― Ed (dali), Thursday, 24 April 2003 05:56 (sixteen years ago) Permalink
― jess (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 24 April 2003 06:02 (sixteen years ago) Permalink
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― Sébastien Chikara (Sébastien Chikara), Thursday, 24 April 2003 06:25 (sixteen years ago) Permalink
Among ilxen, Ned and Matos and Martin and Lara have damn cool names, and if I'm remembering Ally's full name correctly, she sounds like a Barbara Stanwyck character.
― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 24 April 2003 06:31 (sixteen years ago) Permalink
― James Ball (James Ball), Thursday, 24 April 2003 06:40 (sixteen years ago) Permalink
ps he is a dick
― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 24 April 2003 07:37 (sixteen years ago) Permalink
anyway.. i used to work for a multinational company which had a searchable online name and address book. So we used to have office competitions to find the best names..
So. here we go with some of the best (and these are real employees)
Nick SexShirley ShallowTory S GaylordRicardo CuntoEduardo BastardoEric CartmanMindy Smelkinson
there were loads more but i can't remember them right now...
― A Nonymous (Jack Battery-Pack), Thursday, 24 April 2003 08:15 (sixteen years ago) Permalink
He was a great authour, too.
― fletrejet, Thursday, 24 April 2003 10:05 (sixteen years ago) Permalink
― hstencil, Thursday, 24 April 2003 12:45 (sixteen years ago) Permalink
― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 24 April 2003 12:49 (sixteen years ago) Permalink
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 24 April 2003 12:49 (sixteen years ago) Permalink
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― buttch (Oops), Thursday, 24 April 2003 13:48 (sixteen years ago) Permalink
Not as crowd-pleasing perhaps, but there's a statue in Madison Square in New York of a man named Roscoe Conkling.
― Nemo (JND), Thursday, 24 April 2003 13:59 (sixteen years ago) Permalink
― Chris V. (Chris V), Thursday, 24 April 2003 14:06 (sixteen years ago) Permalink
― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 24 April 2003 14:16 (sixteen years ago) Permalink
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― martin mushrush (mushrush), Thursday, 24 April 2003 14:22 (sixteen years ago) Permalink
-- jess
Oh, and my middle school band director was named Rufus Long.
― martin mushrush (mushrush), Thursday, 24 April 2003 14:23 (sixteen years ago) Permalink
― hstencil, Thursday, 24 April 2003 14:25 (sixteen years ago) Permalink
Went to school with a girl who's last name was Sexe (p. "sexy") She was, too.
Geoffrey Stuart Cannon is such a bizarre formal name sometimes I can't really believe it's mine (heh "feeling slightly disconnected from one's own name c/d")
― g--ff c-nn-n (gcannon), Thursday, 24 April 2003 14:26 (sixteen years ago) Permalink
― martin mushrush (mushrush), Thursday, 24 April 2003 14:28 (sixteen years ago) Permalink
RAGGETT: "Tell me where's your fancy bread.I need it for me, and I'm called Ned."
Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, Lord Dunsany
Seconding Fletrjet on both the name and his writing.
Working at a university as I do, I've come across many a mysteriously cool name. Current favorites, with slight non-google alterations (as these are folks I am currently having to bill for late books): the very Thai (I believe) Nar1n Charanvattank1t, the quite Scottish yet somehow naughty 1an Mu1r Duckles and the prime winner, someone I can only guess is from an Arabic/Dutch family of some sort, Azareen Vandervl1et Oloom1.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 24 April 2003 14:46 (sixteen years ago) Permalink
― g--ff c-nn-n (gcannon), Thursday, 24 April 2003 14:49 (sixteen years ago) Permalink
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― slutsky (slutsky), Thursday, 24 April 2003 17:36 (sixteen years ago) Permalink
Also, I saw a guy named John Hancock, which is not all that unusual, but I wonder if he would make his signature an exact forgery of the founding father of the same name.
― cprek (cprek), Thursday, 24 April 2003 18:13 (sixteen years ago) Permalink
At work today the person who I was given as a sample that would show a particular system error was Mr Doh. I like to imagine that to say his name correctly you have to slap your forehead.
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Thursday, 24 April 2003 20:27 (sixteen years ago) Permalink
― martin mushrush (mushrush), Thursday, 24 April 2003 20:37 (sixteen years ago) Permalink
― slutsky (slutsky), Thursday, 24 April 2003 20:48 (sixteen years ago) Permalink
― Matt (Matt), Thursday, 24 April 2003 20:59 (sixteen years ago) Permalink
― M Matos (M Matos), Friday, 25 April 2003 06:00 (sixteen years ago) Permalink
i loved that thread, largely because spectra got so into it! :)
― ron (ron), Friday, 25 April 2003 06:15 (sixteen years ago) Permalink
― Chriddof (Chriddof), Friday, 25 April 2003 11:51 (sixteen years ago) Permalink
Mr Dickie & Miss K Titmus
― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Thursday, 1 May 2003 09:27 (sixteen years ago) Permalink
― mitch lastnamewithheld (mitchlnw), Thursday, 1 May 2003 10:00 (sixteen years ago) Permalink
our health/safety contact is called un@ b@ulmer
― old yeller-at-clouds (darraghmac), Monday, 26 November 2018 16:10 (five months ago) Permalink
I've recently learned that the surname 'Biggerstaff' exists. Very curious about the etymological origins.
