I knew a Doctor. He wasn’t one. But he did have cancer; I didn’t have the nerve to ask if there had ever been any confusion during treatment.
And a friend of my daughter’s is named K. Just K. (She does have a last name.) She doesn’t have a corporate job, which is probably good, as I can see IT refusing to set up her access “because we need her full name”.
This is nothing much by the standards of the thread, but there’s a moderately well known Victorian era book called Flatland, written by one Edwin A. Abbott.
I just now discovered that the A stands for … Abbott!
I saw an invoice yesterday from a consultant whose last name is Swindler.
I wonder if he uses the phrase “With a name like Swindler, he has to be good!”
Once knew a guy named Tom Harry. Guess what his middle name was.
Couple of actors. Marjoe Gortner. With a name like that you figure Ernest Borgnine, but he played rock stars and such. Scoey Mitchlll was another good one.
I once met a Nigerian woman named Mylove. This is not a traditional African name; rather her parents were enamored of the English phrase “My love” so that’s what they named her. She was quite nice, so it fit.
Saw a lot of names when working a checkstand at Safeway (we were required to thank everyone by name whenever possible), but the one that I always remember is a check from a couple named “Courtney Beaver” and “Matt Wood.”
I know a man named Tommy Thomas.
I’ve long wondered, but never actually asked, if his name is in fact Thomas Thomas.
I thought I’d posted this one already in this thread, but I don’t see it, so…
A couple of years ago, a college friend of mine, who lives in Iowa, posted an article about a prostitution ring in Iowa City, which had been broken up by the police. One of the women charged with prostitution was named Amanda Guzzle. Either that’s a nom de hooker, or she was predestined for her career.
From another SD thread:
A surviving former Alcatraz inmate is named “Virgil Crymes”.
My niece was telling me about her friends having a baby boy. They named him Lightning.
Sorry, couldn’t resist.
ETA: maybe they are mods.
ETA2: mods as in modernists (see Quadrophenia), not something like SDMB mods.
No, I specifically asked if they’re blues fans. I was told they just thought the name sounded cool.
Was watching an old movie on TCM with Nina Foch, and they said the original Dutch spelling of her name was Fock. The studio made her change it.
Here, I just filled up another diary page with odd names.
Larry Householder former speaker of the Ohio house
Ted Yohg Congressman from Florida
Quinton Lucas City manager of Kansas City
Zealous Bates Tower First in his class USMA 1841
Brigadier General Charles F Tank of the US Army Quartermaster Corps in WWII
Colonel Thomas Swords of the US Army Quartermaster Corps in the Civil War
Persifor Frazer Smith Military governor of California. His cousin in Philadelphia had the same name
Raphael Ravenscroft played the sax solo on Baker Street
Emancipation Proclamation Busby died in 1913
Ivan Ivanovich Shitts (1874-1942) nothing else in my notes.
Reverdy Johnson US senator from Maryland in 1863
Anastasia Palaszczuk current leader of Queensland
Wayne Modest works in a museum in Leiden, Germany
Brigadier General Sooy Smith One of Sherman’s cavalry commanders
Cedric Richmond was a congressman from Louisiana
Barbara Virginia Fatt was a food writer
Monsignor Kevin Quirk
General Marshall-Cornwall was a linguist
Vere Ponsonby, 9th Earl of Bessborough was Governor-General of Canada
Zavion Davenport died recently
Ronald Tree was a personal friend of Winston Churchill
Willifeda Yuill also was a family friend
Joseph Allen Schreibvogel a.k.a “Joe Exotic” his brother was Garold
Harry Roast was killed o 11 January 1941 by a German bomb at Bank Station, London
Robert Meiklejohn of the US Embassy in London during the war
Vice Admiral Ronald Smoot USN in WWII
Uzal G Ent of the USAAC in WWII
William Leonard Laurence was born Lieb Wolf Siew
Dirk Mudge Indonesian independence leader
John Goodluck recently passed away. He was of the Water-flows-together-people clan of the Navajo nation and a codetalker
Lady Judge recently died. She was born Barbara Singer Thomas
Lovely Warren is the mayor of Rochester, New York
Not the only amusing use of the name Smoot. Worth reading the Wiki squib.
The smoot is a nonstandard, humorous unit of length created as part of an MIT fraternity prank. It is named after Oliver R. Smoot, a fraternity pledge to Lambda Chi Alpha, who in October 1958 lay down … Wikipedia
Imperial/US units: 5 ft 7 in
SI units: 1.702 m
1 smoot in: is equal to
Named after: Oliver R. Smoot
The smoot /ˈsmuːt/ is a nonstandard, humorous unit of length created as part of an MIT fraternity prank. It is named after Oliver R. Smoot, a fraternity pledge to Lambda Chi Alpha, who in October 1958 lay down repeatedly on the Harvard Bridge (between Boston and Cambridge, Massachusetts) so that his fraternity brothers could use his height to measure the length of the bridge.
@BippityBoppityBoo:
To have your quotes correctly appear in a quote box (to make it clear what is a quote and what isn’t)
At the beginning of the quote, on its own line, type
“[quote]” (without the quote marks)
At the end of the quote, on its own line, type
“[/quote]” (without the quote marks)
I’ll certainly try. Thanks for the helpful tip. I’m hopelessly ancient and tech daft, this is my message board toe-in-the-water, but bear with me and I‘ll keep working on it.
^^You do a great job here.
Is that weird because “MacKenzie” is a surname, so it sounds silly if this actress, MacKenzie Phillips has been given it as a first name? Sort of like there being some celebrity named Cameron Diaz?
Saw a blurb on TV last night about some backwoods Alaska show and there were two young people shown. One was named “Snowflake” and the other “Rain”. Perhaps one born in winter and the other in spring?