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Post by Verbivore on Aug 23, 2021 4:12:10 GMT
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Post by Verbivore on Aug 26, 2021 23:24:25 GMT
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Post by Verbivore on Sept 11, 2021 20:43:54 GMT
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Post by Verbivore on Sept 25, 2021 21:25:47 GMT
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Post by Twoddle on Sept 26, 2021 10:30:02 GMT
I just knew you that link was heading towards him. What were his parents thinking when they named him?
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Post by Verbivore on Sept 26, 2021 19:49:01 GMT
I just knew you that link was heading towards him. What were his parents thinking when they named him? A chap I knew had the misfortune to be named Justin by his parents whose surname was Case. I sometimes think parents must be either stupid or evil when they name their children. An Aussie advert recently had a chap pondering a name for his newborn son. Midwife: "What are you going to call him, Mr Murray?" Father: "Callum". After a moment's thought, during which various scenes flash through Dad's mind, where his son is mocked for being called Calamari: "Perhaps John".
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Post by Dave Miller on Sept 26, 2021 21:44:42 GMT
I sometimes think parents must be either stupid or evil when they name their children. A quick look at Facebook, Linkedin or Wikipedia will confirm that all too often a Mr and Mrs Head really did call their son Richard …
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Post by Verbivore on Oct 21, 2021 10:16:07 GMT
I thought this must be a gag, but according to numerous business and phone directories it does exist: Passmore Gas & Propane in Arizona. More inaptronym than aptronym? Perhaps the tank's contents are replenished by the blatherings of politicians.
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Post by Verbivore on Oct 29, 2021 1:20:49 GMT
Another inaptronym? Irish athlete Mark English.
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Post by Little Jack Horner on Oct 29, 2021 12:11:57 GMT
I seem to remember reading that there are more people in England called “Ireland” than there are people in Ireland called “English”. I have no idea what this signifies.
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Post by Verbivore on Nov 1, 2021 21:28:29 GMT
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Post by Verbivore on Nov 16, 2021 21:56:12 GMT
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Post by Verbivore on Dec 7, 2021 20:01:59 GMT
A fellow by the name Ken Gamble is a cybercrime investigator working for scammed clients of dodgy cryptocurrency operators. Ah well, if one takes a punt on crypto … .
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Post by Verbivore on Dec 21, 2021 1:11:58 GMT
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Post by Verbivore on Jan 13, 2022 22:14:37 GMT
Here be a few aptronyms for you. 1. American world number 93 tennis player Tennys Sandgren. I found that in a news article about the ongoing kerfuffle over world number 1, Serbian Novak Djokovic, who thought he could come to play in the AU tennis grand slam without being COVID-vaccinated. 2. Consequent upon his notoriety, Djokovic has been given the tag Novax Djocovid, certainly an aptronym. Our politicians have also recently earned some aptronymic monikers: 3. Our prime minister Scott Morrison, for a long time known as ScoMo, has been re-dubbed Scovid, and 4. my state’s premier Dominic Perrottet, who has been in the vanguard of re-opening everything to ‘save’ the economy at the expense of a rapid escalation in infections, has been dubbed Domicron. Numbers 2, 3, and 4 have all been well deserved.
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