When I was in college there was a fictional character on a soap named Lance Weatherby that I caught way too much grief about.

That was a long time ago but there seems to be a small more recent trend of using Lance Weatherby as a fictional character name. There is the book Wildcat Strike: The Eddie Devlin Compendium. Within the last six months my name was used in another novel that I can not seem to locate. Then this morning I had a vanity alert from a post by Jane Doe. Seems like Jane likes my name as well:

Cristina and Izzie were practically drooling at Caissa’s male partner. “Lance Weatherby…” Cristina murmured under her breath. “He makes precipitation and coldfronts look sexy.”

I find it odd that someone would name the weather man Weatherby and I have never seen a sexy weather man in my life but there you have it.