Lesser known proper name duonym epithets (e.g. debbie downer, chatty kathy) you've heard of or even invented (or thought you invented but turned out was already a thing)

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I've been blaming recent absent-mindedness on my being a "Forgetful Freddy", but it turns out that's a line of kid's books (which I must have forgotten existed HA).

― Philip Nunez, Tuesday, 26 March 2024 17:00 (one month ago) link

Doubting Thomas
Dirty Diana
Fancy Nancy
Even Steven
Odd Todd

― President Keyes, Tuesday, 26 March 2024 17:10 (one month ago) link

I guess those aren’t lesser known

― President Keyes, Tuesday, 26 March 2024 17:11 (one month ago) link

Dirty Diana is new to me and I'm imagining it's some Rupert Murdoch tabloid invention.

― Philip Nunez, Tuesday, 26 March 2024 17:17 (one month ago) link

This song, by an obscure now deceased artist, was mildly popular in its day:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUi_S6YWjZw

― Slorg is not on the Slerf Team, you idiot, you moron (Boring, Maryland), Tuesday, 26 March 2024 17:26 (one month ago) link

nervous nelly

― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Tuesday, 26 March 2024 17:27 (one month ago) link

Polly Popular

― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 26 March 2024 17:28 (one month ago) link

re: dirty MJ, oof what an oblivious oliver I am

― Philip Nunez, Tuesday, 26 March 2024 17:34 (one month ago) link

Apartheid Clyde

― cozen itt (wins), Tuesday, 26 March 2024 17:35 (one month ago) link

I feel like that one would have made the first round of a Garbage Pail Kids series but some cigar-chomping Topps executive would have nixed the thing.

― Philip Nunez, Tuesday, 26 March 2024 17:40 (one month ago) link

Steady Eddie

― Tom D (the first British Asian ILXor) (Tom D.), Tuesday, 26 March 2024 17:46 (one month ago) link

silly billy
gorgeous george
hooray henry

busy or bizzie lizzie is however only a flower (impatiens walleriana)

― mark s, Tuesday, 26 March 2024 17:48 (one month ago) link

There was a whole thing on social media lately where people didn't believe that SNL coined (or at least greatly popularized) Debbie Downer, and I thought it might've been because they were conflating it with Negative Nancy.

― jaymc, Tuesday, 26 March 2024 17:49 (one month ago) link

Dan the Man

― President Keyes, Tuesday, 26 March 2024 17:51 (one month ago) link

Nasty Nigel

or if you copied DVDs knock-off Nigel

― Dan Worsley, Tuesday, 26 March 2024 17:52 (one month ago) link

Thank y

― Dan Worsley, Tuesday, 26 March 2024 17:52 (one month ago) link

Thank you President Keyes!

― Dan Worsley, Tuesday, 26 March 2024 17:53 (one month ago) link

Holy Joe

― Tom D (the first British Asian ILXor) (Tom D.), Tuesday, 26 March 2024 17:53 (one month ago) link

weary willie and tired tim

https://cafans.b-cdn.net/images/Category_13429/subcat_154084/AHCsN4G2_0711161256241gpadd.jpg

― mark s, Tuesday, 26 March 2024 17:58 (one month ago) link

i realise characters in comics is a slightly different thing, but "weary willies and tired tims" did become a derisive epiphet in the early 20th century for the collectively unenthusiastic so

― mark s, Tuesday, 26 March 2024 18:03 (one month ago) link

Billy No Mates

― Tom D (the first British Asian ILXor) (Tom D.), Tuesday, 26 March 2024 18:05 (one month ago) link

Clever Dick

― Tom D (the first British Asian ILXor) (Tom D.), Tuesday, 26 March 2024 18:13 (one month ago) link

Thuggish Douglas

― meatster of puppets (peace, man), Tuesday, 26 March 2024 18:17 (one month ago) link

Lugless Douglas

― Tom D (the first British Asian ILXor) (Tom D.), Tuesday, 26 March 2024 18:20 (one month ago) link

