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Lol, "Dumb Dora" was a term used in vaudeville. Generally, a husband and wife team would do an act and the wife was almost always the "Dumb Dora", a dumb character that would play to the husband's straight-man character. Dumb Doras were generally the secondary characters in the skit, the spotlight falling on the suffering husband, who would then receive sympathetic laughs from the audience. Except for Gracie Allen, whose Dumb Dora character outshone her husband, because she was so dumb yet made sense on a very technical level. Portland Hoffa was another who garnered a lot of attention, but her husband was still the bigger star of the two.

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Sorry!

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That said, I'm not liking Theo much as a nickname of Theodora, but I do like Dori and Téa, the latter a bit more. Is Téa an option?