Interesting. We're slowly inventing a subtly different, but intimately related, kind of joke: the kind which depends on special knowledge of the identity of the speaker.
"I am NOT working for Pepsi again!", MJ flamed.
"Did you say Aaron Burr? That guy's crazy!", Alex shot back.
"I haven't come up with any new songs lately", Alanis said ironically.
These are not classic Swifties; they're something else, for which we need a name. Proposals gladly accepted.
Rick Branties? Am I missing a pun or an allusion to someone/something, or is Rick Branties just an essentially random name meant to be distiguishable from Tom Swifty?
The Rick Brant series of books was another set of science/adventure books for young people.
I voraciously read all of the Tom Swift Jr and Tom Swift Sr books, the Rick Brant series, and the Power Boys as well. I was a science geek even as a kid.