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Aaliyah
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Armani
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YOHAN and YAMANI

SOURCE:Evening Standard

'Yohan' isn't very good, just a quick phonetic alteration to the pre-existing Johan(nes), but 'Yamani' is a decent quality Negronome.

Turns out these Brothers In Arms, or more accurately, 'Brothas In Armed Robbery' aren't the brightest...posing with their ill-gotten loot and posting pics of it on the internet shockingly led to their arrest. Yes, armed robbery victims, 'Yamani' has got 'ya money'.

Fortunately, he's not going to need it, and neither is Yohan as they'll both be receiving full ride scholarships to NU, all meals and accomodation taken care of. Now how about that for a happy ending?

I'm giving Yohan and Yamani a cumulative 5.5, because that's all they're worth, even if they are the first entries into the 'Y' section of the Negronomicon.

ANDRAE JHAKOR SKI'RON

SOURCE:M Live

Okay, let me just say I was in two minds whether or not to include 'Andrae' as it is a lazy attempt at Negronomifying an existing name...you wouldn't even know it was different unless you saw it written down.

However, once we get past this initial disappointment, it's solid gold from here on out. Picture the scene:

INT. TRANSPORTER ROOM of STARSHIP ENTERPRISE

ENSIGN BLOGGS: Most of the dignitaries have already beamed aboard Captain.

CAPTAIN SMITH: Who's left?

ENSIGN BLOGGS: Just the Triluvian Ambassador...he's beaming over now.

(Triluvian Ambassador materialises in Transporter Bay)

TRILUVIAN: I am Jhakor Ski'ron, Ambassador of Triluvia.

CAPTAIN SMITH: On behalf of the United Federation of Planets, I welcome you aboard
the Starship Enterprise.

TRILUVIAN: Yo, where da Vulcan women be at?

Andrae falls into the 'not to sharp, but fond of sharp objects category', and it looks like his penchant for stabbing people could earn him a scholarship place at NU, where sticking things inside people against their will is a daily occurence, especially in the showers. He should love it!

I'm giving him a 9.0...it would have been 10, but I had to knock a point off for 'Andrae', I'm afraid.

QUANTEZ DEVONTA and TRACEN

Quantez Devonta


Tracen (How cool would it have been if his middle name was 'Paper'?

SOURCE:Daily Mail

Two of the four goons involved in the Bobby Tillman murder, and an interesting insight into the concept of morality as per 'urban youths'.

Rather than hit a girl who had struck one of their group (see, it starts of okay...vaguely chivalrous, even), the gang of four instead decide to take out their pent up frustration on the next person they see, who happened to be a young fellow by the name of Bobby Tillman, and subsequently beat him to death.

If this isn't a stark illustration of that time-honoured proverb that 'the road to Hell is paved with good intentions', then I don't know what is. Clearly, the road to Hell is also any street or road where black folk congregate in large numbers.



I rest my case.

From a Negronomological perspective, we've got some real humdingers. 'Tracen' sounds like a bad hybrid of 'Tracey' and 'Jason', but 'Quantez Devonta' makes me wish that Scrabble would amend the rules to allow the use of Negronomes.

I'm giving them a cumulative 10.0 on the Negronometer (1.5 for Tracen, 8.5 for Quantez Devonta). Negronomologically gifted, logically and morally subnormal...what else is new?

DELVONTE

SOURCE:Daily Mail

Delvonte's story is certainly an unusual one...how often is that we have an inductee to the Negronomicon who doesn't have a police mugshot?

His body is found battered and bruised in somebody's yard, but because that yard is under a flight path, there's speculation he may have tried hitching a ride in the wheel well of a plane and fell out.

Or perhaps some people just beat him to death and dumped his body in the nearest yard.

Still, it's nice to see the Police adhere to Sherlock Holmes' old maxim that held 'When you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, is the truth'.

Can the involvement of aliens be ruled out at this juncture? Who knows...still, if this freefall fatality theory does prove to have legs (or, more appropriately, wings), then I'm pretty sure Reverend Al and Jesse will be suing the airline and airport, and probably accusing gravity of being racist too.

For now, I'm giving Delvonte a 5.0 on the Negronometer.

DANROY

SOURCE:Now Public

'Danroy' sounds like a straightforward enough name, most likely a 'play it safe until we know who da babydaddy beez'-inspired moniker. It's just a shame that two fairly mundane names like Dan and Roy got stuck together...imagine if his parents had first consulted the Negronomicon and concocted a hybrid from the Negronomenclature listed within. Just imagine...Querronoszvontario, anybody? It would be even cooler if they decided to splice three or four different Negronomes together. The possibilities are endless!

However, one thing that isn't endless is life, and for some people the end comes quicker than it does for others. In Danroy's case, an attempted vehicular homicide on a cop was unfortunately foiled when said cop's partner decided to let bullets do the talking. In gangsta circles, I'd imagine killing a cop would have led to Danroy being a 'made man'. As it was, it just ended up with him being made good.

I'm giving Danroy a 1.5 on the Negronometer. At the end of the day it's just too mundane and lacking in that intrinsic creativity which all good Negronomes tend to have.

AMIRI

SOURCE: Orlando Sentinel

It's ironic...as I typed 'Amiri' into Google to look up the story, the suggestion that got offered was 'Amirite?', the concatenated bastardisation of 'Am I right?'.

Fact is, he's about as far from right as you could hope to be, which is to say he (and his accomplices) are just plain wrong.

As Negronomenclature goes, 'Amiri' is just so bland...the addition of a needless 'D' to make 'D'Amiri' could have made all the difference, but it was not to be. Still, it's relatively easy to spell, which I guess is a good thing as I'm not getting a 'rocket scientist' vibe off of him.

'Amiri' gets a 1.5 on the Negronometer. I dare say he'll get more when it comes to sentencing though.

Here's hoping.