In the Navy, there’s a Commander Steamboat Rock.
I think it was categorized as, “Full Time Suffering”. God used him as a demo to show what He would do if you pissed him off.
I kind of hope this one is the opposite:
(pronounced crumble-home)
Back in the 70s there was a gym teacher at our local YMCA named Skip Stress.
Marina Stepanova held the World Record for the 400m hurdles in the 1980s.
Władysław Szpilman, the focus of the movie “The Pianist.”
Szpilman means player or musician .
If you can’t add new information, add a quote.
Job 1:3-5 King James Version (KJV)
His substance also was seven thousand sheep, and three thousand camels, and five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred she asses, and a very great household; so that this man was the greatest of all the men of the east.
I now work on robot arms.
LSLGuy
May 1, 2025, 8:38pm
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I’d suggest that’s maybe cheating, but I’m afraid I might get whacked by a robot arm.
Not exactly the same name as his job, but our local newspaper once had a photographer named Bob Lens.
I just started this job in January.
The nickname goes back decades. It is, in fact, based on my real name, so in a tangential way my name did become my profession.
There was an ornithologist at McGill named David Bird. For a while he had a weekly bird-watching column in one of the local papers.
Al128
May 4, 2025, 2:04am
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space X’s general manager (a woman, whose name escapes me now) - falls into that category as well
Kimstu
May 4, 2025, 3:25am
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Yes, so you said. (And so did the author of post #34 .) Still, it’s an excellent example and bears repeating!
I don’t think the NYC law firm of Lawless & Lynch is around any more, but they are at least adjacent to the thread theme.
Kimstu
May 4, 2025, 3:27am
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Kathy Lueders ? I’m not seeing the connection…
Al128
May 4, 2025, 11:39am
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Gwynne Shotwell (née Rowley, previously Gurevich; born November 23, 1963) is an American businesswoman and engineer. She is the president and chief operating officer of SpaceX, an American space transportation company, where she is responsible for day-to-day operations and company growth.
As of 2023[update], Shotwell is listed as the 28th most powerful woman in the world by Forbes. She was ranked 54th on Fortune's list of Most Powerful Women in 2023. In 2020, Time magazine named her as one of...
(She is president, not GM… I got that wrong )
It’s even more bizarre than that. It was a bet between God and Satan to see if a really righteous person would curse God if made to suffer.
This is OP-adjacent. In 1986 I visited a bank. The teller who helped me was Yvonne Thrifty.
Ďr David Bird is a well-known ornithologist (recently retired) in Montreal.
LSLGuy
May 5, 2025, 5:39pm
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Now he’s been mentioned 6 times.