Shakey Jake

― budo jeru, Tuesday, 26 March 2024 18:23 (one month ago) link

Suspicious Aloysius

― budo jeru, Tuesday, 26 March 2024 18:25 (one month ago) link

my favourite is Johnny Concrete

― Bitchin Doutai (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 26 March 2024 18:26 (one month ago) link

johnnys and johns and jacks and joes are a whole universe... Johnny on-the-spot, Joe Cool, Joe Public, John Q. Public... I do think they fit in this thread but they strain it in a slightly different direction

― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Tuesday, 26 March 2024 18:45 (one month ago) link

Joe Blow

― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 26 March 2024 19:00 (one month ago) link

Dumb Dora for you Match Game fans

― Hideous Lump, Tuesday, 26 March 2024 20:58 (one month ago) link

Negative Nancy

― donna rouge, Tuesday, 26 March 2024 21:00 (one month ago) link

Oh oops didn’t see jaymc mentioned that one

― donna rouge, Tuesday, 26 March 2024 21:01 (one month ago) link

the gus twins, gloomy and grumpy

― ን (nabisco), Tuesday, 26 March 2024 21:07 (one month ago) link

Sweaty Betty

― m0stly clean (Slowsquatch), Tuesday, 26 March 2024 21:15 (one month ago) link

Goofy Gus

― MarkoP, Tuesday, 26 March 2024 21:17 (one month ago) link

Clever Dan (which I'm pretty sure is just a Homestar Runner thing)

― MarkoP, Tuesday, 26 March 2024 21:19 (one month ago) link

since we've reached the guses:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Cp7-mqmVYAAxONF.jpg

― mark s, Tuesday, 26 March 2024 21:20 (one month ago) link

Moaning Minnie

― The Prime of the Ancient Minister (Tom D.), Tuesday, 26 March 2024 21:51 (one month ago) link

"Debbie Downer" definitely predates the SNL character

― Slorg is not on the Slerf Team, you idiot, you moron (Boring, Maryland), Tuesday, 26 March 2024 21:57 (one month ago) link

Billy Big Bollocks

― The Prime of the Ancient Minister (Tom D.), Tuesday, 26 March 2024 22:45 (one month ago) link

I thought that was Bertie Big Bollocks

― two-one-one-two (Matt #2), Tuesday, 26 March 2024 22:46 (one month ago) link

Years ago my group of friends started saying the "wrong" names like "Hungry Marvin" (instead of starving Marvin) or "Equal Stevens" (instead of even Stevens), to the point where i say these by default and always will

― your mom goes to limgrave (dog latin), Tuesday, 26 March 2024 22:49 (one month ago) link

Tiny Tim
Baseball Annie

― felicity, Tuesday, 26 March 2024 22:50 (one month ago) link

"Debbie Downer" definitely predates the SNL character

I'm pretty sure they came up with "Puppy Uppers" and "Doggy Downers," though.

― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 26 March 2024 22:51 (one month ago) link

Calamity Jane
Typhoid Mary

― felicity, Tuesday, 26 March 2024 22:53 (one month ago) link

fancy dan

― Bernard Quidbins (NickB), Tuesday, 26 March 2024 22:58 (one month ago) link

"fanny anna" was one that my mum used to say a lot

― Bernard Quidbins (NickB), Tuesday, 26 March 2024 22:58 (one month ago) link

arfur cunt, as in "you ain't arfur cunt"

― Bernard Quidbins (NickB), Tuesday, 26 March 2024 23:01 (one month ago) link

flash 'arry

― Bernard Quidbins (NickB), Tuesday, 26 March 2024 23:01 (one month ago) link

'Stuttering Stanley' from the Sixth Sense, used ironically because is it even a phrase?