― Fantasy Eyelid (Old Lunch), Monday, 26 November 2018 16:15 (five months ago) Permalink
If it’s related to Bickerstaffe, it’s from the name of a village in Lancashire, unfortunately.
― Madchen, Monday, 26 November 2018 17:58 (five months ago) Permalink
Well, that's just disappointing.
― Fantasy Eyelid (Old Lunch), Monday, 26 November 2018 18:01 (five months ago) Permalink
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Diplock,_Baron_Diplock
― j., Monday, 26 November 2018 22:33 (five months ago) Permalink
dude has the james bond apostrophe in his name
― twin sinema (voodoo chili), Monday, 26 November 2018 22:39 (five months ago) Permalink
*comma not apostrophe, d'oh!
― twin sinema (voodoo chili), Monday, 26 November 2018 22:40 (five months ago) Permalink
Dick Wetmore, jazz fiddler
― ian, Tuesday, 27 November 2018 23:36 (five months ago) Permalink
Sir Bentley Purchase, British physician and barrister.
― Monica Kindle (Tom D.), Monday, 3 December 2018 15:39 (five months ago) Permalink
what type of car did he drive
― We're in 2009—it's time to take risks, (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 3 December 2018 15:40 (five months ago) Permalink
Maurer Maurer
― macropuente (map), Friday, 21 December 2018 22:53 (four months ago) Permalink
Dear Santa, You better bring me what I want or when I see you I will take your head off. Hoping to get my stuff. Your loving kid, Hexie Bunsclos Indiana1910— R.L. Ripples (@TweetsofOld) December 23, 2018
― flappy bird, Sunday, 23 December 2018 22:51 (four months ago) Permalink
Stormie Omartian - great name, but could be improved by an apostrophe.
Née Stormie Sherk.
― Hans Holbein (Chinchilla Volapük), Monday, 14 January 2019 18:24 (four months ago) Permalink
In 1880 there were 8 Monkydick families living in Ohio. This was 100% of all the recorded Monkydicks in the USA.
― mick signals, Wednesday, 16 January 2019 04:38 (four months ago) Permalink
mike tribe
― ogmor, Wednesday, 16 January 2019 14:23 (four months ago) Permalink
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-nepal-crash-idUSKCN1PM0ICBuddhisagar Lamichhane
― Only a Factory URL (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 28 January 2019 21:00 (three months ago) Permalink
Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
― Only a Factory URL (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 11 February 2019 02:16 (three months ago) Permalink
Rimmer Mulder
― Uptown VONC (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, 11 February 2019 08:06 (three months ago) Permalink
Anna Croissant-Rust
― Mince Pramthwart (James Morrison), Sunday, 17 February 2019 00:11 (three months ago) Permalink
that is good
― flappy bird, Sunday, 17 February 2019 02:10 (three months ago) Permalink
I went to a native California plant garden tour today and the expert there (not the garden owner) was named Orchid Black. I didn't have the nerve t o ask her if that was her real name or her online identity. At first I thought that she picked the name from that UK series but when I got home and googled it I saw that the series is Orphan Black. In my search I found that there are indeed black orchids, so maybe Mr and Mrs Black named their daughter Orchid.
http://www.wallpapers13.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Black-Orchid-Flower-Pictures.jpg
https://nativesanctuary.wordpress.com/
― nickn, Sunday, 17 February 2019 05:14 (three months ago) Permalink
Horticulture is an absolute treasure trove of nominative determinism. Clay Jones, Pippa Greenwood and Bob Flowerdew are/were all regular panellists on the BBC’s Gardener’s Question Time radio programme.
― Madchen, Sunday, 17 February 2019 07:48 (three months ago) Permalink
I had a grade 4 student from Africa about 20 years ago whose name was Suyi Georgewill. He went on to have some success in track & field:
http://southernmiss.com/roster.aspx?rp_id=3816
Not sure how he felt about baseball or Ronald Reagan.
― clemenza, Sunday, 17 February 2019 18:03 (three months ago) Permalink
Tamerlin Godley just announced a campaign for city council here.
