Denis

[Diane CBPFC]

When you chose the names of your characters Roger you must not have know that there would be real people with the same name.

My brother's wife had a brother named Denis Pratt - I only met him a few times, he was a fun, classy guy. His funeral is on Thursday (he must have been around 80).

I wonder if his name in the obits will make people think of our dessert hero?

[Roger Kettle]

At one time, The Daily Star ran something called "The Dennis Pratt Award for Outstanding Stupidity". Its title is self-explanatory and was handed out for various acts of idiocy that made the news. Apparently, it upset the actor and writer Quentin Crisp. His real name was Denis Pratt.

[Diane CBPFC]

Chris Pratt is a big movie star now.

I wonder if the families descended from a bunch of village Pratts such as people with surnames like Miller and Fletcher or if the surname only recently morphed into this meaning.

[Roger Kettle]

Prat is a British expression with, as far as I can see, an unknown origin. It also appears to be another word for "buttocks" or "bottom".
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