[ULTIMATE COMPILATION] Meanings behind ALL RPDR Queens' drag names and their drag mothers
Season 1
Akashia - The name is from the vampire Akasha from the movie Queen of the Damned based on the novel by Anne Rice played by Aaliyah. She likes vampires and has dressed up as Akasha for Halloween.
BeBe Zahara Benet - She always loved the name BeBe, so BeBe Benet just came in her mind. The name is very French, fashion forward, and dynamic. She then wants something exotic which would tie her with her roots and flowed well. After going through names, she decided to go with Zahara.
Jade - She didn’t have a name for her first show, so the name Jennifer was offered due to her love for Jennifer Lopez. She thought it was too common and decided to shorten to Jay. The show director mispronounced it as Jade, which she liked it better. Later Facebook required a last name, so she used her real last name and now goes by Jade Sotomayor.
Nina Flowers - First performed under her real name Jorge Flores and then changed to a more feminine name when she entered her first pageant Miss Puerto Rico Continental 1999. Nina is from Nina Hagen, her favorite rock star, while Flowers is her last name in Spanish. She thought Nina Flowers sounded funny but possessed a lot of charisma at the same time. Her drag mother is Alex Soto.
Ongina - Her friend suggested using her middle name Ong, which is her mom’s maiden name. She then put Ong with the “last three letters of a certain kind of –ina” and formed Ongina. At first she came up with Pek Pek Galore (Pek Pek means vagina in Tagalog and used that name for around 1-2 years before her 21st birthday when she became Ongina) and Ryana. Her drag mother is Gretchen from Lucky Cheng’s.
Rebecca Glasscock - Rebecca is her best friend’s name. She used to read out loud to practice her English while her drag mother Misty Eyez drives. She was reading a gay magazine’s pen pal section and said this guy is perfect for Misty Eyez “6’ 4”, blonde hair, blue eyes, muscular, tattoos, kind, considerate, compassionate you can write me at inmate number…” and his last name was Glasscock. They both thought that to be so amazing and decided to make it her drag name. She first went by the name Roxy Lame.
Shannel - The name is from her first Siamese cat which was named Shannel. She thought that it was suiting, sexy, and sensual.
Tammie Brown - She wanted to use her real name as Keith Glen Schubert or Glen Schubert like RuPaul. But the queens in Corpus Christi, Texas said she needed a drag name. One night she and her friend were doing a three way call and playing telephone tricks to a boy she liked. The caller ID said Bob Brown (her friend’s stepdad’s name) when he answered, “Bob Brown? You’re not Bob Brown! You’re Keith Glen!” She answered, “Well I can change my name to be Tammie Brown!” When she was younger, she loved Tina Turner and the movie Tootsie so much she wanted to be Tootsie Turner. She also thought of Esmeralda after hearing it from someone.
Victoria “PorkChop” Parker - She started as Victoria René Parker since a pageant girl had to have three names in the 80s and 90s. Her given name is Victor, so it was natural for her drag name to be Victoria. Parker is from a former Miss North Carolina Joni Bennett Parker. She got PorkChop from making good fried pork chops and her drag mother Carmella Marcella Garcia saying, “She loves my fried pork chops.”
Season 2
Jessica Wild - She wanted a name that is sexy and easy to remember. Jessica is the name of one of her best friends in high school and she thinks is a sexy name. Wild is used to describe her character’s personality and performance. She said, “I am a shy guy and I am wild on stage.”
Jujubee - Her drag mother Karisma Geneva Jackson-Tae proclaimed that Jujubee will be her name when she did an amateur competition and won. It turned out to be the fruit jujube. She didn’t like the name, but kept it because of its significance to Karisma.
Morgan McMichaels - Since she is from Scotland, Morgan is from Morgan le Fay, the queen of the fairies in Arthurian legend. Morgan can also be a name for a boy or girl. McMichaels came later from her drag mother Chad Michaels and drag father Adam Magee (Chad’s partner), but she wanted to keep it Scottish so she spelled it as McMichaels.
Mystique Summers Madison - She started out as Mystique for three years because she always loved X-Men and since she is transforming from a boy to a girl, she wanted to be a shapeshifter like Mystique. She became Mystique Summers when she did her first pageant under her drag mother Genie Summers. Summers is from Buffy The Vampire Slayer. She then realized the linkage to X-Men with Scott Summers. Madison is from one of her friends in Texas. But she has now gone back to just Mystique Summers, because it sounds better and quicker to say the name.
Nicole Paige Brooks - She started as Nicole Page (initial spelling) with Porsha as her first drag mother. Nicole is the name of a girl in high school she had a crush on and dated (but she just really liked her hair). Page is from Bettie Page as she thinks of herself as a dirty housewife that you can always see through the window but really can’t ever have. Brooks was added later when she moved to Atlanta from her drag mother Shawnna Brooks.
Pandora Boxx - She was into Greek mythology during the time she started doing drag. Pandora was the first woman created and she opened the forbidden box that let out all the world’s evils leaving only man’s hope inside. She liked the story and how the name plays with the idea that you don’t know what to expect. She is a huge Madonna fan and both names have the same amount of letters ending with an A. The extra 'x' in Boxx is for the "X factor".Her middle drag name is Olivia in honor of Olivia Newton-John and so her initials could be P.O. Boxx. She doesn’t really think she has a drag mother and considers Darienne Lake rather like her adoptive mother.
