Along Comes Jones

On the subject of last names, there are few better than Jones. As someone who's had to come up with a lot of names for a lot of characters, this is something I've given some study to. It's even better than Dufresne because Jones works with virtually anything you could ever think of. Check it out.

It works with regular type names: Amy Jones, Emily Jones, Melissa Jones, Rachel Jones, Samantha Jones, Tabitha Jones, Laura Jones, Bethany Jones, Jillian Jones, Willow Jones, Jessica Jones, Gretchen Jones, Allison Jones.

It works with more fanciful names: Guinevere Jones, Calliope Jones, Magenta Jones, Seraphim Jones, Artemis Jones, Aphrodite Jones, Athena Jones, Callisto Jones, Sylja Jones, Kitten Jones, Cujo Jones.

And it works with more comic-booky character sort of names: Dynamite Jones, Kamakaze Jones, Blaster Jones, Discordia Jones, Delerium Jones, Firefly Jones, Hellcat Jones, Tiamat Jones.

I discovered that a while back while working on my name database project. There is the rare name that doesn't quite ring true, but that last name will get you out of a jam 99% of the time.

I totally did that thing here where a word loses all meaning when you repeat it too many times. It took a few minutes for Jones to look right again so I could finish this post.