer wrote in message news:[email]...

I don't recall "Charles" either, but I can think of a few instances of "C.M. Burns" after that.

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Bojan Bugarin↩ David Angelovich

On Tue, 19 Mar 2002 13:01:31 +1100, David Angelovich wrote:

"Hello, my name is Mr. Burns. I believe you have a package for me." "OK, what is your first name?" "I don't know."

if Homer doesn't know why should we? ;-)