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I like Earl. It's such a statement. I like that it's so steeped in stereotype that it's impossible to see it as just a regular name. It's so.....itself. It's so very American, with all that entails. Its roots are so optimistically strident and grasping, trying to climb that class ladder in a particularly American way, that it became a byword for brutish ignorance that destroys the things it yearns for. Earl is like that green light in The Great Gatsby, and I like that about it.

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I also love Earlene, which is Earl with extra blue eye shadow.