Have you known anybody (besides Thurl Ravenscroft) named Thurl?
What’s another equally uncommon given name?
How about Bide Turley?
That would make Thurl Turley rather rare, right?
There’s Thurl Bailey, the NBA player, who comes up 7th on my Google search.
Wow! Thurl Quigley gets oodles of hits on Yahoo! Search.
I used to work with a guy who’s given name was Hiawatha. That’s probably not as rare as Thurl or Bide, but you still don’t trip across it much.
Well, there’s Thurlow Weed.
I’ve never known anybody else named “Thudlow,” though.
I’ll give you that! For whatever reason, though, it does remind me of a name that a guy I used to work with said he knew as a kid: T. Holygotham. If you can see the connection, maybe you can explain how that happened to me.
There’s quite a similar mood to all three of those names. I swear I wasn’t thinking of your name (or anyone else’s for that matter) when I started the thread. But for whatever reason the name Thurl just hit me as unusual, and I didn’t even go beyond Mr. Ravenscroft’s link in my original search.
Now that I think a little more about the topic, it might be easier to name the “common” names than the “unusual” ones.
Thanks to both of you, and Smeghead for the input!
Thurl. It thounds like thumpthing you would do after a bad accident and you lost your teeth, and you were so injured and scared you just THURLED right there in the grass nexth to thor smathed-up Lexthus.
Funny, but I keep wanting to replace “Earl” with “Thurl” in many of the places where Earl works:
Thurl Snake-Hips Tucker
My Name is Thurl
The Duke of Thurl
Or how about
Pthurl Bailey
Thurly you jetht, madam…
Well, there’s the sport of “thurling,” which is the ice-sport of curling, only overhand (the name comes from “throw” + “curling”), but it’s incredibly dangerous…
There’s a safer version that uses long sticks to control/ward off the stones, but it’s even less popular. Apparently folks now just find “Rod Thurling” incredibly creepy and macabre.
Doctor, pressing stethoscope to teen girl’s sternum: Mmm-hmm…
Teen girl, blinking and flirting: Mmm…hmm!
Doctor, moving stethoscope to girl’s back: Big Breaths
Teen girl, either misinterpreting or flirting more: Yeth. An I’m only thixteen!
—G! :smack:
Here it is over four months later and I finally get it! Duh!
(I came here to see what I had said about T. Holygotham!)
Vannevar Bush is the only Vannevar in history.
I’ve only ever heard of one Kenesaw.
I knew a guy in high school named Tutek. He claimed it was so rare, he’d beat up anyone who dared to change his name to it