Friday, October 31, 2008

Burlesque: Choose kinky name from Dulux chart

Dearest Madame,

As a camp follower to the burlesque scene in London and Manchester (one has been known to take one's clothes off to Loretta Lynn numbers if 50 quid and a few free drinks are on offer) can I suggest a much simpler way of finding one's burlesque name?

1. Go to B&Q / Homebase
2. Go to the paints section
3. Pick out a Dulux colour chart
4. Select your burlesque name from the choice of shades on offer (eg 'Sahara Kisses' 'Cherry Scarlet' 'Dirty Protest')

Why do they ALWAYS name themselves after sweets? A night of burlesque is apt to give one toothache of the soul.

With kindest regards as always.

C x

Darling C,

What a wonderful suggestion. Click here for some ideas from Dulux. See colour bar at the top and click and then roam over the louche shades of double entendre. I especially like Hibiscus Delight, Old Yella and my fave, Cumquat Cream.

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

What's great about the Dulux chart is that you don't know what the name is until you've clicked on the colour. The one I chose turned out to be called Electric Energy - I won't push my luck. I'll stick with that.

I've had huge feedback over my British Museum 'trash alley' protest, with supportive letters since published in The Times.

Duncan F

Anonymous said...

I happily stumbled on Tassel Taupe. How topical!

Dennis
x

Madame Arcati said...

Gimme gimme ... rain rain ...

Anonymous said...

This is great. I'm Modesty half.

Paler than Gold said...

You're so wonderfully witty.