Raven - She used to be a gogo boy and went by the name of Phoenix, because she likes winged creatures. When she started doing drag she was deciding whether to be Raven or Phoenix. Her friends suggested Raven is more unique and androgynous. She also didn’t want a female name where people would call her when she is out of drag in the public.
Sahara Davenport - She started as Sahara Simone. The name Sahara was inspired by one of her favorite performers, Sierra Nicole Andrews. She thought “I’m black, so I should be the African one, Sahara.” She also loved Simone, Nina Simone’s daughter, who played Mimi in Rent on the first national tour. She then became a part of a drag family with Kelexis Davenport as her drag mother which she changed her last name to. Davenport came from Divine’s role as Dawn Davenport in Female Trouble.
Sonique - Her friends first game her the name Heidi, but she didn't like it too much. She also used the name Miss Behave. The name Sonique comes from a British artist name Sonique. She likes the name because it sounds very powerful like sonic powers. She also wanted a one word drag name. Her drag mother is The Goddess Raven.
Tatianna - She was going through all of her CD collection and found an old school Tatyana Ali CD from The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. She thought it sounded cute.
Tyra Sanchez - Her full drag name is Tyra-Symoné Sanchez. Tyra means the God of Battle and came from her niece’s name Tyra Nicole. She was born premature and was an inspiration since she fought for her life. Symoné is from Raven Symoné who she admires. Sanchez is from her drag family with Angelica Sanchez as her drag mother.
Season 3
Alexis Mateo - Alexis Mateo is her given name. She figured if she was called by some other name she wouldn’t respond.
Carmen Carrera - Carmen is her birth mother’s name. Carrera is her drag family name with Angela Carrera as her drag mother.
Delta Work - A local bar where she used to go watch the queens were doing a ‘Ladies of the 80s’ night, and they were trying to do the ladies from Designing Women. There was nobody that could do Delta Burke’s character Suzanne Sugarbaker, because they didn’t have a big girl. So she did and the queens said that she totally looked like Delta Burke. Then one queen said, “You better work Delta! Screw Delta Burke! You’re Delta Work!” She considers Raja as one of her drag mothers.
India Ferrah - She started with Jenna Michaels, but thought it didn’t fit her at all. There’s also a queen with a name starting with Jenna and another one ending with Michaels in Roanoke, Virginia (where she’s originally from). She then got a comedy name of Shanita Dickiner. She didn’t want to be a comedy queen, but very diva and high glam. Her first drag mother Montana St. Clair then gave her the name India Ferrah. Her new drag mother is Kristina Kelly.
Manila Luzon - Growing up in Minnesota, most of the people she knew were white and most of the drag queens were either white or black. She thought that bringing Asian heritage to her drag would be fun. She wanted to celebrate her Filipino heritage so she chose Manila, which is the capital of the Philippines where her mother was born. She thinks it sounded pretty. She also liked the idea that “man” was in the name, and Manila has the same number of syllables as Madonna. Luzon is the island that Manila is located on.
Mariah Paris Balenciaga - Mariah was given to her by the father of the House of Armani who recruited her in the ballroom scene. It rhymes with her boy name Elijah so it was easy for her to remember. She was Mariah Armani and then Mariah Balenciaga when she became one of the founding members of the House of Balenciaga. Paris is from her drag family name.
Mimi Imfurst - Her first drag name during high school was Delilah DeMistra inspired by Hedy Lamarr’s character in Samson and Delilah. She liked DeMistra as a play on mistress. When she moved to New York, there was another drag queen named Delilah so she had to change it. She wanted her name to be a pun that is funny. She narrowed down to Heidi Schlong, Wilma Shitstink, Rhoda Dickins, Dyna Cancer, and Mimi Imfurst. Her friend Portia, who was the sidekick on The Wanda Sykes Show said, “If you don’t pick Mimi Imfurst, you’re an idiot.” Her drag mother is Sweetie that played Olestra in Starrbooty.
Phoenix - Phoenix is a mythological bird that rises from the ashes and recreates itself. She thinks the name is perfect for the type of drag she does as she is always recreating her look and pushing herself to the next level. She also sees herself in drag to be very different from her boy self. She also has a fiery personality. Her drag mother is Nicole Paige Brooks.
Raja - Her friend who was working at Disneyland helped choose the name. The movie Aladdin came out and the tiger was named Raja. In Indonesia Raja means king and she was also born in the Year of the Tiger. She thought it would be ironic that she was a drag queen named “King”. It was also the 90s so she wanted a singular name like Madonna or Cher. Raja Gemini (her sign) came later when her drag daughter made her Facebook Page and required a last name. She considers Viva Sex to be her drag mother.
Shangela Laquifa Wadley - She was choreographing Beyoncé’s Single Ladies for three guys doing a charity event. One of the guys got sick the night before the show and her friends asked her to fill in. She was running late for the show and they called to ask for her drag name. She didn’t have one and thinking that it’s going to be a one-time thing, said to just put down anything. Her friend Brad who had worked in telemarketing came up with the name. One time he called this lady and cannot get her name right. The lady said, “Let me tell you something, my name is Shangela Laquifa Wadley and don’t you forget it!” Her drag mother is Alyssa Edwards.
