I know we’ve done name threads to death, but this one came up in today’s crossword puzzle. Athol Fugard? It’s a good thing he grew up in South Africa because he wouldn’t have survived childhood in America’s public schools. C’mere, AthHole. And a corruptible last name to boot. Hey, asshole fucktard!
Yes, I’m very immature.
Crossword fans run into him a lot. It is a strange combination of letters that can be useful.
Our kitchen table and chairs were made by a furniture company called “Athol”. (I think they’re out of business now.) It was a lot of fun a couple of years ago when we were trying to buy an extra couple of chairs. Most furniture store salesmen would give us one of these :dubious: when we told them who the manufacturer was, and then we’d have to spell it for them.
Athol is a town here in Massachusetts:
Not surprising you find the name on furniture – there are and were a lot of furniture companies in central Mass.
Of course, the possibilities of that name weren’t overlooked here. I’ve heard that during the governorship of Endicott “Chub” Peabody in Massachusetts (1963-5), they told the following joke:
Q: Who’s the only person to have four Massachusetts towns named after him?
A: Endicott Peabody — Endicott, Peabody, Marblehead, and Athol.
He deserves that if for no other reason than he insisted on pronouncing it “PEE-buh-dee”. Yeah, and my last name is Bucket, pronounced “Boo-KAY”.
That’s not pretentious – it’s the standard Massachusetts pronunciation of the name (I often claim that the name has no vowels – it’s “Pee-b’dee”). If you go to the town of Peabody and pronounce it as in “Sherman and Peabody”, they’ll know you’re a tourist.
Can you tell me how to get to Cope-ly Square?
Practice!
I submit that this statement makes no sense whatsoever.
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You’re taking him to task because he pronounces his name the way he and everyone in his state has always pronounced it and you think that’s pretentious?
No, I’m making a jape that says “anything Massachusetts does is pretentious”. [foghornleghorn]I say, it’s a joke, son: you’re supposed ta laff![/FH]
You might want to consider using smilies until you’ve figured out how to signal that you’re making a funny.
There was a wrestler known as Lord Athol Layton. Apparently the only true part of the designation was the surname, though – he was no lord, and his actual first name was Allan.
I registered a new patient yesterday: a five year old boy with the first name ‘Dirtag.’
Seriously.
I don’t care if it’s an old family name, or super-wonderful in your ethnic heritage or what. The kid is living in America. Do you REALLY want him to have to go through life being nicknamed Dirtbag???
:rolleyes:
“Athol” is a Scottish place name, although more commonly spelt with two ll’s. There’s an Athol street a couple of blocks from Chez Piper.
The Duke of Atholl is the only person in the United Kingdom who is still authorised to maintain his own private army.
See? You’re doing better already!
Aha! I knew you had a sense of humor lurking in there somewhere! :);)