"What's in a name?"

I already knew this storied scope-- veteran of many star parties, featured on the Internet, and proudly displaying a "first light" dated plaque-- would be one of my named scopes, since it definitely had the requisite mix of history and color. 

Once I saw it I was initially drawn again to the moniker "Boris", since for its diameter, the 24" is short and hulking-- almost troll-like or brutish, like Boris in "Rocky and Bullwinkle".  However, from the word 'brutish' it is a short linguistic hop to 'Brutus'-- which I realized later was probably a factor in naming the big bully of the Popeye cartoons, too. 

 As soon as I made the mental leap to "Brutus", the quote from Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar" ("The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, But in ourselves, that we are underlings.") leaped into mind and the die was cast (to use another Caesarean tag line!). 

A "triple entendre" (brutish, Popeye's Brutus, and Shakespeare's Brutus).  I love it when a plan comes together!!!