German COVID-19

Last night I watch The ‘Burbs, starring Tom Hanks, and yes, it did occur to me (after the fact) that his surname is an addition to the recent and prolific “John, Joanne, Hank, Hans, ...(name dilutive) ” pattern cluster.  Note from my April 14 post, Hans Reiss (Part 5):

• Hank: Originally a short form of Hankin, which was a medieval diminutive of JOHN.

The ‘Burbs

As I watched the film, I picked up on some   inner twin influence, the first being when Tom Hanks used the big heavy door knocker, the rickety old house shook, causing the number 9 of civic number 669 to dislodge and turn upside down, changing it  to 666.  For those who don’t know the meaning, check out Wikipedia’s site on the Christian Bible (Old Testament) re — Book of Revelations chapter 13, verse 8:

Here is wisdom. Let him who has understanding calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man: His number is 666.

Note this next excerpt from the Book of Revelations site:

 The book is traditionally attributed to John the Apostle

I had posted about Tom Hanks and his wife, Rita Wilson, who had contracted Covid-19 (March 11 post,  Corona Virus Covid 19 (Part 1).

Another inner twin influence in the film has to do with one of the character names:

• Courtney Gains as Hans Klopek

Another addition to the “John, Joanne, Hank, Hans, ...(name dilutive) ” pattern cluster.  Note from actor Courtney Gains wiki page:

Courtney Gains (born August 22, 1965)

Note the following regarding another of the films cast:

• Wendy Schaal as Bonnie Rumsfield

It’s her surname, as per the following excerpt from my recent April 10 post, Hanover :

 It also occurred to me that another recent cluster “Names Beginning with ‘Sch’” pattern cluster also has a “German” connection. 

Hmmm, note the “germ” in German.  So this warrants further investigation— following the “German” lead, I then went to the  List of German actors wikipedia page.  The list was extraordinarily long, so I perused the names looking for any  clue, a primary one being a cryptic finger pointing to the direction of  COVID 19.  I came first to in the Late Silent Era section:

• Eugen Burg

The surname Burg is an addition to the prolific “Remove a Letter Makes a Word” pattern cluster... as in remove the “r” makes “bug”... and the virus is a very dangerous flu “bug”!!  Note from Burg’s wiki page:

• Eugen Burg(6 January 1871 – 17 April 1944) BUG ****

WHOA!! TODAY is April 17... AND, it’s also the birthday of my son in Law, Nick Schultz!!!  There was another Burg on the wikipedia page: 

• Monika Burg (7 May 1914 – 17 March 2008)