Tressanela Noosepickle Where Are You Now?

About the Book

We all enjoy coming across an unusual or humorous name of a person. Tressanela Noosepickle Where Are You Now? treats this subject chapter by chapter from various perspectives. For example, wacky names given by overzealous parents after the birth of a baby; names that eerily relate to the owner's occupation; names that most certainly have to be one-of-a-kind, and much more.

The final chapter entitled "On the Naughty Side" gives the reader a look at some people's names that are highly suggestive in the idiom of today.

The book consists of 155 pages and is written in a personal, humorous style with which the author shares his thoughts with the reader. The author has been a collector of off-beat names (he calls himself an "onomatomaniac") and anecdotes involving same for many years.

Tressanela Noosepickle Where Are You Now? is a page-turner and is surely entertaining to people who particularly get a kick out of encountering an odd name, which includes just about all of us.

About the Author

Bruce Rutherford was born in Chicago, Illinois and lived there until age eight when his parents moved to the western suburb, Downers Grove. This has been his hometown ever since.

He attended De Pauw University in Greencastle, Indiana and North Central College in Naperville, Illinois where he graduated. A two-year stint in the U.S Army was sandwiched in between. He eventually found himself in the insurance business and was a family agent for thirty-four years until he retired in 2004.