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The LRU Crew |
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TEHUTI'S PER ON THE WEB NOTE: Humorous listing of some of the students at my fictional college, Little Rock University. (I named it after the Big Rock nuclear power plant, mixing up the name on accident. It's not in Arkansas.) Last I knew I had a listing of over four hundred students. It included such important characters as Damien, Chernobyl Cat, Katrina Witchita, Amy, Hosoi, DJ Broderick, Puck Benteen...practically everybody of the right age in the D4D storyline...and a lot of people who I dropped from the storyline along the way. The unfinished novel True Believers and its sequels were set in this location, and a lot of the D4D writing focuses around it, the most recent example, to my knowledge, being the unfinished The Scorpio Murders (circa 1996).
Inspiration: A long time back I came across a student listing my older brother had on his wall, dating from his college days; next to each student name it had a funny "occupation" or role that they were supposed to serve at the college. (I remember one was something like "Human Punching Bag.") This amused me so much that I did various versions of it using my own characters, of which this is one. Take note of which names are familiar and which ones are completely unknown. Back then, they were obviously all important to me, but by now most have been cut from my writing. You can get a tiny picture of what they're like based on their roles on this list. A note: This may not be the entire list, as it ends at G; either a page is missing, or it was never completed. If I find a missing part at a later date, I will add it. Date uncertain, but probably from high school (1991-95). Daphie Alsbrooks, snoopy reporter Amy, boy-crazy maniac [Per Note: One of Mya S.'s characters which I fully adopted as my own.] Arin & Erin, sweethearts [Per Note: Mya's characters.] Zippo Barington, disc jockey [Per Note: First name probably taken from a DJ whose program was called "Zippo In The Morning"; I heard this while staying overnight at the UAW Family Education Center where my dad then worked, and until Googling it just now, always believed it was a local broadcast.] Damon Barrymore, UFO buff Beelzebub, professional playboy [Per Note: In a series of improvised audio recordings Mya and I did, he seemed to have a series of girlfriends all named Candy--the "bimbo" seen further down this list.] Phemie Bianca, shiny happy person Denise Black Hawk, American Indian (and proud of it) Laurana Bluegrass, snob Booth Bowen, skirt-chasing pest [Per Note: I think, but am not sure, that Booth--no relation to Chief Bowen of Minot--was one of my very few non-feline/non-canine characters; I believe he was a blackbird of some kind.] Briggs Bradbury, Byron Hughes, & Baxter Goodman, big game hunters D. J. Broderick, babe on campus Ponchitta, Sherita, & Tawana Brushaber, the Brushaber Triplets Babs Burns, aspiring talk show hostess Candy, bimbo Edmond Carnarvon & Fredestaire Carter, archaeologists Chernobyl Cat, nutbag Krakatoa Cat, stupid guy from India [Per Note: Krakatoa, Chernobyl's brother, was not Indian but was raised there. I always depicted him as rather naive and with a stereotypical Indian accent. No racism was intended, yet it was there anyway.] Tunguska Catski, Russian Shriner Monty Conklin, Australian bloke Princess Tiara Conners, "princess" in residence Psyche Cooper, person with PK [Per Note: Psychokinesis.] Idella Cottle, hairdresser Levie Cox, Doomsday guy [Per Note: My first attempt at a schizophrenic character. Pretty stereotyped.] Giselle Cramer, downright depressing person Pigeon Creskins, bird lover Damien, rock 'n' roll detective (no friend of Dice) Ooty Dillinger, person with a gangster name Semi Dirks, big scary person Dibbs Dobermann, achtung baby [Per Note: No relation to Louis Dobermann of the Trench Rats storyline.] Don & Ron, divorced guys [Per Note: Mya's characters.] Dennys Edgett, mooch [Per Note: Inspired by Dennis Blunden from Head Of The Class, I believe.] Anthoney Edison, hummer [Per Note: Mya's character. He hummed a lot.] Percival Erdman, "The Nerdman" Griffin Erkstine, Frankenstein follower Van Ness Etts, witty Scot Buster Fauley, living doorstop Brooke Feldman, person who has a Jewish name but is not a Jew!!! [Per Note: No antisemitism was intended here; I stressed this only because I gave her a Jewish name before knowing it was a Jewish name, when the character I had created was not meant to be Jewish.] Fifina, conceited lady Wink Finkleman, game show host Thya Fionis, headache lady [Per Note: She would always say in this eastern European accent, "Shut up, you give me headache!"] Spangler Fitzgerald, woman's lib scientist Fluffy, exercise-till-you-drop fan [Per Note: The same Fluffy from the King Kuts stories.] Buzz Folensbee, male chauvinist pig Aristotle Fristrom, Socrates Powers, & Plato Teasdale, aspiring philosophers (not) Gandhi, Hare Krishna in the lobby [Per Note: That is actually what he was--a Hare Krishna, hanging out in the lobby. Gandhi, of course, was just his nickname. He would greet people with something like, "May the best of amiable(?) salutations be yours!" I openly admit this guy was a blatant stereotype.] Polywog Gavinno, screwer-upper Sam Gibson, effects of PMS spokeswoman |