Last month, fellow blogger Estelle Yetti noted the OBX listserv's the thread about professionals' ironic surnames (i.e., Dr. Needles, the pediatrician; B. Lawless, the lawyer; Sparky, the electrician). She posed a valid question: "Dr. Butts, the gastroenterologist (that has to be a joke, right?)" That moniker may or may not be true, but at least it is more innocuous than what the proctologist in a Seinfeld episode named his boat and put on his vanity plate: A--man.
Speaking of doctors, my feet have been bothering me; perhaps I'll follow my ballet teacher’s suggestion and see her podiatrist: Dr. Footer.
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