I have no idea where the "Yummy" in
"Yummy Moby" came from; my only justification is that I said "yummy"
a lot when I was a kid, probably more than I should have. I blame
those motivational children's song tapes. Oh boy, I've got joy.
Mon May 22 2000 19:40:
On the silly names for Susanna thread, a bit of prehistoric Leonardonics:
the original names I called Susanna were "Moby", "Yummy Moby", and "Mo" (rare). They all came
from a riddle in a book of dumb jokes given me to pass the time
on a car trip. The question was something along the lines of
"What's large, yellow, and stabbed at from Hell's heart by Captain
Ahab, spat at for hate's sake with his last breath?" Obviously
that wasn't the original question, but there may have been reference
to Melville's masterwork. The answer was "Moby Banana". Susanna
had a nickname (not a name-calling name) "Susanna Banana", so I
started calling her Moby.
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