Charland the Inappropriate

If 60% of my day is spent chasing my rolling head around my work office, then 120% of my day is spent avoiding the chase with other activities such as writing in this blog, and the ever more time consuming readership I have with my personal favorite blogs.

I read A LOT of blogs, an embarrassing amount, really. At any given time I am buried nose deep in at least three books and my Google reader unread list displays numbers close to the payout of the Florida Lottery.

The blogroll to your immediate right can you give you a tiny example of some of my favorite haunts, one of my favorites being the man of the hour- Dad Gone Mad

Not only is DGM a brilliant writer but also retains brilliant writer friends who have been guest blogging on his site for the past couple days while he is on hiatus.

Last night, while catching up on knocking some of those Google lottery numbers down from my reader, I came across one of his guest blogs that left me in stitches.

Rachel Shukert is the author of “Have You No Shame? And Other Regrettable Stories” and in her guest blog here, she details the formula for coming up with your Viking name.

According to Rachel;

"It’s simple: the first syllable of your favorite alcoholic beverage + the first syllable of your hometown, + the word “the” (in the Oscar T. Grouch sense), + your most deplorable character trait. "

For example, I would be a very intimidating

CHARLAND THE INAPPROPRIATE
or even
PILAND THE CONSTANT DEPENDENT

If I only I could determine the more threatening of the two....

Now- I command you ALL to share with me your viking names so that we may create an impenetrable group of warriors, or at the very least, a list to giggle at while slugging back the first syllable.

(I expect full participation from those of you I KNOW read this blog and are comment shy. Don't make me start singling you out by name- because with every call out, an embarrassing story about you will be revealed. Don't mess with Charland.)