Tuckerization is the use of a real person’s name as a character name, place name, or equipment name in a story. Its also spellt tuckerisation – I suspect that us Brits anglicising it. Its not unlike a company paying an author to include their name in a piece of fiction or product placement in a film.<\/p>\n
If you’re famous like David Beckham then (forgetting about the use of celebrity names- akin to committing suicide legally and financially) then the Tuckerized name would be recognisable, but my name David Bolton- well theres loads of us out there so how do you know which it is? So I guess I won’t be looking for to be tuckerised anytime soon. <\/p>\n
Now the point about Tuckerization is that it only includes the name, not appearance or other characteristics of the named individual. Why not go the extra step and put a real person in. Hey we could call that Boltonization ( Boltonisation!) rather than the reference to John Bolton\/UN.<\/p>\n
The alien female purred as she approached David. “You may think of yourself as fat, bespectacled, asthmatic and ugly, David” she whispered, as her 4 tentacles unbuttoned his shirt. “But that is on your world and in my world you are what every ur-woman desires as their partner (and dinner).” She stepped out of her skin and …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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