Dennis and others. Maybe your joke is right on track. I. britanny spearseinsis. I have over 1000 different iris hybrids in my garden. I have frequently given teenagers iris to grow because of the names. A few young men have asked to grow an iris called 'Topples Dancer' and I have given it to them. Many people pick an iris because of the name it has. Sometimes it has special meaning for them, sometimes they just like it. An iris named 'Megan Elizabeth' got one father excited, it was the names of his two daughters, he had to have that iris. After an article appeared in the SF newspaper about my garden and the hours I opened it to share with the public, 4 young men came from San Francisco just to see the iris named 'Baboon Bottom'. People often are looking for an iris they have heard of and never seen, just because the name interested them. A few times young couples have shown up and the boys are mumbling about this not being their idea but their dates wanted to come here, mumble mumble. I always give the males a tablet and pencil and suggest they amuse themselves by making up sentences using only the names of the iris, and I suggest a few. They get so amused at what they come up with it almost becomes a competition among their group and they stay for hours, really enjoying themselves. Not infrequently this leads to questions that require answers where they are really learning something and becoming interested. There is a series of iris named after the Harry Potter characters and I want all of those myself. Some areas of the garden have groupings of iris by subject, such as the Space area (Titan's Glory, Starship Enterprise, Wing Commander, and others) the marriage area (Significant Other, With This Ring, Lovers Lane and others) and the animal area (Chocolate Moose, Gnu Blues, Python's parasol, etc). We get some amusement out of doing this with some of the iris. Carolyn in Los Gatos