Call It the Pisces Effect. When he was younger, the Rev. Melvin Poindexter Miller had been torn between pursuing a career in dance or the ministry. After he was accepted into a seminary, though, the decision seemed behind him.
Bertie is a masculine given name. (See also Bertie (nickname) .) Notable people with the name include: 1  Bertie Brownlow (1920â2004), Tasmanian cricket player.2  Bertie Childs (born 1894), British Olympic fencer. 3  Bertie Cooksley (1894â1980), New Zealand politician of the National Party.ertie is a masculine given name. (See also Bertie (nickname) .) Notable people with the name include: 1  Bertie Brownlow (1920â2004), Tasmanian cricket player. 2  Bertie Childs (born 1894), British Olympic fencer.
The name Sylvester is a play on Felis silvestris, the scientific name for the wild cat species (domestic cats like Sylvester, though, are actually Felis catus). The character debuted in Friz Freleng's Life With Feathers (1945).