...with one of my (Guatemalan) coworkers whose name is "Orlando":
Just like I call everyone "Senor/Senora/Senorita + [their first name]," I initially call him Senor Orlando, but then I started calling him Senor Miami, and when he looked confused and finally corrected me to "Orlando" after my doing that several times, I was like. "Oh, no Miami, Orlando, Orlando, claro, si!", to his general amusement.
Then, the next time, I started calling him Senor Tallahassee, but he shook his head no, and was like, Senor West Palm Beach in this heavy (Spanish) accent -- I couldn't even understand that he was saying "West Palm Beach," at first -- and for a while afterwards from then on, too, he would whip out all of these relatively more-obscure names of cities and towns in Florida, like saying that he was Senor Fort Myers and the like.
. . .
(What a great sense of humor... I also think this gag would work well in a [Spanish]-language sitcom, as like behavior of some doofy recurring [white] character.)
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