Matt Abts, Allen Woody, Dickey Betts: I bow to all three (re xpost progression from abysmal to awesome), but especially the first, because, yes, say it and you sound like you're having a stroke ("LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, GIVE IT UP FOR)
― dow, Monday, 11 October 2021 21:46 (two years ago) link
Ed Gunts
― A Pile of Ants (Boring, Maryland), Saturday, 6 November 2021 16:10 (two years ago) link
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Gunt
― edited to reflect developments which occurred (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Saturday, 6 November 2021 16:16 (two years ago) link
Turned the page in my beginners piano book and had a laugh: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludvig_Schytte
― Dan I., Sunday, 21 November 2021 19:48 (two years ago) link
Blain Shortreed
― Nedlene Grendel as Basenji Holmo (map), Tuesday, 7 December 2021 21:36 (two years ago) link
Britt raised $3.8 million through the end of September, with contributions from the political operations of Sens. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) and Mike Crapo (R-Idaho)
― calstars, Tuesday, 21 December 2021 18:46 (two years ago) link
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_McQueer
― I Can't See Gervais In My Mind (Tom D.), Friday, 31 December 2021 12:23 (two years ago) link
Likely abysmal person also
https://i.imgur.com/QxQj7ZY.png
― Peter Greenaway's Fleetwood Mac (S-), Wednesday, 19 January 2022 05:47 (two years ago) link
Fr@nk D0d00
― they were written with a ouija board and a rhyming dictionary (Neanderthal), Friday, 28 January 2022 06:38 (two years ago) link
RIP
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Raper
― Hans Holbein (Chinchilla Volapük), Friday, 11 February 2022 05:59 (two years ago) link
RIP Jacques Poos
― Hans Holbein (Chinchilla Volapük), Monday, 21 February 2022 05:01 (two years ago) link
Brent Leggs
― Johnny Mathis der Maler (Boring, Maryland), Monday, 28 February 2022 22:32 (two years ago) link
writer on svu today appears to be called Speed Weed
― koogs, Thursday, 10 March 2022 10:20 (two years ago) link
oh,
Great Real Names
― koogs, Thursday, 10 March 2022 10:22 (two years ago) link
Mordaunt Hall
― made entirely of styrofoam (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Thursday, 17 March 2022 06:43 (two years ago) link
(Constable) Grenville Bint
― made entirely of styrofoam (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Saturday, 23 April 2022 09:05 (two years ago) link
A young Italian tennis player who's just qualified for the main draw at Santa Margherita di Pula is named Benito Massacri.
― anatol_merklich, Tuesday, 3 May 2022 04:15 (two years ago) link
Damian Eggs
― Doodles Diamond (Tom D.), Wednesday, 18 May 2022 23:18 (one year ago) link
J. David Sweatt
― Doodles Diamond (Tom D.), Monday, 30 May 2022 14:25 (one year ago) link
Tenille Arts
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenille_Arts
Sounds like a small college focusing on 70s soft rock and muskrat biology.
― Hans Holbein (Chinchilla Volapük), Saturday, 9 July 2022 05:08 (one year ago) link
Several years ago a family in the local area named their son Walt Disney Christmas:https://www.dorsetecho.co.uk/news/5358651.disney-he-look-like-his-father/
Thus giving him the full name Walt Disney Christmas Pain (his dad's surname is Pain). "Dad Nicholas David, who celebrated his 40th birthday on New Year's Eve, is such a big fan of Disney, he had Snow White and all seven dwarves tattooed on his back at the age of 18." Imagine if that man had been a huge fan of early turbojet designs. He might have called his son Centrifugal Flow Jet Turbine Pain instead.
I used to know someone on Facebook called Lemon Otter, but that is of course a fantastic name: http://www.lemonzingers.co.uk/about-lemon.html
― Ashley Pomeroy, Saturday, 9 July 2022 19:58 (one year ago) link
Boris Johnson
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Saturday, 9 July 2022 20:01 (one year ago) link
Alexander is his real first name btw.
― Eavis Has Left the Building (Tom D.), Saturday, 9 July 2022 20:04 (one year ago) link
Yes, which makes his decision to go by "Boris" even more puzzling.
Also: Elon Musk.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Saturday, 9 July 2022 20:11 (one year ago) link
More memorable. When you say Boris everybody knows who you're referring too. I'm not sure if it's true, but I've heard his family call him Alexander.
― Eavis Has Left the Building (Tom D.), Saturday, 9 July 2022 20:20 (one year ago) link
I always think of "Boris the Spider."
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Saturday, 9 July 2022 20:22 (one year ago) link
Orson Ossman, son of Firesign Theatre member David Ossman. Named after Orson Welles.
