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Drone Name Generator
Choose a given name according to the color of the socks you’re wearing right now (or that you last remember wearing).
Black: William
White: Percival
Other neutral: Richard
Navy: Alexander
Red: Wilfred
Orange: Douglas
Yellow: Charles
Green: Aubrey
Blue: Harold
Purple: Hugo
Pink: George
Multicolor: Archibald

Choose a surname according to the first letter of your first name.
A: Spilsby
B: Bungay
C: Biggleswade
D: Hodgkiss
E: Winchcombe
F: Duckworth
G: Dorking
H: Bickerton
I: Tewkesbury
J: Chertsey
K: Kidderminster
L: Weobley
M: Pembridge
N: Pickering
O: Droitwich
P: Wymondham
Q: Cleethorpes
R: Priddy
S: Strood
T: Knebworth
U: Moretonhampstead
V: Mountfitchet
W: Phipps
X: Pevensey
Y: Tissington
Z: Uckfield

If either of the names you chose lends itself well to a funny nickname, extract the funniest syllable and add a syllable ending in –o or –y. Otherwise, choose a nickname corresponding to the day of the month you were born.
1-2: Zippo
3-4: Scrungle
5-6: Figgy
7-8: Fishbowl
9-10: Oddy
11-12: Gumbo
13-14: Nibby
15-16: Banjo
17-18: Pokey
19-20: Thumper
21-22: Mousetrap
23-24: Gabbo
25-26: Faffy
27-28: Stubby
29-31: Batty
Now make your answer to the first question more specific and follow the corresponding instructions.
Following is a diagram with four categories.
Category 1: "Acceptable colors! Ok to wear outside"
Black
White
Gray
Navy blue
Any other neutral or sufficiently muted color (e.g. brown, khaki, mauve)
Light blue
Instructions for this category: Hyphenate your surname from step 2 (in whichever order you prefer) with the surname corresponding to the first letter of the first name of your closest female relative

Category 2: "You're on thin fucking ice"
Red
Other blue
Lavender
Toned down green
Combination of approved colors
Instructions for this category: Hyphenate your surname from step 2 with itself, e.g. Weobley-Weobley

Category 3: "Do you intend to wear those in public, sir?"
Orange
Yellow
Purple
Pale pink
Other green
Instructions for this category: Mash up your surname from step 2 with part of one of the other surnames, e.g. Biggleswade to Bigglesfitchet or Spilsby to Spilsbyton

Category 4: "Have already met with an unfortunate accident involving an iron or staining liquid"
Bright or hot pink
Magenta
Multicolor or rainbow
Instructions for this category: You’ve decided to add a silent letter somewhere in your name (a la Psmith)  or otherwise spell it in a way nobody has ever spelled it, annoying everybody

Behold, the thing I said I was going to do! (x) Nobody asked me to, but I did it anyway. Huzzah

If you don't want to share your actual first initial, you can use a nickname or fictional character instead.

I really tried hard to make these sound as plausible as possible per the way Wodehouse usually names things, so I put an explanation of all my thought processes under the cut.

Also, many of the color category placements are based on speculation and best guesses. If you think you could make a case for the color you're wearing being in another category, you can go ahead and put it there. Category justifications and list of canon references also under the cut.

First names: This is pretty simple, there aren't that many posh British first names. They mostly reuse the same 15 or so over and over. I used this list (x) of canon Drones as my reference to work off of for all names.

Surnames: All of these are either real British surnames (found mostly here) or real British town names (found mostly here). From Googling, this appears to be how Wodehouse created most of his characters' surnames. I generally tried to avoid names that have already been used, with the exception of Phipps, because Plum really seemed to like that one.

When it comes to place names, he tends to be more liberal about making up generically British-sounding shit or swapping out the suffixes of real places. For example, there's a real town called Steeple Bumpstead, but Steeple Bumpleigh is completely fictional. So I believe my instruction above to mash two names together still squares with the Wodehouse school of naming things, Your Honor.

Nicknames: Did you know that it's REALLY hard to come up with random combinations of sounds that a) are funny, b) sound like plausible nicknames, and c) aren't too similar to funny sound combinations that Wodehouse has already used? Because I do now

Most of the Drones just have regular nicknames based on a syllable of their first or last name (Corky, Freddie, Algy, etc.). Rules of hockey nicknames seem to apply. This left me with a fairly small pool of non-name-based nicknames to use as examples. Other categories of nickname include "personal characteristics" (Barmy, Ginger), "random syllable followed by y" (Tuppy, Biffy, Oofy), "random syllables shoved together" (Boko), "food joke or pun" (Stilton, Biscuit), and "random thing" (Bingo). I tried to include nicknames from all of these.

I first assumed "Catsmeat" was just a random compound word, which is where Fishbowl and Mousetrap came from. On further searching I found out that his middle name is Cattermole, putting him more between the "based on real name" and "smushing random syllables" schools of thought. I kept them in partly because I thought they were funny and also because I can easily hear Bertie in my head telling Jeeves all about his old pal Mousetrap's romantic troubles. I imagine there are good stories behind them.

Colors: As stated above, placements are based on memory, conjecture, and cursory searches of the text. Some are pretty easy; Jeeves likes neutral tones. Some seem more context-based or depend on the specific shade. Pajamas seem to follow looser rules for acceptable colors, so I didn't count them.

Clothing items Jeeves has approved: shirts in light blue, mauve, and "dove colored"; brown or blue suit; tie with blue and red domino pattern; brown lounge with faint green twill (The Aunt and the Sluggard); blue suit with thin red stripe (Jeeves and the Chump Cyril)

Clothing items Jeeves has NOT approved: Blue suit with thin red stripe, confusingly; green tie that gives Bertie a bilious air (The Aunt and the Sluggard); "cheerful" pink tie (Jeeves and the Unbidden Guest); purple socks (Jeeves and the Chump Cyril); scarlet cummerbund that Bertie tries to justify by telling Jeeves he saw someone wearing a yellow velvet suit downstairs (Aunt Agatha Makes a Bloomer (Jeeves wasn't swayed)); white mess jacket (Right Ho, Jeeves, but I don't think it was on the basis of color)

Jeeves seems to endorse blue and red on some occasions but not others, according to mysterious Jeeves rules. Conspicuous bright red clothing is obviously verboten (see: cummerbund).

There's little data available on green. He approved it once in the form of an accent color, but vetoed a green tie on another occasion. Might be shade-dependent or only acceptable in small amounts.

Lavender gloves and spats tend to show up when a character is dressed in formal wear. I take this to mean that it's a normal color for such, but possibly not for casual wear.

I couldn't find anything on orange, so I made a guess. I think it's a good guess.

I could only find one instance of Bertie wearing yellow: in "Jeeves in the Springtime" he tells Jeeves to bring his "yellowest shoes" and "the old green Homburg." Jeeves doesn't voice any objection in the text, but there's no way in hell Bertie got away with this.

The only thing I can find on pink (excluding pajamas) is the "cheerful" pink tie mentioned above. I decided to err on the side of conservatism and assume that all pink is a no-go, but it's possible Jeeves would be less hostile toward a lighter shade.

For expediency (ha) and because the clothing power struggles become less frequent as the series progresses, I mostly limited my color search to the short stories.

I cannot just casually make a fun little meme. It has to consume my life and turn into an entire research project.

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