Monday 22 January 2007

Various Artists - Rocky Balboa: The Best Of Rocky

"Featuring such classic Rocky tracks as 'Eye Of The Tiger' and..."

Actually there's 'Gonna Fly Now' as well, which is the Rocky theme that everyone would recognise. There's also 'Gonna Fly Now (remix)'.

The only thing I really know about Rocky is that his trainer's played by Burgess Meredith. Burgess Meredith was The Penguin in the original Batman TV series. He's also one of the finest examples of a surname for a first name in the history of surnames as first names.

Sure, Harrison Ford and Taylor Dayne can lay claim, but you're not shifting Burgess from the top of the pile. He's untouchable. Burgess couldn't be anything but a surname, except in the eyes of Mrs Meredith.

One day there'll come a child who'll take his title. It would have to be two hyphenated surnames to surpass Burgess though. Stallone could be one half. What could be the other half? Balboa-Stallone would be just about the worst first name anyone's ever had, but it's not immediately, strikingly, palpably a pair of surnames.

Rambo-Stallone? I can't believe that there's anyone wandering around with the surname Rambo. If they do, I pity them.

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