"Wanke's patient craft and superb use of space make 'Caves' one of the year's stongest debuts." Nick Cain, The Wire #295/sept08
― calzino, Thursday, 8 November 2018 00:28 (five years ago) link
Clodovis Boff
― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Friday, 9 November 2018 22:19 (five years ago) link
Lenzy Pipkins
― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 14 November 2018 18:22 (five years ago) link
Orval Faubus
― flappy bird, Saturday, 17 November 2018 03:25 (five years ago) link
our health/safety contact is called un@ b@ulmer
― old yeller-at-clouds (darraghmac), Monday, 26 November 2018 16:10 (five years ago) link
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 years ago) link
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 years ago) link
Well, that's just disappointing.
― Fantasy Eyelid (Old Lunch), Monday, 26 November 2018 18:01 (five years ago) link
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Diplock,_Baron_Diplock
― j., Monday, 26 November 2018 22:33 (five years ago) link
dude has the james bond apostrophe in his name
― twin sinema (voodoo chili), Monday, 26 November 2018 22:39 (five years ago) link
*comma not apostrophe, d'oh!
― twin sinema (voodoo chili), Monday, 26 November 2018 22:40 (five years ago) link
Dick Wetmore, jazz fiddler
― ian, Tuesday, 27 November 2018 23:36 (five years ago) link
Sir Bentley Purchase, British physician and barrister.
― Monica Kindle (Tom D.), Monday, 3 December 2018 15:39 (five years ago) link
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 years ago) link
Maurer Maurer
― macropuente (map), Friday, 21 December 2018 22:53 (five years ago) link
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 (five years ago) link
Stormie Omartian - great name, but could be improved by an apostrophe.
Née Stormie Sherk.
― Hans Holbein (Chinchilla Volapük), Monday, 14 January 2019 18:24 (five years ago) link
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 (five years ago) link
mike tribe
― ogmor, Wednesday, 16 January 2019 14:23 (five years ago) link
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 (five years ago) link
Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
― Only a Factory URL (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 11 February 2019 02:16 (five years ago) link
Rimmer Mulder
― Uptown VONC (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, 11 February 2019 08:06 (five years ago) link
Anna Croissant-Rust
― Mince Pramthwart (James Morrison), Sunday, 17 February 2019 00:11 (five years ago) link
that is good
― flappy bird, Sunday, 17 February 2019 02:10 (five years ago) link
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 (five years ago) link
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 (five years ago) link
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 (five years ago) link
Tamerlin Godley just announced a campaign for city council here.
― nickn, Thursday, 21 February 2019 20:09 (five years ago) link
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 (five years ago) link
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 (five years ago) link
truman lost to storm duck! making the next round vs syncere friends
― nxd, Friday, 5 April 2019 12:35 (five years ago) link
rigged
― d'ILM for Murder (Hadrian VIII), Friday, 5 April 2019 12:37 (five years ago) link
Deicide Huxtable ftw
― Uptown VONC (Le Bateau Ivre), Friday, 5 April 2019 12:55 (five years ago) link
in a just world he would now have a clear path
― d'ILM for Murder (Hadrian VIII), Friday, 5 April 2019 12:57 (five years ago) link
or...she?
― d'ILM for Murder (Hadrian VIII), Friday, 5 April 2019 12:58 (five years ago) link
Yes, she! :)
― Uptown VONC (Le Bateau Ivre), Friday, 5 April 2019 13:00 (five years ago) link
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 (five years ago) link
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 (five years ago) link
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 (five years ago) link
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 (five years ago) link
loool
― these are not all of the possible side effects (Karl Malone), Thursday, 11 April 2019 17:11 (five years ago) link
Devon....Bling? Haha
― imago, Sunday, 14 April 2019 17:01 (five years ago) link
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 (five years ago) link
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 (five years ago) link
... 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 (five years ago) link
Marnix De Cat
― pomenitul, Monday, 22 April 2019 13:46 (four years ago) link
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 (four years ago) link
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 (four years ago) link
pouring one out for general booty
― nxd, Thursday, 2 May 2019 09:57 (four years ago) link
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 (four years ago) link