I think a couple of days ago sometone thought of offering a Columbo college course. I think that that might be an interesting idea but how can someone set up a course like that. I would like to see any posts with ideas.

Here are some of mine for The Columbo Course.

Columbo COurse 101: Characterisitics of Columbo
Columbo Course 102: Dog and his car
Columbo Course 103: The guest murderers
COlumbo Course 104: The Guest Victims
Columbo Course 105: Repeating Characters
Columbo Course 106: Lessons learned from Columbo
Columbo Course 107: Motives
Columbo Course 108: Contemporary Social Issues

I think I am off to a fairly good start

How about an indepth study into his first name - couldnt resist. sorry.

God bless,

Matthew

I'd save the first name for a final exam question or a major research paper. Some fans apparently believe some sources that others hold to have little or no credibility in regard to the name. I'd allow students to propose a name and defend the choice. For example, we know that Columbo talked about his Italian ancestry, but many immigrant families wanted to assimilate by adopting more "American" names. Is there any evidence his family may have done that? Maybe an Italian name with an more "American-sounding" nickname?

Well, in fact the real Italian name is Colombo, not Columbo. To me, it doesn't seem enough to americanize the name, but maybe just one letter makes it sound less foreign .

I know that one of my uncles was named Onofrio.......How freakin guinea is that????? but we always called him Uncle Al...or Uncle Ally....I have no idea why.....we are a strange family!!
I also had another uncle named Nebo....what is up with that???