I used to work in a machine shop, doing lathe and mill work.
A science fiction author coined my name (a variant spelling of, actually) as a name for robotic arms.
I’d change, if I could think of anything I liked better.
Peanut vendors at the ballpark shouting “Peanuts here” sounded like they were shouting “Peanuthead”.
Professionally I’m more into mollusks than ungulates.
Also I lurk more than I post.
Thus …
No really…
Sounds Finnish to me 
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Sounds like a misspelled Magyar name.
Gargantua & Pantagruel by Rabelais.
A character from *Tigana *by Guy Gavriel Kay.
I picked it after seeing a William Hogarth exhibition.
I used to be jr8, which was my initials + an extra character added for length. Someone told me that they pronounced this as “gyrate” and I decided I liked that better.
I was in the middle of a masters dissertation on this play.
I was raised Catholic. Now not so much.
Clothahump is the name of the wise old turtle wizard in Alan Dean Foster’s SPELLSINGER novel series.
It used to be my job.
I was a huge Andrew Lloyd Webber fan long before he and Jim Steinman wrot the musical Whistle Down the Wind, which included the song “Annie Christmas.”
One of my names is Anne, and I was born on 25/December.
I thought that name sounded familiar, but couldn’t place it!
Thanks to a certain '72 film of a rodent and Michael Jackson’s song of the same name. I just happen to have the same first name. :rolleyes:
The Latin plural of my last name. Someone used it to refer to my family (wife and I have 4 boys)…as in “Here come the Bori”.
It just came to me while exchanging smutty emails…lettin’ my fingers do the walking…