Great Real Names

Chr1st1an T1ts , works in finance in Belgium

aldrich potgeiter . made the cut at the us open this weekend.

Kobe Bufkin just got drafted by the Atlanta Hawks

Roger Nicely is probably not that great a name, but my inner adolescent is amused.

Madison Marriage

I was recently in the Bahamas, flying into and out of Nassau. I am not sure you are all aware of this, but the airport there is named for the father of Bahamian independence: the honorable and most excellent Sir Lynden Pindling.

It's really quite difficult to be sad while saying the name "Lynden Pindling." Seriously, try it. I have lived a long time. Many tragedies have befallen me and my tribe. However, I have always been made happy while saying the words "snorkel" and "doily." To those, I add the name "Lynden Pindling."

Sure, being in the Bahamas is nice and all. But if the airport in Duluth or Buffalo or Kansas City were named after someone with a resplendent name like Lynden Pindling, I might reconsider those locales as vacation destinations.

^ great post

i've been thinking recently of Eldon Shamblin and Lowman Pauling, two guitarists i really like listening to and who both made important developments to the emergence of rock N roll. they both had great names.

For some reason I’ve begun receiving spam from the Epoch Times newspaper, edited-in-chief by Jasper Fakkert. My man is doing a great job.

Prosper Mérimée

Pete1an P0st
Ing Ing 0ng

Both in the space of 5 mins.

Jethro Wookey

Jade Ball

Speranza Scappucci

Chet Flippo

Helpys Feliz

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HiqY8YK_7pw

Princess Cheese!

Rodolfo Maximiliano Sarzo Lavieille Grande Ruiz Payret y Chaumont

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

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

AKA people whose names sound like the b-sides to obscure British psychedelic singles ca. 1967/1968...

Arthur H. Peppercorn

Harry Buckoke

https://www.discogs.com/release/2111137-Dick-Hyman-Mary-Mayo-Moon-Gas

Alabama State Treasurer Young Boozer

https://1819news.com/news/item/birmingham-southern-state-treasurer-boozer-not-factually-accurate-on-30-million-state-loan-denial

Augustus Egg

Anemona Hartocollis

Robert Fripp's guitar tech Biff Blumfungagnge

Sorry, I misspelled that. It's actually Blumfumgagnge.

Nimrode Pantz

https://dcist.com/story/23/11/14/dc-march-support-israel-mall/

Okay so apparently "Fflyn" is like the actual name of a human person and not a Hobbit or Disney fairy or Vulcan or Narnian faun or whatever.

https://wapo.st/47kVYZx

I give up. I. Just. Give. Up. Carry on without me.

Ff- is a pretty standard way to begin a Welsh name.

It makes more of a regular f sound since a single f sounds more like a v.

So ff is a letter in its own right, after f and before g and ng, which follows g.

Ok. Apologies for the flippant tone.

(But privately I do kinda sorta want to believe that hobbits and leprechauns walk among us.)

No worries. I believe Welsh was one of the languages Tolkien was inspired by when he came up with Elvish.

Okay so for some reason I was googling former Vice President Daniel Tompkins.*

Found this wikigem:

Mangle Minthorne, an assistant alderman of New York City. The couple had eight children, including Arietta Minthorn Tompkins (born July 31, 1800), who married a son of Smith Thompson in 1818, and (Mangle) Minthorne Tompkins (December)

*= Probably because Christmas is coming and Daniel D. Tompkins is mentioned in "Miracle in 34th Street," which is one of the very few Christmas movies that I find even tolerable.

Okay sorry for the digression but seriously: Mangle Minthorne.

Mangle. Minthorne.

Of the New York Minthornes.

Not to be confused with Mangle Minthorne Tompkins, who was a completely different New York politician.

Gay Wimp

Kansas State Census, 1915

— Actual Names (@ActualNames1) November 23, 2023

abysmal real names

...is that mint/horne or minth/orne?

Cuthbert Girdlestone

R4ndy M4ss4gee

Chiquita Seaborne

Altany Craik

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/dec/13/labour-councillor-altany-craik-quits-selection-race-after-concerns-over-sexy-satanic-novels

Ulva Pippy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_MacDonald_(actor)

Marcel Peeper

https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/NagAAOSwC9hcSv~~/s-l1200.webp

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

I may have mentioned that I have a friend whose name is S e r e n e T i c k l e. I only just now learned that she's from P o u l t o n le F y l d e, which just makes it better.

Bailey Zappe

Cherokee Pilkington