Elf Sternberg

The Nosmo King name, and variations, seems to be floating around as a story of modern silliness, without much evidence. The music-hall act is documented. I'm still not sure what's so wrong about the names Elf heard; they're not ridiculous as such so I suppose there's some particular association. All that comes to my mind is Gone With The Wind

Names are odd things. We mostly don't care about the original meaning, but we have some expectation of what a name should sound like.