(historical)

Hey, you should've seen it, it was well good.

And your name? she said, I suppose it's quite unremarkable? Very funny. Mark. It could stand as a symbol of a man, for men as a category, she reflected, but I don't suppose that's why your mother gave it to you? My mother's motives always were impenetrable to me. I was her only child, she wanted a simple life. So she gave me a simple name to go along with it. --- It wasn't a popular name until the nineteenth century. People were put off by King Mark in the Tristram and Iseult.

The overpriced items would not sell.