Great Real Names

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Composer, musician and instrument builder Limpe Fuchs.

https://www.thewire.co.uk/audio/tracks/wire-playlist-limpe-fuchs

I saw her at the weekend playing Tectonics festival here in Glasgow and she was awesome. Apparently drove herself to Glasgow from southern Germany in a Vauxhall Corsa with her rather wonderful percussion set up, which is no mean feat, let alone at 82 or 83 years old. She seemed really nice too.

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brain (krakow), Thursday, 4 May 2023 09:58 (three years ago)

A.O.J. Cockshutt

niall horanburger (cryptosicko), Sunday, 7 May 2023 21:55 (three years ago)

xp wasn't she in kraut-adjacent german band Anima?

budo jeru, Sunday, 7 May 2023 22:30 (three years ago)

Yep, that's her.

brain (krakow), Monday, 8 May 2023 10:21 (three years ago)

Richard Lovelady

Qeq-hauau-ent-pehui (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 10 May 2023 22:45 (three years ago)

I've come across A LOT of good 17th- and 18th-century Quaker names over the past 3.5 years, as I've worked on my thesis. Now that my thesis is done and submission is near, it's time to share the more than 90 wildest early Quaker names I've found (in alphabetical order): pic.twitter.com/Qj18jPELMI

— Isabella Rosner (@IsabellaRosner) May 16, 2023

pfutt, Wednesday, 17 May 2023 19:55 (three years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HiqY8YK_7pw

Maggot Bairn (Tom D.), Wednesday, 17 May 2023 20:33 (three years ago)

At work we have a new patient called Dudley Buttons

Godzilla: (laughs) You are a fool, Mozart. You will never defeat me. (a hoy hoy), Thursday, 18 May 2023 07:04 (three years ago)

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51VNuwet7NL.jpg

Maggot Bairn (Tom D.), Thursday, 25 May 2023 10:59 (three years ago)

Just got a work email from Sue LaGue.

Three Rings for the Elven Bishop (Dan Peterson), Thursday, 25 May 2023 14:02 (three years ago)

Vinny Boombatz

ꙮ (map), Saturday, 3 June 2023 18:34 (three years ago)

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/41-D6ScWh5L._SX373_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg

Maggot Bairn (Tom D.), Friday, 9 June 2023 10:12 (three years ago)

Aribusitamunoipirim Emmanuel "Aribim" Pepple

Renaissance of the Celtic Trumpet (Tom D.), Saturday, 17 June 2023 15:09 (two years ago)

Sandra Cakebread

Chuck_Tatum, Saturday, 17 June 2023 20:18 (two years ago)

Chr1st1an T1ts , works in finance in Belgium

StanM, Saturday, 17 June 2023 20:32 (two years ago)

aldrich potgeiter . made the cut at the us open this weekend.

oscar bravo, Saturday, 17 June 2023 20:36 (two years ago)

Kobe Bufkin just got drafted by the Atlanta Hawks

j.o.h.n. in evanston (john. a resident of chicago.), Friday, 23 June 2023 02:52 (two years ago)

Roger Nicely is probably not that great a name, but my inner adolescent is amused.

Infanta Terrible (j.lu), Tuesday, 27 June 2023 20:30 (two years ago)

Madison Marriage

Crabber B. Munson (Boring, Maryland), Tuesday, 27 June 2023 21:07 (two years ago)

I was recently in the Bahamas, flying into and out of Nassau. I am not sure you are all aware of this, but the airport there is named for the father of Bahamian independence: the honorable and most excellent Sir Lynden Pindling.

It's really quite difficult to be sad while saying the name "Lynden Pindling." Seriously, try it. I have lived a long time. Many tragedies have befallen me and my tribe. However, I have always been made happy while saying the words "snorkel" and "doily." To those, I add the name "Lynden Pindling."

Sure, being in the Bahamas is nice and all. But if the airport in Duluth or Buffalo or Kansas City were named after someone with a resplendent name like Lynden Pindling, I might reconsider those locales as vacation destinations.

pomplamoose and circumstance (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 27 June 2023 21:33 (two years ago)

^ great post

budo jeru, Wednesday, 28 June 2023 01:22 (two years ago)

i've been thinking recently of Eldon Shamblin and Lowman Pauling, two guitarists i really like listening to and who both made important developments to the emergence of rock N roll. they both had great names.

budo jeru, Wednesday, 28 June 2023 01:29 (two years ago)

For some reason I’ve begun receiving spam from the Epoch Times newspaper, edited-in-chief by Jasper Fakkert. My man is doing a great job.

tobo73, Wednesday, 28 June 2023 01:50 (two years ago)

Prosper Mérimée

budo jeru, Friday, 30 June 2023 04:15 (two years ago)

Pete1an P0st
Ing Ing 0ng

Both in the space of 5 mins.

