thought I'd opened the obituary thread and was really confused for a sec
― Doctor Casino, Saturday, 3 October 2020 10:58 (three years ago) link
burying the lede imo
Romanos Lekapenos, born in Lakape (later Laqabin) between Melitene and Samosata (hence the name), was the son of an Armenian peasant[1][2][3] with the remarkable name of Theophylact the Unbearable (Theophylaktos Abastaktos).
― timber euros (seandalai), Sunday, 4 October 2020 01:37 (three years ago) link
Artemisia Gentileschi, Baroque painter: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artemisia_Gentileschi
― I want to luhbahguh babum gum (Leee), Monday, 9 November 2020 19:00 (three 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) November 27, 2020
― fleet doxes (map), Friday, 27 November 2020 02:31 (three years ago) link
Just made an appoinment with an orthopedic surgeon called Dr. Barry Jupiter, MD.
― Deflatormouse, Tuesday, 1 December 2020 01:33 (three years ago) link
do u think when he pees on the toilet seat his wife derisively calls it Drops of Jupiter
― Lover of Nixon (or LON for short) (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 1 December 2020 02:28 (three years ago) link
AnnMarie Y0ung Papa
― Warmed Regards, (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, 7 January 2021 21:39 (three years ago) link
Mother Puttfarcken
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Friday, 8 January 2021 06:15 (three years ago) link
Xerxes Mazda
― Eggbreak Hotel (Tom D.), Tuesday, 12 January 2021 23:02 (three years ago) link
With pick #60, @ChicagoFire select midfielder Mitch Guitar from @BadgerMSoccer. #SuperDraft pic.twitter.com/UCHdpCnPqS— Major League Soccer (@MLS) January 21, 2021
― superdeep borehole (harbl), Saturday, 23 January 2021 01:58 (three years ago) link
Parents shoulda named him Max.
― nickn, Saturday, 23 January 2021 02:11 (three years ago) link
That photo adds a lot to the Mitch Guitar experience
― tobo73, Saturday, 23 January 2021 03:10 (three years ago) link
Huge load of goals for FC Den Bosch today from… Jizz Hornkamp
🇳🇱 FOUR goals in a crazy game for Jizz Hornkamp. pic.twitter.com/E7a3WjAWoe— FotMob (@FotMob) January 30, 2021
― underminer of twenty years of excellent contribution to this borad (dan m), Saturday, 30 January 2021 17:01 (three years ago) link
not a clean sheet in sight
― nxd, Saturday, 30 January 2021 17:42 (three years ago) link
Actual LOL.
― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Saturday, 30 January 2021 17:53 (three years ago) link
Amazing.
And correct me if I'm wrong, but 'Jizz' doesn't appear to be a common name or diminutive in the Netherlands, so I can't even begin to imagine what his parents were thinking.
― pomenitul, Saturday, 30 January 2021 18:10 (three years ago) link
I have never heard of it as a name before, but Mr Hornkamp appears not to be the only one. Meet Jizzy-Joy (who's not a witch):
https://jeugdjournaal.nl/artikel/531804-jizzy-joy-is-geen-heks.html
― Long Tall Arsetee & the Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Saturday, 30 January 2021 18:53 (three years ago) link
oh, and here is Jizz H. himself, literally complaining about his "dry spell" less than three weeks ago:
https://www.bd.nl/fc-den-bosch/fc-den-bosch-spits-jizz-hornkamp-snakt-naar-nieuwe-doelpunten~a731e108/?referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2F
― Long Tall Arsetee & the Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Saturday, 30 January 2021 18:57 (three years ago) link
(well, to be completely honest with you, it's the newspaper that's referring to that dry spell, but why ruin a good story. can't tell if they're using it in a wink-wink nudge-nudge kind of way, it's completely possible that they're playing it straight. think most of the readership wouldn't have picked up on it either way)
― Long Tall Arsetee & the Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Saturday, 30 January 2021 18:58 (three years ago) link
SCOOP: Biden has picked CHIQUITA BROOKS-LaSURE to run the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the sweeping $1 trillion agency that also oversees the Affordable Care Act, say three people with knowledge of decision. https://t.co/9cKKxGqmQv— Dan Diamond (@ddiamond) February 17, 2021
― jaymc, Wednesday, 17 February 2021 20:39 (three years ago) link
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faustin-Archange_Touad%C3%A9ra
― RZA Minnelli (Leee), Monday, 22 February 2021 23:13 (three years ago) link
Sorry if I missed it, but I did a ctrl+F to see if anyone mentioned this one:
Sean Biggerstaff, who played Oliver Wood. A two for one, if you will.
― hourspass, Monday, 22 February 2021 23:16 (three years ago) link
Notker Balbulus, aka Notker the Stammerer
― Hans Holbein (Chinchilla Volapük), Tuesday, 23 February 2021 07:45 (three years ago) link
He was contemporary with the fellow monks Tuotilo and Ratpert.[3][4][5]
― I'm Going to Bring a Watermelon to Mark Grout Tonight (Tom D.), Tuesday, 23 February 2021 09:13 (three years ago) link
loved the strip where Ratpert gave Dilbert murine typhus
― if you meh them, shut up (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 23 February 2021 22:19 (three years ago) link
From a link in the lawyer cat thread:
The British geneticist Oliphant Jackson demonstrated this unequivocally in a most elegant series of classic genetic and radiological experiments in a hospital basement in the 1970s.
