“… picture puzzle that was prevalent in the Sunday Post newspaper when I was a kid there.. there was the Merry Mac frontpage which was for kids and you get Oor Wullie and the Broons the strip cartoons and you would also get puzzles. And it used to have these little pictures with letters taken away around it to the to the words to make a secret message. And so I thought – you know – being like any smartarse English student I thought oh god rebus it means picture puzzle fantastic he’s being sent picture puzzles then spent years trying to explain to people why I chose this very un-Scots name.”
描述Ian Rankin BBC Radio4 Desert Island Discs 6 Nov 2011 b016vh1b.flac
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