Hooker never goes out of style.
My local PBS station sometimes shows a half-hour program about this groundbreaking musician. It includes some nice music too.
Little Johnny Stripper got teased at school about what his mother did for a living. But his classmates were wrong. It was his grandmother who worked at the Kit Kat Club.
I’ve said this before, but we had a pilot whose last name was “Pilot”. He’s retired now.
I also knew a Major Major back when I was in USAF. Of course he’d started out as Lieutenant Major, then Captain Major. We transferred to separate stations so I never found out whether he later became Colonel Major, but it seemed likely he would have.
Chuck Influencer.
This thread reminds me of an old Doctor Who serial, The Face of Evil:
The doctor encounters two tribes of people, the Tesh and the Sevateem, who turn out to be descendants of a long-ago interplanetary expedition composed of technicians (the Tesh) and the survey team (Sevateem).
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I like it! Maybe people will be known by their platforms, like previously people were known by the land they came from.
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Harry MacInsta
James Von TikTok
In Jennifer Government people pretty much go straight corpo, e.g. “Julia Nike-McDonald’s”, “Kate Mattel”
Well now, would that be the County Meath O’Metas or the County Westmeath O’Metas.
Gah! Logged out and back to work when I realized O’Meta is patronymic🤦♂️
Eh, still kinda funny to my ears
I’ve said elsewhere that I sometimes appear in front of Judge Justice.
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My contribution:
Karl T. Cubefarmer.
Or, for Friends fans:
Terry Transponster
Rupert Onlyfans.
It’s ok, so is Mac. Still funny Jessica O’NlyFans
ETA: Jinx! @Wolf333
Could I BE any more amused?
Subway is currently running a contest where a person who agrees to legally change their name to Subway will win a lifetime supply of subs.
It’s a contest because they’re only offering this to one person and they expect a number of people to accept the offer.
burpo_the_Subway_mutt? Sign me up!
I also knew a Major Major back when I was in USAF
A Sgt. Major transferred to our battalion. Ordinarily, an E5 doesn’t have a car waiting for him up at the airport by the battalion commander and straphangers. Something obviously got lost in the translation along the way.
Only semi-related to the OP, the anagram of Mother In Law is Woman Hitler. Hm…
The writer John McPhee spent a year or so on his ancestral island of Colonsay, in the Scottish Hebrides, writing a book called The Crofter and the Laird. About 90% of the islanders were surnamed either MacNeill, Macdonald, or MacPhee, resulting in an onomastic matrix akin to modern Iceland or early medieval Europe; nicknames, occupations, and patronymics were used in place of surnames. (His landlord and host, for example, was Donald MacNeill, son of Gilbert and grandson of Donald. He was known on the island as “Donald Gibbie”, as his father had been known as “Gilbert Donald”. This is exactly the way his ancestors would be named: Dòmhnall mac Gilbeirt mhic Dhomhnaill) The island’s one mailman was universally known as “Angus the Post”. McPhee himself, if memory serves, was “John the American” or “John the Writer”.
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