― Hideous Lump, Saturday, 9 July 2022 22:01 (one year ago) link
Petronella Wyatt came up yesterday
petronella? middle name Aspasia.
― koogs, Sunday, 10 July 2022 07:56 (one year ago) link
Sebastian Bear-McClard
― Sudden Birdnet Thus (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 19 July 2022 11:18 (one year ago) link
https://drjohnnydrain.com/
― Tom D: panel beater, bouncer and tree surgeon (Tom D.), Saturday, 23 July 2022 13:48 (one year ago) link
Izzy Posen
― peace, man, Sunday, 24 July 2022 10:49 (one year ago) link
Amanda Rock
― (grim) pump track (wales) (map), Wednesday, 7 September 2022 20:26 (one year ago) link
Hatchet M. Speed
― sweating like Cathy *aaaack* (Boring, Maryland), Thursday, 8 September 2022 13:48 (one year ago) link
not so much abysmal but...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ali_Bongo_Ondimba
― koogs, Friday, 9 September 2022 07:43 (one year ago) link
mainly because of this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ali_Bongo_(magician)
― koogs, Friday, 9 September 2022 07:44 (one year ago) link
(drat, even {url} tags didn't fix the missing last ) problem)
― koogs, Friday, 9 September 2022 07:45 (one year ago) link
Can it be fixed by putting it as text within URL quotes?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ali_Bongo_(magician)
― link.exposing.politically (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 9 September 2022 13:03 (one year ago) link
Nope!
― link.exposing.politically (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 9 September 2022 13:04 (one year ago) link
i'm sure i have done it before maybe like this? - using the first example in the formatting
― koogs, Friday, 9 September 2022 21:17 (one year ago) link
That worked on Zing
― sweating like Cathy *aaaack* (Boring, Maryland), Friday, 9 September 2022 21:58 (one year ago) link
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topham_Beauclerk
― koogs, Monday, 12 September 2022 16:55 (one year ago) link
Simultaneously awesome and odd:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roar_Strand
I found that name after reading about another Roar Strand, a fighter pilot:https://www.i-f-s.nl/accidents-incidents-1980/
"During a ground controlled approach to Bodø Airbase, this F-104G suffered a substantial loss of engine power. The pilot, Roar Strand, realised he would not reach the runway and decided to eject. He landed with minor injuries in Valnesfjorden."
So there are or were at least two people in the world called Roar Strand. In fact Roar is apparently not all that unusual - it's the Norwegian equivalent of "Roger" - and there are a tonne of footballers with that name:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roar_(given_name)
Including Roar Christensen, Roar Hagen, Roar Johansen, a different Roar Johansen, and Roar Stokke.
Is Norway one of those places where there's a limited number of names, as in e.g. Iceland? I don't know much about Norway.
― Ashley Pomeroy, Tuesday, 13 September 2022 18:27 (one year ago) link
or e.g. Wales
― Buckfast At Tiffany's (Tom D.), Tuesday, 13 September 2022 18:52 (one year ago) link
Not really limited as such, but heavily subject to trends (as I'm sure is the case elsewhere). To see the popularity of e.g. "Roar", visit the homepage of Statistics Norway, look for "Navnesøk", enter "Roar" and click the button, and you will find that out of Norway's 2,737,332 males, 6,581 have Roar as their first forename. Click the "Historisk utvikling" dropdown, and you'll see that it was particularly popular from about the end of WWII to the early 1970s – with a quite spectacular drop from 1973 to 1974. Intriguing.
― anatol_merklich, Tuesday, 13 September 2022 20:54 (one year ago) link
(Btw, a less-used, Old Norse-inflected variant, is Hroar; 81 men as of now.)
― anatol_merklich, Tuesday, 13 September 2022 20:55 (one year ago) link
d3m4rr g4rdn3r
― ꙮ (map), Monday, 3 October 2022 22:30 (one year ago) link
bl4ne l0gan
― ꙮ (map), Sunday, 6 November 2022 20:39 (one year ago) link
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/5XBNh_5_y1A/maxresdefault.jpg
― Fronted by a bearded Phil Collins (Tom D.), Thursday, 10 November 2022 18:33 (one year ago) link
When they Indigo, I Rumblelow
― nickn, Thursday, 10 November 2022 18:41 (one year ago) link
The name's more twee than abysmal but the association with the Just Stop Oil movement is unfortunate as it fits the media stereotype of a Just Stop Oil activist a bit too neatly.
― Fronted by a bearded Phil Collins (Tom D.), Thursday, 10 November 2022 18:47 (one year ago) link