Stacy Layne Matthews - Back in high school she used the name Stacy when talking to guys on the sex hotline and so that name stuck. Matthews came from her middle name Matthew. When she started doing drag her name was Stacy Matthews, but not until when she got on to the show she made a joke to RuPaul and said her name should have been Stacy Layne Bryant. People then just started calling her Stacy Layne Matthews and she liked it. Her drag mother is Chasity Nichols. Stacy Layne Bryant Matthews Lattisaw Q is not her drag name but what RuPaul said in Episode 6. Lane Bryant is a chain of plus-size clothing stores. Stacy Lattisaw and Stacey Q are singers.
Venus D-Lite - She was young and poor when she started doing drag. She didn’t have computer or internet, so she would go to Kinkos to check her e-mail. “And Venus was her name…” from the song Venus by Bananarama was on the radio and she thought that would be a very cool name. She went home to her boyfriend and he help came up with the last name D-Lite.
Yara Sofia - The dance academy she used to work for produced a funny beauty pageant, and she was Miss Cuba. She was told to have a tropical Latin name so she was going to be Yara Sofia Carrasquillo. She chose Yara from her high school friend that was also a dancer who had beautiful legs. She used to wear heels before doing drag and everyone told her she had beautiful legs like her friend. Her friend chose her last name for her.
Season 4
Alisa Summers - She was a huge fan of TLC and her favorite was Lisa “Left Eye” Lopes. Her drag mother Jocelyn Summers suggested adding an ‘A’ to Lisa, and she liked the way Alisa sounded. She also took her drag mother’s last name.
Chad Michaels - Her name used to be Brigitte Love. She did an impersonation of Annie Lennox but people said she looked like Brigitte Nielsen. She always felt that she didn’t identify with a female name. She moved to Las Vegas in 1997 to work with La Cage, and the show required each entertainer to be introduced at the end of the show by their male name. Chad Michael is her real first and middle name, and she added ‘s’ for good measure. She didn’t want to be Chad Michael like George Michael. The name just stuck and she thinks it’s more appealing to a larger market like ‘Chad Michaels as Cher’. Hunter is her drag mother.
DiDa Ritz - She's a big fan of old school Hollywood glamor actresses like Grace Kelly and Audrey Hepburn, so she wanted a classic glamorous name that would roll off the tongue and memorable. She loves Dita Von Teese and the Ritz Carlton is her favorite hotel, so she put the two names together. Tajma Hall is her drag mother.
Jiggly Caliente - She started off with a very generic girl name of Victoria (she forgot the last name) because she loved Victoria Beckham. With the advice of another drag queen Laritza Dumont to make her name more memorable she changed to Jiggly Puff because she thought she was cute and round like the Pokémon character. But Laritza decided that she wasn’t comical and since she’s a sexy big bitch put “Caliente” for “hot” in Spanish instead. Her drag mother is Chevelle Brooks.
Kenya Michaels - Kenya is from the African country and Michaels is in honor of the choreographer Mia Michaels. She was a dance teacher in Puerto Rico and loves Mia Michaels.
Lashauwn Beyond - Lashauwn is her little sister’s middle name. Beyond means to always go the extra mile and strive for perfection. She also describes her drag itself as being big, beyond, and larger than life.
Latrice Royale - Latrice was elementary school friend who was a beautiful black girl that had gorgeous wavy hair. When she signed up for her first show her friend gave the last name Royale because he said she was “thick and chocolaty like fudge royale”.
Madame LaQueer - Madame was a character from a Telemundo soap opera in the 80s performed by a Puerto Rican actress who was friends with her family. The character was the villain and the head of a whore house. She always wanted to be a mistress of mischief. Queer is from her favorite TV show, Queer as Folk, and it also has a double meaning. Queer is another word for gay and it also means weird. She wanted a name that didn’t project a faithful female image but rather a man that dresses up like one. La was added later to make it sound more beautiful in French.
Milan - In college during Halloween she and her friends got in drag and picked names. They were all in model mode and she picked Milan as she thought that is where all the big models go to. She also wanted a name that was androgynous, ambiguous, and original. She now goes by Dwayne Milan as she was inspired by Chad Michaels and Willam Belli who kept their real names. Her drag mother is Nicole Roberts.
Phi Phi O’Hara - She started as Phoenix Mathews. As a comic book buff, Phoenix from X-Men is the dream person she wants to be. She related to her as the person she has developed into today has risen from the bad times during her childhood. Her friends in Texas also said that she brought fire when she performs on the stage. Mathews is from Tersa Mathews. She then changed to Phoenix O’Hara after her drag mother Asia O’Hara. When she went on RuPaul’s Drag Race, there was already Phoenix on Season 3. The show asked what nickname she goes by, and when she moved to Chicago DiDa Ritz called her by many nicknames including Phi Phi. She thinks Phi Phi O’Hara sounds feminine and fierce.
Sharon Needles - As a teenager, she would move from city to city and changed her name every time including Penelope Pumpkin, Pixie Stix, Franky Freeclinic, Randy Retarded, and Nixon Cuts. She was always interested in the play with word names. She and her brother would get stoned and try to come up with the most offensive drag names. It was a toss-up between Crystal Meth and Sharon Needles. Sharon is like your mom’s name—it’s so boring and unglamorous. When you pair it with Needles, it’s funny and has a great ring to it. The statement of Sharon Needles is horribly crass with the tie to drugs and diseases. Back then there was no Google, so there wasn’t a way of knowing how many other queens came up with the same name. She always says Sharon Needles is like a governor—there’s one in every state, but she’s the President!
