What a Childhood This Poor Sod Must Have Had

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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I was going to post this to the funny names thread, but couldn’t find it. I’m not sure whether it’s funny or tragic, really.

I saw this person last night on a PBS special about the bubonic plague and DNA. I wasn’t sure I saw the caption correctly, so Googled the thing and sure enough, there he is, a respected British microbiologist by the name of Rick Titball. As in Richard Titball…as in Dick Titball.

What sort of idiot Titball parent would not see the future evil for his son by naming him Richard? This guy must have either had the crap pounded out of him as a kid or his psyche so badly damaged that he had to retreat into the world of academe.

It appears that he also works for the biological warfare folks, so maybe he’s plotting his revenge on his tormenters. I mean damn, ya know?

http://www.sanger.ac.uk/Info/Press/011004.shtml

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I don’t know. A name that unusual might actually have made him popular at school.

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Wow, that’s stranger than some of the names the Kabalarians site has listings for (see “Fun and games with the Kabalarians!” thread).

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I think I want to change my dope username.

Willy Boobtesticle

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My name is Dick Titball! HOW. DO. YOU. DO? Now you gunna die!

Apologies to the great Mr J. Cash.

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genius

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Garsh…thanks ::blush, scuffle feet::

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The type of woman who changes her name from, oh, ‘Lawrence’ to ‘Titball’.

It is obviously a nom de cinema

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I wonder if his father’s name is “Peter” and he just needed to get even somehow. The guy had to end up either a scientist or a porn star.

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We watched the same special, did mr. emilyforce and I, and had exactly the same reaction…

“Titball?! You canNOT be serious!”

This is why it is possible to legally change your name in these great United States. Maybe he should defect.

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Oh. My. God.

TITBALL?!?!?

Holy flurking shit! And if that’s not bad enough, his first name is RICHARD???

Good god, I wonder where their last name originated…

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Smiths used to make things, and Bakers used to make bread? Titballs used to neuter small birds.

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I wonder if he has a sister named Anita?

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Poor guy. I just think of all the names we had for a classmate with the last name Dick. Titball has to be a million times worse.

On the plus side, he’s got 125 papers on PubMed, so he’s got a pretty decent academic career going.

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:smiley: :smiley: :smiley:

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I wonder if he has a guard dog for his house…you know…the Titball pitbull.

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I saw the same show and when this guy (who was pretty cleary a “smart dude”) came on they put his name on the screen, I couldn’t help but wonder if everytime he goes to present some ground-breaking discovery to the scientific public, if the room breaks out into titters and giggles upon his introduction?

That was a neat show, but they replayed the drinking of bacon fat scene a little too often for my tastes. It did inspire a cool sig line, however:

Delta 32 Skee-Do!

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I, too, was watching that same PBS show, and I, too, fell off my sofa at the unexpected advent of Mr. Titball.

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They should have named him Palmer, or Craven.

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Just imagine the sign on the front of his house that says, “The Titballs.”