After months of tossing out names, and then tossing them out again, Christian and I were watching one of our favorite old Marilyn Monroe movies, Some Like It Hot. It's the one where Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon are musicians (tenor sax and bass fiddle, to be exact) on the lam from a bunch of mobsters after witnessing a shootout. They decide to dress in drag, call themselves Josephine and Geraldine, and join a girl's band playing for three weeks down in Florida. As they are about to board the train the band conductor, "Sweet Sue", asks them their names. Tony Curtis replies in a marvellous tenor falsetto that his name is Josephine. At which point Jack Lemmon pipes up and says, "I'm Daphne!" and Tony Curtis goes, "hmmm?!"
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