The Princess - Even before she started doing drag, she was a prim and proper gay boy. All of her friends would call her Princess. When it came time to do her first show, she told them to call her Princess when she was about to go on stage. A few years into performing she noticed the announcers at drag shows would always put Miss in front of the performer’s name. She thought “Miss Princess” sounded silly and didn’t have the right ring to it, so she added “The” to the name. Due to the way she looks, the name takes on the juxtaposition to what the word “princess” really means.
Willam Belli - When she started out as an actor as part of the Screen Actor's Guild she couldn't get checks made out to a drag name and they wanted the real name to be used. She also believes the best ones don't change their names like RuPaul, Charles Busch, Kevin Aviance, Leigh Bowery, Joey Arias, and Charles Pierce. Her grandfather immigrated to the US from Yugoslavia with the name Filippo, but the nuns of the Catholic school said that Filippo wasn’t a Christian name. Her great grandfather chose William, which was the name of the kid that was in line before them during registration. Their thick accent made them say Villum which turned into Willam. When it came time to name her they spelled it Willam even though it should’ve been Willem. Belli is from her other grandfather who emigrated from the Italian Alps. The word means “beautiful men” in Italian. In some interviews, she said her drag mother is Momma who was Bob Mackie's rental studio manager.1,2 In other interviews she said that she doesn’t have a drag mother.3,4
Season 5
Alaska Thunderfuck 5000 - She was really stoned on marijuana with friends in college, and her friends were talking about the different strains that they had smoked in Amsterdam. Someone brought up Alaskan Thunderfuck and she decided that was going to be her drag name. She considers Jer Ber Jones to be her drag mother.
Alyssa Edwards - She grew up in a large family where everyone all had to agree upon a TV show to watch, and Who’s the Boss was the one. She thought if she ever was a girl she would be Alyssa Milano. Her last name came from her drag mother Laken Edwards.
Coco Montrese - Her drag mother Mokha Montrese named her Coco Montrese. Coco almost named herself Paris.
Detox - She called herself Dita when she first started doing drag, because she loved Madonna’s Erotica phase. But she was really young and would get wasted in clubs all the time and her drag mother Mizz Cori and her friends started calling her Detox. She has always gone as Detox. Detox iCunt was what Jackie Beat started calling her as a joke when she moved to Los Angeles, and it just kind of stuck. However, she doesn’t really use the last name.
Honey Mahogany - She got her drag name from the first two shades of Revlon foundation that she matched her skin tone.
Ivy Winters - She always loved the name Ivy. Her original name when she was doing drag in Michigan was Ivy West which her friend helped pick the last name. Her ex, who was also a drag queen, at the time moved to New York together with her and was changing his drag name. She thought that it was a perfect opportunity to start anew in drag and so using her real last name, changed it to Ivy Winters.
Jade Jolie - Jade originated from her active gamer side playing Mortal Kombat. Jade was the character that has the best body and tits, which she wanted to be like. Jolie is from Angelina Jolie who she felt that she is the queen of all queens. Her drag mother is Dana Douglas.
Jinkx Monsoon - Jinkx was her nickname at an outreach center for gay youth in Portland. It comes from the fact that if there’s one in a million chance that something’s going to go wrong it’s going to happen to her. Monsoon came from Edina Monsoon from Absolutely Fabulous.
Lineysha Sparx - Her name came from a combination of the names of two friends from high school. Whilst Madame LaQueer claiming to be her drag mother1,Lineysha has stated that she does not have a drag mother.2
Monica Beverly Hillz - She started out as Monica Beverly. Monica was the name of an Indian goddess in a Bollywood movie that she loved. Beverly came the movie Pretty Woman as she always had a fascination with Hollywood and wanted to live in Beverly Hills. When she moved to Kentucky she decided to add the Hills and changed the ‘s’ to a ‘z’ because she's Latin and she need to have some spice inside of it.
Penny Tration - Her original name was The Drag Queen Helga because she walked in looking like a Russian gymnast. There was a performer in Oklahoma who had the name trademarked and she was served a cease and desist order. She held a naming contest and the top three were Barb Wire, Penny Tration, and Heidi Salami. She went with Penny Tration because she couldn’t find another queen with the same name on the Internet.
Roxxxy Andrews - Roxxxy is from one of her favorite movies Chicago, and it’s also the name of the first club she ever went to for teen night. The triple ‘x’ came from her friends as they thought she needed a little flair. Andrews is from her drag mother Erica Andrews.
Serena ChaCha - Her friend gave her the name since he said that she was beautiful in drag but also really loud and energetic. It's a combination of a beautiful name with something that speaks of high energy like the cha cha dance. The name would also tell people about her Latino background. She originally wanted to be called Esmeralda but Serena ChaCha translates into both Spanish and English very smoothly.
Vivienne Pinay - Vivienne is named after her southern grandmother. Pinay means “Filipino girl”, as she is half Filipino.
Season 6
Adore Delano - She started off as Violet Valentine. Adore was her brother’s chola friend’s name, where she would go around tagging the name on the walls around the city with spray paint. She really loved that name and used it for her first drag competition. She later added Delano and got it from looking up demonic child names and it was the one that stood out and seem to fit. Delano means “of the night” in Old French (de la nuit), but in other origins it means swamp or anus.
April Carrión - Her name came from the month she was born and her real last name. She kept her last name so she would always make her family proud.Her drag mother is Boanerge Nazario (Bebo) who was the creative director of "The Doll House".