Stoop Crone (Trayce), Monday, 3 July 2023 04:20 (two years ago)

Jethro Wookey

ionjusit (P. Flick), Friday, 7 July 2023 18:01 (two years ago)

Jade Ball

ionjusit (P. Flick), Friday, 7 July 2023 18:02 (two years ago)

two weeks pass...

Speranza Scappucci

Gerard Grisey Funk (Boring, Maryland), Friday, 21 July 2023 22:42 (two years ago)

Chet Flippo

Hans Holbein (Chinchilla Volapük), Sunday, 23 July 2023 02:19 (two years ago)

Helpys Feliz

underminer of twenty years of excellent contribution to this borad (dan m), Saturday, 5 August 2023 00:37 (two years ago)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacynta_Galabadaarachchi

Monthly Python (Tom D.), Sunday, 13 August 2023 11:54 (two years ago)

three weeks pass...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HiqY8YK_7pw

Princess Cheese!

The Banshees of Ed Sheeran (Leee), Friday, 8 September 2023 22:44 (two years ago)

Rodolfo Maximiliano Sarzo Lavieille Grande Ruiz Payret y Chaumont

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudy_Sarzo

Monthly Python (Tom D.), Saturday, 9 September 2023 23:05 (two years ago)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bing_Futch

Monthly Python (Tom D.), Tuesday, 19 September 2023 08:51 (two years ago)

AKA people whose names sound like the b-sides to obscure British psychedelic singles ca. 1967/1968...

Arthur H. Peppercorn

I Left My Harp In Sam Frank's Disco (Tom D.), Sunday, 24 September 2023 16:24 (two years ago)

one month passes...

Harry Buckoke

deep wubs and tribral rhythms (Boring, Maryland), Thursday, 2 November 2023 22:55 (two years ago)

https://www.discogs.com/release/2111137-Dick-Hyman-Mary-Mayo-Moon-Gas

Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Sunday, 5 November 2023 10:05 (two years ago)

Alabama State Treasurer Young Boozer

https://1819news.com/news/item/birmingham-southern-state-treasurer-boozer-not-factually-accurate-on-30-million-state-loan-denial

don't let days go by, Listerine (Ye Mad Puffin), Sunday, 5 November 2023 12:24 (two years ago)

Augustus Egg

My Prelapsarian Baby (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 10 November 2023 22:23 (two years ago)

Anemona Hartocollis

m0stly clean (Slowsquatch), Friday, 10 November 2023 23:00 (two years ago)

Robert Fripp's guitar tech Biff Blumfungagnge

Kate (rushomancy), Monday, 13 November 2023 17:27 (two years ago)

Sorry, I misspelled that. It's actually Blumfumgagnge.

Kate (rushomancy), Monday, 13 November 2023 17:28 (two years ago)

Nimrode Pantz

https://dcist.com/story/23/11/14/dc-march-support-israel-mall/

don't let days go by, Listerine (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 15 November 2023 13:29 (two years ago)

Okay so apparently "Fflyn" is like the actual name of a human person and not a Hobbit or Disney fairy or Vulcan or Narnian faun or whatever.

https://wapo.st/47kVYZx

I give up. I. Just. Give. Up. Carry on without me.

Oh I believe in Yetis' Day (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 17 November 2023 12:59 (two years ago)

Ff- is a pretty standard way to begin a Welsh name.

Madchen, Friday, 17 November 2023 13:22 (two years ago)

It makes more of a regular f sound since a single f sounds more like a v.

Shifty Henry’s Swing Club (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 17 November 2023 13:40 (two years ago)

So ff is a letter in its own right, after f and before g and ng, which follows g.

Shifty Henry’s Swing Club (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 17 November 2023 13:42 (two years ago)

Ok. Apologies for the flippant tone.

(But privately I do kinda sorta want to believe that hobbits and leprechauns walk among us.)

Oh I believe in Yetis' Day (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 17 November 2023 14:08 (two years ago)

No worries. I believe Welsh was one of the languages Tolkien was inspired by when he came up with Elvish.

Shifty Henry’s Swing Club (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 17 November 2023 14:40 (two years ago)

Okay so for some reason I was googling former Vice President Daniel Tompkins.*

Found this wikigem:

Mangle Minthorne, an assistant alderman of New York City. The couple had eight children, including Arietta Minthorn Tompkins (born July 31, 1800), who married a son of Smith Thompson in 1818, and (Mangle) Minthorne Tompkins (December)

*= Probably because Christmas is coming and Daniel D. Tompkins is mentioned in "Miracle in 34th Street," which is one of the very few Christmas movies that I find even tolerable.

Oh I believe in Yetis' Day (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 22 November 2023 02:05 (two years ago)


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