A month after a mini-war broke out in Kingston when the government bowed to U.S. pressure to arrest him, alleged drug lord and political power broker Christopher "Dudus" Coke has finally been taken into custody in Jamaica. Coke will likely be extradited to New York (that sort of happens all the time, doesn't it?) where he has been charged with illegal trafficking of drugs and weapons.
Here are a few other good ones from Wikipedia's list of famous aptronyms:
German author and professor of psychiatry Jules Angst
BBC meteorologist Sara Blizzard
Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt
New York Yankees general manager Brian Cashman
Toilet inventor Thomas Crapper
Milwaukee Brewers first-baseman Prince Fielder
Model and actress Megan Fox
Convicted embezzler Bernie Madoff
Founding chairman of the New York Port Authority Eugenius Harvey Outerbridge
Botanist Michael Pollan
Metallica producer Bob Rock
British poet William Wordsworth
No comments:
Post a Comment