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 (ten months ago) link
^ great post
― budo jeru, Wednesday, 28 June 2023 01:22 (ten months ago) link
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 (ten months ago) link
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 (ten months ago) link
Prosper Mérimée
― budo jeru, Friday, 30 June 2023 04:15 (ten months ago) link
Pete1an P0stIng Ing 0ng
Both in the space of 5 mins.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Monday, 3 July 2023 04:20 (ten months ago) link
Jethro Wookey
― ionjusit (P. Flick), Friday, 7 July 2023 18:01 (ten months ago) link
Jade Ball
― ionjusit (P. Flick), Friday, 7 July 2023 18:02 (ten months ago) link
Speranza Scappucci
― Gerard Grisey Funk (Boring, Maryland), Friday, 21 July 2023 22:42 (ten months ago) link
Chet Flippo
― Hans Holbein (Chinchilla Volapük), Sunday, 23 July 2023 02:19 (ten months ago) link
Helpys Feliz
― underminer of twenty years of excellent contribution to this borad (dan m), Saturday, 5 August 2023 00:37 (nine months ago) link
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacynta_Galabadaarachchi
― Monthly Python (Tom D.), Sunday, 13 August 2023 11:54 (nine months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HiqY8YK_7pw
Princess Cheese!
― The Banshees of Ed Sheeran (Leee), Friday, 8 September 2023 22:44 (eight months ago) link
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 (eight months ago) link
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bing_Futch
― Monthly Python (Tom D.), Tuesday, 19 September 2023 08:51 (eight months ago) link
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 (eight months ago) link
Harry Buckoke
― deep wubs and tribral rhythms (Boring, Maryland), Thursday, 2 November 2023 22:55 (six months ago) link
https://www.discogs.com/release/2111137-Dick-Hyman-Mary-Mayo-Moon-Gas
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Sunday, 5 November 2023 10:05 (six months ago) link
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 (six months ago) link
Augustus Egg
― My Prelapsarian Baby (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 10 November 2023 22:23 (six months ago) link
Anemona Hartocollis
― m0stly clean (Slowsquatch), Friday, 10 November 2023 23:00 (six months ago) link
Robert Fripp's guitar tech Biff Blumfungagnge
― Kate (rushomancy), Monday, 13 November 2023 17:27 (six months ago) link
Sorry, I misspelled that. It's actually Blumfumgagnge.
― Kate (rushomancy), Monday, 13 November 2023 17:28 (six months ago) link
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 (six months ago) link
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 (six months ago) link
Ff- is a pretty standard way to begin a Welsh name.
― Madchen, Friday, 17 November 2023 13:22 (six months ago) link
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 (six months ago) link
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 (six months ago) link
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 (six months ago) link
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 (six months ago) link
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 (six months ago) link
Okay sorry for the digression but seriously: Mangle Minthorne.
Mangle. Minthorne.
Of the New York Minthornes.
Not to be confused with Mangle Minthorne Tompkins, who was a completely different New York politician.
― Oh I believe in Yetis' Day (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 22 November 2023 02:08 (six months ago) link
Gay WimpKansas State Census, 1915— Actual Names (@ActualNames1) November 23, 2023
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Friday, 24 November 2023 02:53 (six months ago) link
abysmal real names
― Josefa, Friday, 24 November 2023 03:08 (six months ago) link
...is that mint/horne or minth/orne?
― m0stly clean (Slowsquatch), Friday, 24 November 2023 06:32 (six months ago) link
Cuthbert Girdlestone
― Tapioca by Jean Sibelius (Boring, Maryland), Friday, 8 December 2023 02:14 (five months ago) link
R4ndy M4ss4gee
― Expansion to Mackerel (Boring, Maryland), Sunday, 10 December 2023 20:43 (five months ago) link
Chiquita Seaborne
― CthulhuLululemon (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 11 December 2023 22:49 (five months ago) link
Altany Craik
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/dec/13/labour-councillor-altany-craik-quits-selection-race-after-concerns-over-sexy-satanic-novels
― Free Ass Ange (Tom D.), Wednesday, 13 December 2023 14:21 (five months ago) link
Ulva Pippy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_MacDonald_(actor)
― Nine Inch Males (Tom D.), Tuesday, 19 December 2023 21:35 (five months ago) link
Marcel Peeper
https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/NagAAOSwC9hcSv~~/s-l1200.webp
― Nine Inch Males (Tom D.), Wednesday, 20 December 2023 09:54 (five months ago) link
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Onions
― budo jeru, Wednesday, 20 December 2023 15:15 (five months ago) link
I may have mentioned that I have a friend whose name is S e r e n e T i c k l e. I only just now learned that she's from P o u l t o n le F y l d e, which just makes it better.
― CthulhuLululemon (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 26 December 2023 04:59 (four months ago) link
Bailey Zappe
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 26 December 2023 20:16 (four months ago) link
Cherokee Pilkington
― Bulky Pee Pants (Tom D.), Tuesday, 16 January 2024 07:28 (four months ago) link
Enjoyed watching Thelonius Aasgard playing alongside Becket Godo for Wigan the other week.
― Piedie Gimbel, Tuesday, 16 January 2024 09:45 (four months ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GEQBpldXgAAWEBo?format=jpg&name=small
― mookieproof, Saturday, 20 January 2024 23:36 (four months ago) link
Zé_Turbo
― anvil, Saturday, 20 January 2024 23:52 (four months ago) link
Wa-Ho-Thuk
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Sunday, 21 January 2024 00:12 (four months ago) link
Avalon FastKansas Bowling
Two women filmmakers
― nickn, Thursday, 8 February 2024 07:13 (three months ago) link