BenDeLaCreme - She was working at a cabaret in Seattle with a different drag name. She did so many things in that cabaret so she changed to BenDeLaCreme. Ben is her real boy name and is a play on “Crème De La Crème” or “The best of the best”. BenDeLaCreme is the best of Ben. She used to perform in Chicago as Teena Angst.
Bianca Del Rio - She was at a bar drunk with a friend in New Orleans. She just started doing drag and her friend said that she needed a name, and mentioned that she reminded her of her good friend named Bianca. Then Del Rio came out of nowhere from her friend also. Bianca thought it was just a good way to explain her eyebrows because she is Latino.
Courtney Act - She and her drag sister Vanity Faire were planning for her drag debut. She wanted to be called Ginger Le Bon, because she wanted to be a red headed, raspy voiced, nightclub singer. Vanity suggested she needed a cute girly name like Courtney. She then slowly said in her Australian accent, “Courtney…Caught in the…Courtney Act!”
Darienne Lake - When she was first painted up, the queens said her name should be Tracy Turnblad because she looked like Ricki Lake from Hairspray. She didn’t want someone else’s name so they suggested Darien Lake—Ricki Lake’s love child with the amusement park between Rochester and Buffalo. She thought, “Well, I am two tons of fun,” and spelled it as Darienne Lake so she wouldn’t get a cease and desist order. She actually thought of using names of eyeshadow colors like Dusty Rose or Heather Sky.
Gia Gunn - Gia came from the supermodel Gia Carangi and the movie Gia starring Angelina Jolie. Her last name came from her drag mother Alyssa Gunn which originated from Project Runway’s Tim Gunn. Her other drag mother is Monica Diva.
Joslyn Fox - She picked Billie Wicked before her first show, as Billie was more of a man’s name and Wicked was a shout out to her Massachusetts roots. Before she went on stage, the other queens insisted that she changes her name. The name that everyone agreed upon was Joslyn. Joslyn happens to be her real last name because the queens knew her as DJ Patrick Allen from her first and middle name. When she was first auditioning for the show they asked for a last name so Fox came later from a friend who saw her walking along a sidewalk and texted saying she looked like a stone cold fox. She liked the way the word describes enigmatic sexiness that can’t be forced. Her drag mother is Lady Sabrina.
Kelly Mantle - Kelly Mantle is her real name. She thought for a split second that her drag name was going to be Brandy Warhol.
Laganja Estranja - She had a drag friend in college by the name of Marqueeta Velveta. She was inspired by the way the name rhymed and also played with the word “marquee”. She is a huge supporter of the legalization of marijuana usage. She wanted a drag name that involves weed, rhyming scheme, and play on words. Thus she is the strange plant – Laganja Estranja. Her drag mother is Alyssa Edwards.
Magnolia Crawford - Her name came from nowhere, and she just made it up. However, she likes to tell people that Magnolia came from the film Steel Magnolias and Crawford is from Joan Crawford and Cindy Crawford.
Milk - When she started doing drag, she took Giselle Peacock from a Latin ballroom dancer that was in a dance series on PBS. She thought the name was ridiculously stupid, but then she wanted a name that was more special and unique. She was with friends at The Cheesecake Factory and they were coming up with silly drag names. Someone threw out Milk for her white creamy skin, and she latched onto it right away. She loved it for three reasons: it was a one-word name, it wasn't a real girl’s name, and it has a lot of puns surrounding it.
Trinity Kardashian Bonet - Her little sister said she looked like Trinity from The Matrix. She loves the Kardashian family as she thinks they are fashion forward. Her last name is from Jasmine Bonet, since she idolized her. Her drag mother is Byanka Monroe.
Vivacious - She got her name from her second grade teacher in Jamaica. Vivacious best represents who she is—full of life and full of energy. When she performs, the audience will get lots of high energy moves from her.
Season 7
Ginger Minj - She needed to raise money when she was going to do her first pageant. She was working at Sleuths Mystery Dinner and the owner offered to sponsor but she has to use the name Ginger Minj as a nod to the company. In Sleuth’s legend, an actor playing Simon, an old Scottish character from the show called Squires Inn, went out to mingle with the crowd before the show. He went up to a red-headed woman and yelled across the room to his co-actor, “Hey Nigel, do you think that one’s got a ginger minge?” The woman happens to be from the UK, knew that ginger minge is a slang for red vagina and punched him in the face and broke his jaw in front of the entire audience. Ginger thinks the name fits her personality very well. It’s a little raunchy and dirty if you know what it is, but still sounds very classy, wholesome, and nice.Her drag mother is Rusti Fawcett.
Jaidynn Diore Fierce - Ever since she was a kid, she has always loved the name Jaidynn. Diore comes from her love of fashion especially the Dior line and she wanted to take a play on words. And since she was fierce, it became her last name.
Jasmine Masters - She chose the name Jasmine from the actress Jasmine Guy from A Different World. Masters came from her drag mother, Destiny Masters.
Kandy Ho’ - She got together with a bunch of friends and started throwing names out. One friend suggested Candy but with a K because she is a sweet person, but her ex said that she needed something to spice it up something raunchy. He suggested Ho with an apostrophe so people can know it’s from whore.
Katya - Her full name is Yekaterina Petrovna Zamolodchikova. It is a composite of generic Russian women names and the last name of one of her favorite Russian gymnasts Elena Zamolodchikova as she is obsessed with gymnastics. She chose a long name that would be difficult for people to spell or pronounce.
