The first one's a small-time thug named Barney.

AROUND the turn of the century, a 647-pound fire chief named Barney ran a bar-hotel in Locust Valley.

As a mother of a 2-year-old child, I am rather too intimately acquainted with a large, purple TV dinosaur named Barney.

To help distribute the phony product, Madame Aphrodite hired an attractive but naive young man named Barney (Jack Drummond) as her salesman.

He appeared in an acting part playing a jazz guitarist named "Barney" in one episode of the Perry Mason TV show.

One was named Barney because he looked like Barney Rubble of "The Flintstones" cartoon series.

We named him Barney for short; we couldn't use his real name, there wasn't time.

He had come to an especially poignant moment, when the captain has to write a eulogy for one of his men, a beefy firehouse cutup named Barney.

Last year, a groundbreaking ruling was issued in a case that involved an apparently lonely chimpanzee named Barney.

Anita Culley reclaimed the parrot in 2003, and it was replaced by another blue-fronted Amazon named Barney in the same year.