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This might be apter in the aptRonym thread, but hey, I'm here, so am delighted to report - from today's Centralian Advocate - that the winner of this year's Finke Desert Race (a local event for trail bikes & buggies BTW) was, I'm (r)apt to say, a certain Mr Vroom. 
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as an alternative, I propose diseuonymI never look at topics that go to five pages, but here I am, it's 5.30 at work, I'm restless, let's load 'em all up. A diseuonym should be a caconym. 'Diseuonym', is a terrible word for it... oh wait... Dis and inept (not * inapt, lesson on Old Latin stress available on old request) are Latin, onym and eu and caco are good Greek, and fiercely proud of it. Anyway, I'm here because I came across a good one recently: bellibone. Spenser used it to mean a fair maid, belle et bonne but that's not at all the mental impression I get.
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Yes, I bet that makes a fair impression on th emaid as well!
BTW, at the risk of eggstracting the yolk, have you considered setting your display preferences to 99 per page, since this makes it quicker and more bearable to view the average ramble hereabouts?
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I'd never thought of 'ex officio' as an inapt(r)onym, but if it's good enough for the editor of the Washington Post, it's good enough for this list. In a recent review of a biography of Simone Weil, the Post refers to her as the 'ex officio patron saint of [I can't remember what of... probably either existentialists or anorexics, given that SW was indeed an anorexistentialist]. 'Ex officio' means 'arising out of one's office', and not, as the WP clearly thinks*, 'unofficial'. * which is not to say that I'm suggesting the WP thinks clearly - au contraire. 
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How about a self-referencial aptRonym: I learned yesterday of a Professor whose name is Harry Mirken. [ducking to avoid Dr Bill]
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a Professor whose name is Harry Mirken
Without wishing to descend into the professorial murk myself, might I observe that, self-referentially speaking, the beatific patron saint of anorexistentialism was herself vilely inapt(r)onymic.
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