Kennedy Davenport - She started off as Mia. Kennedy was given by her drag mother, Kelexis Davenport, who said that it was a unisex name and appealed to different audiences. Davenport came from Divine’s role as Dawn Davenport in Female Trouble. Her other drag mother is Champagne Bordeaux.
Max - Max came from her real name Max Malanaphy instead of a drag name because nothing felt right and he felt that he need the authenticity. She goes by only the first name because she felt that Malanaphy is a silly drag name.
Miss Fame - After reading The Secret which talks about the law of attraction, she wanted to set her intentions for greatness and attract success. She wanted a name that femme and powerful so she came up with Fame Fatale. Shortly after Britney Spears came up with a similar album name Femme Fatale, she decided to adjust her name to Miss Fame.
Mrs. Kasha Davis - Her drag name is a combination of her first pet, a white angry poodle named Kasha, and the first street she grew up on which is Davis Street in Scranton, Pennsylvania. The Mrs. part came from her drag mother Naiomy Kane who said that she’s prude compared to the other queens and since she’s married to Mister Davis.
Pearl - She was watching The Sweetest Thing, which is a horrible romantic comedy that she hates to admit that she loves. There’s a scene where there’s a grandpa talking about how he loves a woman and she was the best thing that’s ever happened to him. Another guys goes “Oh you really miss grandma huh?”. The grandpa goes, “Fuck grandma, it’s Pearl I’m talking about”. She has this vision in her head of Pearl as a crazy bitchy old lady that fucked her grandpa and took all the inheritance money.
Sasha Belle - Her first drag name was Frisbee Jenkins, and then she decided to change it. Sasha comes from Beyonce’s Sasha Fierce. Belle is from her drag mother Pretty Belle.
Tempest DuJour - Tempest an homage to her professional career in theater and is inspired by William Shakespeare’s The Tempest. Tempest is a noun and a verb, where it insights mental imagery of something strong and powerful and a natural force. She wanted a last name that is very campy and kitschy. DuJour is from her Deep Southern roots, where she thought a person from those areas would think is a super fancy French word without really knowing its meaning or is the only French word they have heard. When you put it with Tempest, it literally means “Storm of The Day”. When she first started drag, she was going as Vaginasaurus Rex.
Trixie Mattel - When she was younger she had a rough relationship with her step dad, and whenever she was acting effeminate he would call her a Trixie like it was a slur. When she was 18 she had to step in for a person who played a drag role in The Rocky Horror Picture Show. It just so happened that the character’s name was also Trixie which felt like fate. She started as only Trixie, but nobody really knew her name so they call her as the new girl who looks like a Barbie doll. So later Mattel is an homage to Barbie--her number one visual inspiration. As a child she wasn’t allowed to have a Barbie so she became one.
Violet Chachki - Her original drag name was Blair. She then changed to Violet after watching Jennifer Tilly in the movie Bound playing a sexy money hungry lesbian rocking Christian Louboutins and Chanel. She loved how devious and mysterious her character was. She wanted her drag character to have a nod to mid-century women, dark and mysterious, and beautiful to look at. That’s where Chachki came from which is the slang spelling of tchotchke, a Yiddish word for a strictly decorative object with no function. Her drag mother is Dax ExclamationPoint.
TI Press Day 2016 Recap: Interviews with Iceiceice, w33, SirActionSlacks (very long) + bonus reddit guest
Shoutouts to Volvorino – top notch Press Day. Muchos Gracias GabeN & Co.
Ok so im gonna post this on a throwaway because this stuff is fun, too long, and clowny as fuck. I’m TI6 Press btw – proof
Day start early at 9AM - sitting at a table with this neckbeard dude who can vouch for me (see later).
Navi arrives and all the outlets are swarming Dendi. I feel bad for him. He spent literally 2 straight hours answering questions. Most known players only get 10 or 15 minutes of interviews. A lot of players don’t get any interviews. Anyways Dendi looks drained as fuck he never turns down a single interview request, but has to take breaks and sit down between these longer ones. Navi ends up staying an extra hour and Dendi stays even longer until his handler finally sneaks him away.
So at around 10 AM this burly guy from one of the parsing sites shows up sits down and starts interviewing. I’m like wtf dude I reserved THAT chair for MY interviews you burly fuck – it’s fucking pointed right at me with clear line of site. Neck beard is still here, and I’m confused there are 15 other empty tables why the fuck are you here – doing nothing? Neckbeard slicks his hair back and is furiously scanning his Macbook oblivious to the dozens of pro players. Before I look away he’s slicked his hair back twice more.
Interview 1: EHOME.Iceiceice
So if you don’t know Darryl Koh he’s famous for trolling interviewers. He’s very intelligent and his ability to read people and deadpan react is very good. He may pretend to be weak in English but his comprehension of nuance and subtlety is better than most native speakers. Casually he’s extremely fun - but for interviews it’s a different story.
My plan is I’m going to sit him down and use his famous no-pick draft strategy against him. Total silence until he either says something or leaves.
Now it turns out he is sick, so I don’t want to troll a sick Ice because off camera he’s a totally nice guy off camera.
. . .
Ah fuck it Darryl can’t be that sick if he’s rubbing other people’s asses and shoving gopro’s in crotches.
