I'm partial to referring to Nadin as Nads and Will Pitt as Sir William the Pittiful.
nadinbrzezinski was a bitch to name appropriately.
Because her last name suggests vast foreign policy expertise, I called her the "Zbigniew primitive."
But I got tired of that, and went back to referring to her as "nadin," and like Revolution here, adding randomly-typed letters to make her last name.
Then I settled on the
yenta. I still think
yenta is a wonderfully appropriate name for her, but not many here know Yiddish, and all the bad things a
yenta is (an old woman who's a nuisancesome busybody, a snoop, a garrulous gossip).
I was ready to throw in the towel, when someone here suggested "Walter Mitty," which I did use, but it seemed awkward, as Walter Mitty is a man's name.
Then I very briefly used "Baroness Munchausen," after the wife of the notorious liar of the 18th century, but I wasn't sure if many understood the reference.
Remembering her body shape, I thought of a reverse-hourglass figure, and chris_ happily gave me the name for that shape, oblate spheroid. That fits her to a tee, and I still use it.
But not quite as often as I've now used "Vlada Mitty" ("Vladislav" being the Russian version of our "Walter," and while we don't have a female version of "Walter," the Russians do of "Vladislav"--"Vladislava," or nick-name, "Vlada").
I suspect Vlada Mitty's now here to stay.