Great Real Names

Anna Croissant-Rust

that is good

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/

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.

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.

Tamerlin Godley just announced a campaign for city council here.

the local bishop when i was growing up (later to resign due to, surprise surprise, mishandling of sexual abuse allegations) was called Bishop Devine

https://deadspin.com/name-of-the-year-first-round-sithole-regional-1833746158

Pulling for a Truman Peyote v. Jizyah Shorts final

truman lost to storm duck! making the next round vs syncere friends

rigged

Deicide Huxtable ftw

in a just world he would now have a clear path

or...she?

Yes, she! :)

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

man i really need to know how that name happens now

not sure which thread to post this on, but i've now been looped into several emails with T1lly Dunk

ME: you seen this baseball player?
YOU: nah, is he good?
ME: click for name

loool

Devon....Bling? Haha

https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2019/03/04/1745973/0/en/Columbus-Announces-Rock-Lefrançois-as-President-and-CEO.html

oh that link isn't working right. Columbus is a gold mining company. the CEO is called Rock Lefrancois

... to the tune of "Rock the Casbah" obv.

Marnix De Cat

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

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

pouring one out for general booty

Reading a biography of Lester B. Pearson, within the space of a few pages I was introduced to:

Gladwyn Jebb
J. W. Pickersgill
Hume Wrong

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

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

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).

that's 3 for 3 imo

Dr Marijuana Pepsi

http://joy105.com/woman-named-marijuana-pepsi-who-refused-to-change-her-name-earns-her-ph-d-after-completing-dissertation-on-black-names/

kudos

it's the "Dad, why was I named Rose?" "Because your mother loves Roses" meme come to life

Hello, my name is Tito Bosnia. In the last few days, the identity of my name has been viral and widely spoken in the media and social media in Bosnia-Herzegovina

First of all, I would like to confirm that my name is original and certified in my Certificate of Birth

— bosnia tito (@iybos) June 30, 2019

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

Ruud Brood, manager of NAC Breda

Had an email from R0xy Rhodes.

Skip Luckadoo

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

Leone Sextus Denys Oswolf Fraudatifilius Tollemache-Tollemache de Orellana Plantagenet Tollemache-Tollemache

Ah 'hink ah went tae school wi' that cunt.

Leone Sextus Denys Oswolf Fraudatifilius Tollemache-Tollemache de Orellana Plantagenet Tollemache-Tollemache

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/sherm-poppen-a-grandfather-of-snowboarding-dies-at-89/2019/08/11/4ebbc8dc-bc35-11e9-b873-63ace636af08_story.html

https://www.uva.nl/en/profile/j.c.hermes

joke hermes

one time I worked in a bank and there were index cards for "June Bugge" and "Shona Dick" - both married names, even.

so before she got married she was never Shona Dick?

https://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/images/9780252082269_lg.jpg

Kind of unrelated, but in French, Sean Connery is hilarious because Connery sounds like 'connerie', i.e. idiocy, cuntishness, a fuck-up or a trifle.

https://www.uva.nl/en/profile/j.c.hermes🕸

joke hermes