― Duncan Disorderly (Tom D.), Monday, 29 March 2021 17:10 (three years ago) link
I learned about this guy while watching the Netflix documentary about the Challenger shuttle disaster:
https://www.c-span.org/person/?judsonlovingood
― underminer of twenty years of excellent contribution to this borad (dan m), Monday, 29 March 2021 17:17 (three years ago) link
Winthrop Cashdollar
― In on the killfile (Boring, Maryland), Thursday, 8 April 2021 20:34 (three years ago) link
so, so close to the right syllables for a "Winchester Cathedral" riff
― sgt. pepper's one-and-only bobo honkin' band (Doctor Casino), Friday, 9 April 2021 01:08 (three years ago) link
Velvet Beard
― In on the killfile (Boring, Maryland), Monday, 12 April 2021 20:39 (three years ago) link
Fartato Olsenhttps://www.imdb.com/name/nm11354979/
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Friday, 23 April 2021 07:01 (three years ago) link
Fashion Sakala
― Authoritarian Steaks (Tom D.), Tuesday, 4 May 2021 15:36 (two years ago) link
Océane Babel
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 18 May 2021 19:58 (two years ago) link
Benedict Hollerbach
― a hoy hoy, Monday, 24 May 2021 07:06 (two years ago) link
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Dickshot
― Elementary, My Dear Hoatzin (Leee), Monday, 24 May 2021 21:21 (two years ago) link
that's Ugly Johnny Dickshot to you
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 25 May 2021 09:16 (two years ago) link
Michael Majestic
― Van Halen dot Senate dot flashlight (Boring, Maryland), Tuesday, 25 May 2021 13:50 (two years ago) link
Susan Spain-Dunk
― Hans Holbein (Chinchilla Volapük), Monday, 7 June 2021 03:37 (two years ago) link
There is someone at work with the first name of Sword (and also someone with the last name Swords). Very strong.
― change display name (Jordan), Monday, 7 June 2021 19:50 (two years ago) link
French Ticknerhttps://tugs.fandom.com/wiki/French_Tickner
― Tracer Hand, Sunday, 13 June 2021 22:08 (two years ago) link
Someone found a credit card in my neighbourhood and posted it to the local Facebook group:
Mr J@y @ Blunt
― Peter Greenaway's Fleetwood Mac (S-), Tuesday, 15 June 2021 02:46 (two years ago) link
Puts me in mind of a terrible terrible pun ala that "Late Arrivals" final round that sometimes appears on BBC Radio 4's 'I'm Sorry, I Haven't A Clue'...
"Please welcome to the Smokers' Ball, Mr. Iain Nigel Alistair Blunt and Mrs. Joy Blunt and their son, I. N. Joy A. Blunt II."
Sorry.
― brain (krakow), Tuesday, 15 June 2021 17:21 (two years ago) link
Perhaps Mr. Blunt's folks were fans
― Peter Greenaway's Fleetwood Mac (S-), Wednesday, 16 June 2021 03:30 (two years ago) link
Zaila Avant-garde
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jul/09/scripps-national-spelling-bee-2021-zaila-avant-garde-becomes-first-african-american-winner
― Piedie Gimbel, Friday, 9 July 2021 06:58 (two years ago) link
awesome name
― Z_TBD (Karl Malone), Friday, 9 July 2021 16:47 (two years ago) link
So I've known about this girl for years and it's for being an absolute hoooooper. Already a huge fan and to now see she won the National Spelling Bee?! Incredible. Check out her IG: https://t.co/cgWMA16Y3nWill probably be our President someday. https://t.co/r1NVxIz23n pic.twitter.com/iU5IKRcd8s— C.J. Toledano (@CJToledano) July 9, 2021
― Z_TBD (Karl Malone), Sunday, 11 July 2021 07:34 (two years ago) link
Many of top Scripps spellers start competing as young as kindergarten. Zaila started only a few years ago, after her father, Jawara Spacetime, watched the bee on TV and realized his daughter's affinity for doing complicated math in her head could translate well to spelling.
― in a bar, under the (seandalai), Sunday, 11 July 2021 13:42 (two years ago) link
Something tells me these are not their birth names.
― Wouldn't disgrace a Michael Jackson (Tom D.), Sunday, 11 July 2021 13:47 (two years ago) link
Forget their names, she is incredible. Her basketball skills are crazy good as well, already. Spelling is like her summer project
― Z_TBD (Karl Malone), Sunday, 11 July 2021 15:39 (two years ago) link
I saw in one of the articles about her that her dad changed her last name to Avant-garde as a tribute to John Coltrane
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Monday, 12 July 2021 13:58 (two years ago) link