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#5475 - 08/20/00 07:33 AM If the name fits...
Bridget addict Registered: 06/27/00 Posts: 444 Loc: Sydney Australia	An idea from postings in another thread (the right thing to say): What are the best examples people have come across of names that fit - or don't fit! - their owners' professions. I used to live near a funeral directors which was called 'Wake and Paine'. I knew a salesman called Cheatham and a lawyer called De Sevo.
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#5476 - 08/20/00 07:43 AM Re: If the name fits...
Jackie Carpal Tunnel Registered: 03/15/00 Posts: 11580 Loc: Louisville, Kentucky	Dr. Beavers, gynecologist
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#5477 - 08/20/00 08:06 AM Re: If the name fits...
Bridget addict Registered: 06/27/00 Posts: 444 Loc: Sydney Australia	>Dr. Beavers, gynecologist< VERY American, Jackie - I had to think about it before I understood it! ...and what's that you're always saying about people taking threads in the direction of the gutter?
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#5478 - 08/20/00 08:28 AM Re: If the name fits...
paulb addict Registered: 03/17/00 Posts: 460 Loc: Hobart, Tasmania, Australia	Cardinal Sin.
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#5479 - 08/20/00 05:56 PM Re: If the name fits...
TEd Remington Carpal Tunnel Registered: 07/17/00 Posts: 3467 Loc: Marion NC	>What are the best examples people have come across of names that fit - or don't fit! - their owners' professions. While not exactly on point, when I was a kid growing up in Northern Virginia, there were two brothers with last name Murphy, one was an OB-GYN, the other a mortician. Though at that time the doctor could not advertise, many people knew that their preferred slogan was "From the womb to the tomb with the Murphy brothers." A fired of mine who went to UNC law school a few years before my wife went there swore that there was a trio of law students trying to find a fourth with a particular name so they could form the law firm: Finder, Binder, Raper and Lever. I suspect it was the third they couldn't find. _________________________ TEd
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#5480 - 08/21/00 04:34 AM Re: If the name fits...
Bingley Carpal Tunnel Registered: 04/09/00 Posts: 3065 Loc: Jakarta	Which reminds me of the possibly apocryphal headline after someone who had escaped from a mental institution raped some laundry workers: Nut screws washers and bolts. Bingley _________________________ Bingley
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#5481 - 08/22/00 07:55 AM Re: If the name fits...
Jackie Carpal Tunnel Registered: 03/15/00 Posts: 11580 Loc: Louisville, Kentucky	>>Nut screws washers and bolts. Ohmigawd! Oh, how funny! Multiple, munificent kudos to you! My feet love this gutter!
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#5482 - 08/22/00 07:42 PM Re: If the name fits...
TEd Remington Carpal Tunnel Registered: 07/17/00 Posts: 3467 Loc: Marion NC	On the little railroad my kid loves to ride the conductor is John Silvers. _________________________ TEd
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#5483 - 08/23/00 05:15 PM Re: If the name fits...
Jazzoctopus old hand Registered: 07/03/00 Posts: 1094 Loc: Cincinnati & Loveland, Ohio, U...	I would cite Thomas Crapper, inventor of the flush toilet, as an example, but the euphemism for defecation came from his name. . .
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#5484 - 08/23/00 06:31 PM Re: what crap
tsuwm Carpal Tunnel Registered: 04/03/00 Posts: 10464 Loc: this too shall pass	today we would call these urban legends; linguists call them folk etymologies. http://www.plumbingworld.com/historythomas.html http://www.wilton.net/errors.htm
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