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Post by John Robert Mead on Mar 23, 2021 1:17:31 GMT -5
It's only with my latest reread that the name of the Air Force Sergeant who relayed the message concerning Bree's fly-by at the end of the story registered with me.
Frankovich.
I'd lay good odds that it was Rusty Frankovich, since the last heard of him he'd enlisted in the Air Force (after laying a false trail pointing at the Marines.)
Man, sometimes I'm godawful slow on the uptake.
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Post by Anthony Hilton on Apr 5, 2021 8:09:30 GMT -5
I wondered whether Jackie might have asked, and if it was Rusty, telling him Misty had broken away from their mother and joined the navy.
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Post by Leo Kerr on Apr 8, 2021 15:46:08 GMT -5
my recollection was that it was a pretty tight schedule, that scene. Rusty was, I suspect, essentially "convenient" to Bree (and to Wes).
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Post by John Robert Mead on Apr 18, 2021 7:23:12 GMT -5
I'm sure Wes didn't name the Sergeant "Frankovich" by chance, but it was a throwaway reference; walk on stage, deliver the line, continue across the stage and exit.
There wouldn't be any time allowed for conversation; he just happened to be the chap on duty at the relevant Air Force base when Bree wanted a message relayed to her folks.
When you are doing that kind of thing, you have to make sure that 'you' the individual does not become involved, that giving your name is merely identifying the end node in the communications link between sender and recipient.
The final link in the automated call routing...
Not quite an Easter Egg, but still something of a treat for any reader who happened to notice.
Something to fuel speculation which could be disavowed with a simple, "There are others with that last name, you know," if it ever came to conflict with the storyline for Rusty at a later date.
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Post by Andrew on Apr 19, 2021 13:07:26 GMT -5
It never crossed my mind that "Frankovich" could be anyone other than Rusty, he was in the Air Force after all.
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Post by SamP on Jul 5, 2021 13:29:42 GMT -5
It never crossed my mind that "Frankovich" could be anyone other than Rusty, he was in the Air Force after all. True for me also, but it's harder for a non-US reader to judge if "Frankovich" would be a common surname in the US, or sufficiently unusual to cause Jackie to speculate. Given the internal logic of fiction, it had to be Rusty. Much like that Terry Pratchett quote about fiction. “Million-to-one chances...crop up nine times out of ten.” |
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Post by Allen on Jul 25, 2021 17:17:06 GMT -5
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Post by Colin on Jul 26, 2021 3:09:45 GMT -5
It seems that it comes from:
Croatian (Frankovic) and Slovenian (southern Slovenia; Frankovic): patronymic from the personal name Franko.
So "Son of Frank(o)"
So likely to be very common among immigrants from the Balkans.
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Post by Allen on Jul 27, 2021 14:02:12 GMT -5
"Frankovic" is actually rarer than "Frankovich": 206 persons in 2010. The total (952) would place 25849th, tied interestingly enough with "Frankowski".
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