Showing posts with label pseudonyms. Show all posts
Showing posts with label pseudonyms. Show all posts

Wednesday, December 12, 2012

Pseudo-fun!



What do porn stars and writers have in common?

They use pseudonyms! What did you think I was talking about?

Do you recognize these names?

1)     Anne Rampling
2)     Richard Bachman
3)     Victoria Lucas
4)     Currer Bell
5)     Charles Lutwidge Dodgson
6)     Eric Arthur Blair
7)     Mary Ann Evans
8)     William Sydney Porter
9)     Francois-Marie Arouet
10) David John Moore Cornwell
11) Sanuel Langhorne Clemens
12) Theodore Seuss Geisel
13) Edgar Box
14) Diedrich Nickerbocker

These may be a little more familiar.
1)     Anne Rice
2)     Stephen King
3)     Sylvia Plath
4)     Charlotte Bronte
5)     Lewis Carroll
6)     George Orwell
7)     George Eliot
8)     O. Henry
9)     Voltaire
10) John Le Carre’
11) Mark Twain
12) Dr. Seuss
13) Gore Vidal
14) Washington Irving

They are the same people (match the numbers).

Tell me, have you ever used a pseudonym?

Write soon,
Mary