Norma

[nq:1]Cynthia Harrod-Eagles has a character named Kathleen Swilley in her Bill Slider mysteries. In one ("Blood Lines," p. 6) she writes that "because of her machismo (she) was generally known as Norma." 'Splain, please.[/nq]
Norma Swilley, you mean? Where should the explanation start, exactly? It could take a 'normous amount of time.

rzed

[nq:2]Cynthia Harrod-Eagles has a character named Kathleen Swilley in her ... "because of her machismo (she) was generally known as Norma."[/nq]
Is that E. Norma. Swilley? Were her pants tight?

[nq:1]Is that E. Norma. Swilley? Were her pants tight?[/nq]
Norma Stitts, surely?
I believe she was friends with the weather girls, Claudia Periods and Lois Temperatures.
DC

[nq:2]Cynthia Harrod-Eagles has a character named Kathleen Swilley in her ... her machismo (she) was generally known as Norma." 'Splain, please.[/nq]
[nq:1]Norma Swilley, you mean? Where should the explanation start, exactly? It could take a 'normous amount of time.[/nq]
Sigh. I've said it before, I'll say it again I never, ever, ever get puns. Thanks.

SML

[nq:2]Norma Swilley, you mean? Where should the explanation start, exactly? It could take a 'normous amount of time.[/nq]
[nq:1]Sigh. I've said it before, I'll say it again I never, ever, ever get puns. Thanks.[/nq]
Perhaps what you didn't get was not the pun, but the allusion to the pun.

I didn't get it either, until someone posted the pun that the name alluded to.

Then

[nq:2]Sigh. I've said it before, I'll say it again I never, ever, ever get puns. Thanks.[/nq]
[nq:1]Perhaps what you didn't get was not the pun, but the allusion to the pun. I didn't get it either, ... can't get the pun (or not get it) until you see it. Actually, it's more rhyming slang than a pun.[/nq]
But the imagination riots a bit, doesn't it? "You seen Kate's *****?"

Mike.