― kinder, Tuesday, 26 March 2024 23:06 (one month ago) link

dirty gerty

― Bernard Quidbins (NickB), Tuesday, 26 March 2024 23:12 (one month ago) link

tricky dicky

― Bernard Quidbins (NickB), Tuesday, 26 March 2024 23:13 (one month ago) link

filthy herbert

― Bernard Quidbins (NickB), Tuesday, 26 March 2024 23:17 (one month ago) link

dapper dan
joe sixpack
amanda huggenkiss

― mookieproof, Tuesday, 26 March 2024 23:22 (one month ago) link

Dicky Mint

― The Prime of the Ancient Minister (Tom D.), Tuesday, 26 March 2024 23:29 (one month ago) link

Cracklin' Rosie

― felicity, Tuesday, 26 March 2024 23:57 (one month ago) link

Jack Tar

― The Prime of the Ancient Minister (Tom D.), Tuesday, 26 March 2024 23:58 (one month ago) link

Nobby Clark

― your mom goes to limgrave (dog latin), Wednesday, 27 March 2024 00:07 (one month ago) link

Scott Nomates surely makes more sense than Billy Nomates

― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Wednesday, 27 March 2024 00:10 (one month ago) link

It does but I suppose Billy sounds more English than Scott.

― The Prime of the Ancient Minister (Tom D.), Wednesday, 27 March 2024 00:13 (one month ago) link

Dusty Miller

― your mom goes to limgrave (dog latin), Wednesday, 27 March 2024 00:13 (one month ago) link

This isn't exactly on point, but my grandmother used to describe some people as "Rebecca from Sunnybrook Farm." I'm still not at all sure what it means.

― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 27 March 2024 00:17 (one month ago) link

Jack the lad

― two-one-one-two (Matt #2), Wednesday, 27 March 2024 00:20 (one month ago) link

Sidewalk Sally

― The Prime of the Ancient Minister (Tom D.), Wednesday, 27 March 2024 00:31 (one month ago) link

Johnny Come Lately

― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Wednesday, 27 March 2024 03:55 (one month ago) link

All I remember about Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm is that she had a nemesis named Minnie Smellie who was a bully, and she (Rebecca) passed her a note in class that said, "Of all the girls that are so mean/ there's none like Minnie Smellie / I'll take away the gift I gave/ and pound her into jelly."

― Lily Dale, Wednesday, 27 March 2024 04:17 (one month ago) link

still using Charlie Farley as a stand-in for 'that bloke'

― Bernard Quidbins (NickB), Wednesday, 27 March 2024 12:01 (one month ago) link

Dudley Do-Right

― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 27 March 2024 12:02 (one month ago) link

Hungry Horace.

― The Prime of the Ancient Minister (Tom D.), Wednesday, 27 March 2024 12:12 (one month ago) link

Benny Hill had a song called "Fad Eyed Fal" - not sure if anyone was ever called that

Juicy Lucy

― Josefa, Wednesday, 27 March 2024 12:43 (one month ago) link

Joe bloggs

― Bernard Quidbins (NickB), Wednesday, 27 March 2024 13:00 (one month ago) link

Johnny Foreigner

― The Prime of the Ancient Minister (Tom D.), Wednesday, 27 March 2024 13:05 (one month ago) link

Smart Alec

― Josefa, Wednesday, 27 March 2024 13:07 (one month ago) link

Nervous Pervis
Never-nervous Pervis

― ヽ（´ー｀）┌ (CompuPost), Wednesday, 27 March 2024 13:19 (one month ago) link

nitty nora

― Bernard Quidbins (NickB), Wednesday, 27 March 2024 13:21 (one month ago) link

dilly daydream

― Bernard Quidbins (NickB), Wednesday, 27 March 2024 13:28 (one month ago) link

Any old Tom, Dick and Harry

― m0stly clean (Slowsquatch), Wednesday, 27 March 2024 14:06 (one month ago) link

I'm fairly sure there's some racial/ethnic examples, probably best forgotten though

― squirm baby squirm (Matt #2), Wednesday, 27 March 2024 14:20 (one month ago) link

This former coworker, an old army vet, would heave an exasperated sigh whenever tasked by a female superior to do anything whatsoever. Proud to have dubbed him ...

