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This name belongs to a character in Puccini's opera "La Fanciulla del West". The male protagonist is a bandit, Ramirez, who uses "Dick Johnson" as an alias.

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I don't know if Puccini even suspected of the connotations that both of these names would take among anglophones, but it makes me giggle. It sounds so *virile*. What do you think?

This message was edited 8/7/2014, 12:53 PM