Ohl: Percival
His name was Percival, but he went by his middle name Alfonso or Alf as most of us called him. It just seemed to fit him based on his middle name and the TV program, “Alf.” You may remember the sitcom that ran from 1986 to 1990 starring Alf, short for Alien Life Form. He was a small, furry creature from space (planet Melmac) whose spaceship crash-landed in the garage of the suburban middle-class Tanner family. His spaceship was beyond repair, so they took him in even though they had a cat, and cats were a delicacy on his home planet.
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