Sergeant Sizemore

― Briania, Wednesday, 27 March 2024 14:25 (one month ago) link

Lizzy Dripping was a midly terrifying tv show of the early 70s, but also a north midlands term for a daydreamer, I believe.

Billy Whizz.

Clever Trevor - feel like all of these are or are potentially Ian Dury song titles.

― Maggy Scraggle, Wednesday, 27 March 2024 14:28 (one month ago) link

https://i.imgur.com/1MijI40.jpeg

― calstars, Wednesday, 27 March 2024 14:41 (one month ago) link

Good time Charlie
Champagne Charlie

― The Prime of the Ancient Minister (Tom D.), Wednesday, 27 March 2024 15:51 (one month ago) link

Dozy Dave

― squirm baby squirm (Matt #2), Wednesday, 27 March 2024 16:17 (one month ago) link

little tich

― mark s, Wednesday, 27 March 2024 16:35 (one month ago) link

doesn't quite work i know, but tich is short for tichborne (the original tichborne being a very large person)

― mark s, Wednesday, 27 March 2024 16:37 (one month ago) link

My other half uses 'Snotty Lottie' occasionally

― Maresn3st, Wednesday, 27 March 2024 17:10 (one month ago) link

Sneaky Pete

― m0stly clean (Slowsquatch), Wednesday, 27 March 2024 17:12 (one month ago) link

Maybe there's a subgenre reserved exclusively for toddlers and dogs
"Who's a Poopy McPooppants? You are!"

― Philip Nunez, Wednesday, 27 March 2024 21:15 (one month ago) link

Plain Jane

― squirm baby squirm (Matt #2), Wednesday, 27 March 2024 21:19 (one month ago) link

All I remember about Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm is that she had a nemesis named Minnie Smellie who was a bully, and she (Rebecca) passed her a note in class that said, "Of all the girls that are so mean/ there's none like Minnie Smellie / I'll take away the gift I gave/ and pound her into jelly."

I'm even more baffled now

― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 27 March 2024 21:53 (one month ago) link

Rebecca of Stonecold Farm

― President Keyes, Wednesday, 27 March 2024 21:58 (one month ago) link

Honest John
Average Joe

― The Prime of the Ancient Minister (Tom D.), Wednesday, 27 March 2024 22:01 (one month ago) link

Joe Shmoe

― The Prime of the Ancient Minister (Tom D.), Wednesday, 27 March 2024 22:02 (one month ago) link

Merv the Perv
Lucy Goosey
Sally Two Jobs
Kirk the Jerk

― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Wednesday, 27 March 2024 22:05 (one month ago) link

Greenbean Jean

― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Wednesday, 27 March 2024 22:07 (one month ago) link

Chester the Molester

― Hideous Lump, Wednesday, 27 March 2024 22:17 (one month ago) link

"I get your angle. Every Joe Meatball and Sally Housecoat in this
God-forsaken state will see me hunkering down for chow with Eddie
Punchclock!"

― m0stly clean (Slowsquatch), Wednesday, 27 March 2024 22:28 (one month ago) link

Screaming Mimi

― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Wednesday, 27 March 2024 23:06 (one month ago) link

Deadeye Dick

― squirm baby squirm (Matt #2), Wednesday, 27 March 2024 23:38 (one month ago) link

Art Library Rebecca

― calstars, Thursday, 28 March 2024 00:46 (one month ago) link

Hugh Jassole

― calstars, Thursday, 28 March 2024 03:18 (one month ago) link

Buster Bloodvessel

― Ippei's on a bummer now (WmC), Thursday, 28 March 2024 03:21 (one month ago) link

Lena the Hyena

See: https://www.toonopedia.com/lena.htm

― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Thursday, 28 March 2024 03:24 (one month ago) link

Oh dang, that's the lady from Roger Rabbit.

https://i.gifer.com/fetch/w300-preview/71/71c78db0404f7698d8eeee17ceb9304c.gif

― meatster of puppets (peace, man), Thursday, 28 March 2024 11:08 (one month ago) link

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