They used to paint planes pink to camouflage against certain types of cloud cover when performing low level reconnaissance during the war, so not necessarily as daft as people think. 😎🤣
There's a good British sport - making fun of silly foreign names.
There was a letter in the LRB some time ago, in response to an article about names. The writer's father, who was a vicar, had to gently dissuade a young and not well-educated couple from giving their daughter a lovely name they'd seen or read somewhere: Vagina.
I'm afraid I did raise an eyebrow at a ceremeny when a Psychiatry graduand, whose surname was Warre had her full name read out, as her middle name was Atomic.
Was that naughty of my eyebrow?