So I need to get him over here to sit down, so I blurt out: Darryl can we have a short one question interview. And in that second I know I fucked up I worded that phrase too hastily. Ice’s eyes light up and he fucking smells my troll strat a mile away. He immediately says “No”. Now this is before I can start recording so he’s fucking got me. I’m trying to furiously get my gear online and I ask him again, he goes mime and shakes his head. Word to the wise. Don’t bother trying to troll the king of trolls.
Interview 2: DC.w33
DC enters the room a bit later and I get in a word with Omar. He’s no longer the puppey bitch he was when I met him on Secret earlier in the year. He’s more serious and composed – he’s obviously learned a thing or two since the kick. So I’m happy that he’s in a good situation now but sad he hard to learn it the hard way.
Me: So how was Abed’s Meepo?
w33: Good.
Me: You don’t have anything to add to that, like who has the better Meepo?
Me: Do you think you could top his Meepo? [long pause, visually unhappy]
w33: Meepo’s not that strong right now, not a good pick.
Interlude
Oh yeah, remember that neckbeard - he says nothing for the first hour, 2nd hour, I mean for a press junket where you basically need to hobnob and make contacts this guy was not doing anything except scroll on his Macbook and slick his hair back like pre-snipsnip FNG every 30s. Like maybe it’s a nervous twitch or something, but you could tell he stuck out in a room of chattering monkeys. Another hour of total silence pass and by chance some girl from News Outlet X introduces herself to everyone in the vicinity – neckbeard says he’s from reddit. I facepalm in synch thinking he’s some 9k mmr douchebag all he needs is a fedora to spiral tip this grill – turns out he’s Intolerable. Rofl not sure why he didn’t say anything. Turns out he’s a really cool dude - very first time at one of these things so obviously he doesn’t know anyone by face – but everyone knows Rapier guy. We joke a bit. I pm ex-mod/founder and now EG ReaverXuy - he doesn’t do interviews.
Interview 3: DC.SirActionSlacks
So I’ve known Ja-kay May-maze since before he blew up like when he was giving begging white people on the street to do interviews with a nobody. So I’m prepping for my other interviews while slamming this wonderful Valve food when Slacks just slams his jello like cakerolls into the chair beside. He’s like let’s do this interview. “Slacks I’m not ready, can you come back later can’t you see I’m eating.” Slacks works the room, either nobody recognizes him since it’s mostly Chinese media and meta esports clickbait sites making videos for casuals asking proplayers “what’s your top5 favorite champions” and “give us your top3 strange tips for winning pub matches”. Now I forgot to mention SAS’s wearing like legit hobo clothes. You look like you just won a hobo fight and it’s very apparent as he’s walking the floor: what little hair he has left is a mess, dirty polo with missing button and a hole in it, paired with pilled jogging pants. All of it swimming on him like 2 extra sizes too large. Like I can’t take video of this and I’m pretty sure these non-Dota people don’t even know who he is or why this large vagrant has access to a press junket with no badge. So he’s back in less than a minute like a fucking Dory fish. Let’s do that that interview. He’s brought back these disgusting Pocky candy sticks that look like they are cum covered and of course is he simulating fellatio with each one and mimicking a porn star by gargling and swallowing cum - EZ interview. He knows I need short answers so it’s fast turnaround and easy transcription so he is making the longest possible answers. I fucking hate Slacks but I also love him.
Slacks (SAS): What up dog - hit me up!
Me: So I'm here with . . .
SAS: Hi I'm Sir Action Slacks imma content creator, interviewer, substitute for DC, co-owner of Dota Cinema, ummm let's see what other shit have I done, idk. Some other stuff I'm working on you know how like Daenyrys has this long line of shit that's what I want bringer of dragons freer of slaves, lol
Me: I didn't even ask you anything you fuck.
SAS: You gave me a look.
Me: Let's review - did you learn anything from the Manila Major
SAS: No, like what. LOL lul LOL. Continue. . .
Me: Why don't your clothes fit?
SAS: That's a great question - do you want to hear the story? Originally the were trash bags and I cut holes. . . no no the story at the Manila Major. The GF and I know that Manila is the biggest event of my life right. This will decide if I go to TI or not. I go to my closet the morning of and I'm looking for my suits. Sweetie where are my suits. I took them to the dry cleaners so that you look good for your big trip. It's Memorial Day - the dry cleaners are closed for Memorial Day. What are we gonna do. I start driving around Colorado is there any one open, anyone awake. I go to Goodwill looking for suits, I've got 45 minutes before my flight starts boarding. I get to a K&G and the manager is unlocking the door to start her day. Maam listen to me. Money is not an issue. I have 15 minutes to get suits, please help me. Sorry we don't open for 2 hours. Please help me. She turns off the alarm and I have 11 minutes to get 3 suits. I don't try the on. Valve gets me a tailor while we are in Manila. Some old woman is working up to the hour before I was on camera.
Me: So did PGL & Valve approve these clothes?
SAS: They had no choice. That was it bro. That's life homie
Me: So you weren't trying to ape Bruno?
SAS: Nah, I wasn't trying to make a statement, I was a man on the edge. But maybe that's the statement maybe we're all on the edge pal. Maybe life throws us curveballs and sometimes we hit the out of the park and sometimes you know we awkwardly wear them. I have to say the suits haven't got much better but they have been tailored this time.
Me: What about escalation? My issue is that you are pushing the envelope everytime with the memes. Where does it end?
SAS: That's where you got it wrong pal. The group stage is the goofy part we got 16 days of broadcast at TI. We start off with the casual content and naturally as teams start getting eliminated and competition getss more intense the content becomes more serious. That's why Kaci's coming.