― nickn, Thursday, 21 February 2019 20:09 (two months ago) Permalink
the local bishop when i was growing up (later to resign due to, surprise surprise, mishandling of sexual abuse allegations) was called Bishop Devine
― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 21 February 2019 20:12 (two months ago) Permalink
https://deadspin.com/name-of-the-year-first-round-sithole-regional-1833746158
Pulling for a Truman Peyote v. Jizyah Shorts final
― d'ILM for Murder (Hadrian VIII), Friday, 5 April 2019 12:27 (one month ago) Permalink
truman lost to storm duck! making the next round vs syncere friends
― nxd, Friday, 5 April 2019 12:35 (one month ago) Permalink
rigged
― d'ILM for Murder (Hadrian VIII), Friday, 5 April 2019 12:37 (one month ago) Permalink
Deicide Huxtable ftw
― Uptown VONC (Le Bateau Ivre), Friday, 5 April 2019 12:55 (one month ago) Permalink
in a just world he would now have a clear path
― d'ILM for Murder (Hadrian VIII), Friday, 5 April 2019 12:57 (one month ago) Permalink
or...she?
― d'ILM for Murder (Hadrian VIII), Friday, 5 April 2019 12:58 (one month ago) Permalink
Yes, she! :)
― Uptown VONC (Le Bateau Ivre), Friday, 5 April 2019 13:00 (one month ago) Permalink
Within a few weeks of starting my first call-centre job I took a call from a 'Ramjam Funkyboogaloo-Smythe', which I was certain was a stitch up by one of my colleagues. I totally forgot about this for decades until this thread appeared, and a quick google has proved that:
1. The guy very much exists, and is a semi-pro sabre fencer.2. One of his kids has the most badass name ever. I present to you: https://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Determinism_and_Moral_Responsibility.html?id=lsoeswEACAAJ&redir_esc=y
― raise my chicken finger (Willl), Friday, 5 April 2019 13:14 (one month ago) Permalink
man i really need to know how that name happens now
― they're not booing you, sir, they're shouting "Boot Edge Edge" (Will M.), Friday, 5 April 2019 15:38 (one month ago) Permalink
not sure which thread to post this on, but i've now been looped into several emails with T1lly Dunk
― Lil' Brexit (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 11 April 2019 14:41 (one month ago) Permalink
ME: you seen this baseball player?YOU: nah, is he good?ME: click for name
― they're not booing you, sir, they're shouting "Boot Edge Edge" (Will M.), Thursday, 11 April 2019 15:59 (one month ago) Permalink
loool
― these are not all of the possible side effects (Karl Malone), Thursday, 11 April 2019 17:11 (one month ago) Permalink
Devon....Bling? Haha
― imago, Sunday, 14 April 2019 17:01 (one month ago) Permalink
https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2019/03/04/1745973/0/en/Columbus-Announces-Rock-Lefrançois-as-President-and-CEO.html
― findom haddie (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 17 April 2019 17:26 (one month ago) Permalink
oh that link isn't working right. Columbus is a gold mining company. the CEO is called Rock Lefrancois
― findom haddie (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 17 April 2019 17:27 (one month ago) Permalink
... to the tune of "Rock the Casbah" obv.
― Do you like 70s hard rock with a guitar hero? (Tom D.), Wednesday, 17 April 2019 17:28 (one month ago) Permalink
Marnix De Cat
― pomenitul, Monday, 22 April 2019 13:46 (three weeks ago) Permalink
what a corker! v apt that he's a countertenor too https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/p__/images/e/e8/Felix_The_Cat.png/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/350?cb=20171228095408&path-prefix=protagonist
― ogmor, Tuesday, 23 April 2019 09:01 (three weeks ago) Permalink
Final Four:
—Storm Duck—Pope Thrower—Jizyah Shorts—Chastity Gooch-Fant
https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--K3_RATwV--/c_scale,dpr_2.0,f_auto,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/i7ivorfl7uiolw5x96db.png
― d'ILM for Murder (Hadrian VIII), Wednesday, 1 May 2019 17:20 (two weeks ago) Permalink
pouring one out for general booty
― nxd, Thursday, 2 May 2019 09:57 (two weeks ago) Permalink
Reading a biography of Lester B. Pearson, within the space of a few pages I was introduced to:
Gladwyn JebbJ. W. PickersgillHume Wrong
― Hans Holbein (Chinchilla Volapük), Saturday, 4 May 2019 23:15 (two weeks ago) Permalink
The ability to cook and bake with the liquid from canned beans was discovered only two years ago by Goose Wohlt, a vegan American software engineer who was attempting to create eggless meringues for his mother's Passover seder. Wohlt found that the liquid from garbanzo beans, or chickpeas, could be whipped and used as an egg replacer. He called the bean liquid aquafaba
― lispectah deck (unregistered), Sunday, 5 May 2019 20:35 (two weeks ago) Permalink
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nestor_El_Maestro
― findom haddie (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 14 May 2019 20:54 (five days ago) Permalink
As the major title winners struggled to take advantage, Johnson was joined on five under by relatively unknown Americans Harold Varner III (67) and Luke List (69) and Thailand's Jazz Janewattananond (67).
― imago, Saturday, 18 May 2019 23:27 (yesterday) Permalink
that's 3 for 3 imo