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Post by Verbivore on Sept 16, 2016 10:08:52 GMT
I must be going dotty(er?)! I was sure I'd posted this earlier today, but it wasn't here when I checked just now. Early-onset dementia? Nah, you just posted it on the wrong thread. (See colleagues/staff thread.) Told you I was going dotty! :-0
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Post by Verbivore on Nov 1, 2016 10:19:05 GMT
I recently have been driving past a sign, outside a rural house, that declares D Hinged. Carpenter and a phone number; the obvious occurred to me and raised a chuckle. However, I couldn't be certain if the fellow's name was D Hinged or if that was just a punny business name.
Confirmed today: It's his name and initial, suitably capitalising on his aptronymic for a trading name. And because he is trading under his own name, rather than anything else, he doesn't need permission, or business-name registration, or bureaucracy, or trademark ... and so gets to save thousand of dollars in fees.
I've had a deranged mechanic (bloody genius – but mad as a hatter); have worked with myriad "mad" individuals of many colours and styles; and have a few crazy friends still living – crazy in more than a passing sense; so why not a D Hinged carpenter for those pelmets I've been promising myself!
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Post by Verbivore on Nov 17, 2016 22:42:18 GMT
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Post by Verbivore on Nov 21, 2016 10:07:06 GMT
An advert that I proofed at work today: Bruce Black – Chimneysweep. Darkly aptronymic, methunk.
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Post by Verbivore on Nov 21, 2016 22:04:01 GMT
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Post by Verbivore on Feb 17, 2017 2:01:13 GMT
Clare Grafik, head of exhibitions at London’s Photographers’ Gallery
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Post by Verbivore on Feb 23, 2017 8:49:59 GMT
The Reverend Liam Beadle, Yorkshire’s youngest vicar when he took up his role at St Mary’s Anglican Church in Honley, a village of 6,000 people five miles south of Huddersfield.
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Post by Paul Doherty on Feb 28, 2017 17:07:26 GMT
I hadn't realized a beadle was a cleric. I should have realised - I have come across them as the college police officers of Oxford and Cambridge colleges, and as the procession-leader and toastmaster of City Livery Companies - both of which type of institution have largely educational or charitable medieval origins and therefore (now I come to think of it) were closely connected with - or run by - the church. Thanks, Verbivore!
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Post by Verbivore on Mar 19, 2017 8:51:48 GMT
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Post by Little Jack Horner on Mar 19, 2017 8:53:46 GMT
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Post by Verbivore on May 12, 2017 22:59:32 GMT
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Post by Verbivore on May 27, 2017 0:28:00 GMT
A real estate agent Gabrielle TrickeyFits with my experience of real estate agents. At present I'm in dispute with a dastardly dealer over the (non)sale of an inherited property. She's as slimy as a toad. Trickey would be a good name for her.
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Post by Verbivore on Jun 2, 2017 4:32:50 GMT
The warden of St Paul’s College at the University of Sydney is Dr Ivan Head.
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Post by Dave Miller on Jun 2, 2017 6:07:18 GMT
The warden of St Paul’s College at the University of Sydney is Dr Ivan Head. I don't get it. Am I being thick?
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Post by Verbivore on Jun 2, 2017 6:52:00 GMT
The warden of St Paul’s College at the University of Sydney is Dr Ivan Head. I don't get it. Am I being thick? No, Dave, but there might be an institutional difference in what college heads are called. At St Paul's, the head is called the warden. In this case, Dr Head is the warden, hence the head of the college.
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