Me: So this is planned retardness?
SAS: Absolutely, this is surgical strike of dumb-assery. I'm dropping UAV's of memes on all of our enemies.
Me: You mention Kaci and she's a staple of TI. Where do you fit in? Do you want Redeye's job?
SAS: No! Being a host in Dota is one of the worst ways to break in. Redeye is the best at what he does. Chobra who is less professional and more funny. Kotl guy who is mostly funny and you got Sheever. You can't break in. I'm looking for interviewer. I've got a new goal though. I'm looking for TI and it's been 2 or 3 years and I made it. Now I'm looking for panel homie. I want to be on the couch. I'm going to actually learn to play Dota but if I do that it's going to be a bitch. The hate in your eyes. [Turns to random person] Oh hey we're doing an interview.
Random person: So why are you giving that Pocky a blowjob? Me: Are you completely YOLO into Dota. Shouldn't you diversify or spread out. Aren't you scared the Dota bubble is going to break. They player base has stagnated at around 15 million and the TI prizepool has reached it's peak at around 20 million dollars.
SAS: Am I scared that the bubble of the biggest e-sport in the world, well maybe League is bigger, well the biggest prizepool in the history of esports. The most balanced game. . . People who are in it for the money don’t last very long. People that care about where the growth is going, where the scene is going, will I be successful, what matters is what you are passionate about. If I was in it for the money I would be playing Heroes of the Storm like some kind of dbag.
Me: Well that leads into my next question. A lot of the other content creators and streamers they are playing the field and diversifying with other games. And you have no interest in that?
SAS: I have interest in other games, like as a kid I played all kinds of games. Diversifying would be the intelligent thing to do but it’s a twofold question. One the Dota community hates that. If you go back and look at the other people that have done that, Redeye to this day gets tweets saying that he’s a League betrayer. There is something about Dota fans that are passionate and I’m stuck with that. I love playing other games. But like everything else Dota always grabs you back. It’s the Siren Song, it’s the Starbucks in the morning even though you don’t need it, but you always want it. One day Dota will die and I’m fine with that. I’m not going to be the guy that still playing Dota 1 when Dota 3 comes out.
SAS: Everything in life is limited. There are people in this scene that think this will be forever. I’m not one of those people. I’ve waited tables for 8 years. Had $2000 in my bank account since I was 15 until I was 26. LUL. Everything in life is short especially stuff like E-sports. But the best things we can do is try to make it as fun and amazing in the short time we have. I’ll prolly get hit by a bus tomorrow. Can’t plan for the future. Gotta plan for the now baby.
SAS: Bastard! Ask Valve what the status is! IDK, I wish I did. I wish they could send me an e-mail instead of keeping me praying to Satan every night to get into the game.
Me: Like would you be okay with SunsFAN putting that set into a tournament?
SAS: I begged him to. LOL. Captain’s Draft I have Squireshorts the Omnipug and I begged SunsFAN to put him in that chest. And SunsFAN said he was too ugly.
SunsFAN: [from across the room] Shut up bitch!
SAS: He’s a real cruel bastard. But idk. I think Valve needs to remember that the Workshop is not only one of the ways to help content creators in the community but to help your game grow. Something that is cool and fun and to keep people invested in. You know it’s nice to have fun chests come out with the Majors and TI, by allowing tournaments and tickets to sell items. However we will see some changes with the new 2 Major format. We might see a resurgence with 3rd party tournaments putting stuff in the workshop. Did I get too real for ya? Huh? No memes that time. Gotcha. LOL.
Me: So in the meantime which Omniknight set are you using?
SAS: LUL, I’m using I set donated from a very nice fan using all the items I like and full gem slots. I’ve been using it ever since 20 games. It is hype. I have like 100k purifcations on that.
Me: Opinon on the Omniknight immortal?
SAS: Don’t use it. It’s Pay-to-Lose. When you cast Purify it shows a line showing where Omniknight is. Sorry can’t do it. It’s beautiful but it’s Pay-to-Lose.
Me: Your MMR according to Dotabuff is 4.5-4.7k
SAS: Incorrect sir I am officially 4.9 fifty k.
Me: And are you still rated on Dotabuff.
SAS: I used to be the 12th best Omniknight. I am now not at all.
Dotabuff.Skim: You realize that was a mistake.
SAS: It was not a mistake that was hard work and dedication.
Costa Rican: Hi, I’m from Costa Rica
SAS: Hey Costa Rica we’re doing an interview ya jackass.
Me: And your Omniknight build?
SAS: If you trust your teammates you buy wards and all that stuff, but how often do you trust your teammates. This is the build you go soul ring recipe and 2 clarities with the magic mask and you finish the soulring in the lane. If you don’t trust your teammates at all you go brown boots first item. You think I’m f’ing around. I’m going to get my 8 minute mana boots and 20 minute Guardian Greaves. I don’t care how badly you feed we are going to make it. Omniknight wins games by kicking and dragging his stupid teammates over the finish line. He ain’t no Dazzle.
Me: I’ve noticed that Febby is a top Dotabuff Omniknight, have you traded notes?
SAS: As the official sub of the team that beat MVP it wouldn’t be too good for me to give away secrets to the enemy.
Me: And on a final note I was wondering if you remember the highest tier difficulty tagalog phrase from Eri Neeman in Manila.
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