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03/25/2002 1:07 PM
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What were those words for a name that reflects an occupation? (Edit) Aptronyms (thanks!)
Came across a couple of beauties tonight whilst watching a British TV show about the clinical trials of cannabis extract for MS and chronic pain sufferers. One of those that spoke on behalf of the 'Fors' was Dr Willy Notcutt (PMSL!!!) of Greater Yarmouth, whilst the 'Nays' had Baroness Greenfields in their corner.
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03/25/2002 2:46 PM
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Last night acadamy award for a animated short, went to Ralph Eggleston, his short was For the Birds
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03/25/2002 5:43 PM
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My latest sports aptronym ~
a basketball player for Detroit Redford named Passmore.
He has a teammate with an inaptronym, Pettit.
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03/25/2002 11:59 PM
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During my first pregnancy, I visited Dr. Childs.
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03/26/2002 10:07 AM
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The head of my department (Information Systems Services) which provides computing and network services is Mike Nowlan. Too subtle for most and only the techies amongst us will get that!!
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#62306
03/26/2002 11:56 AM
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Who are you calling a techie!!!!!!!!!
I make the promises those b-'s are sposed to keep!
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#62307
03/26/2002 11:58 AM
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I had a look at my own surname today in a different light. I wonder if any of the forebears were bakers?
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03/26/2002 12:20 PM
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I had a look at my own surname today in a different light.Never noticed it before but the wicketkeeper on my cricket team is a certain Roger Stalley. Not the most common name in the world so some coincidence. Okay, it's not an aptronym but I thought it was interesting 
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03/26/2002 5:49 PM
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There's a German website called www.bloedenamen.de (or stupid names) and it has literally hundreds of these aptronyms as we're calling them. Unfortunately they loose a lot in translation, but they really are pretty stupid, dentists called Dr. M. Schmerz (Dr. M. Pain) or Frau Dr. Ute Bohrer (Dr. Drill) etc.
Dunno if there is an English site like this. Anyone?
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03/26/2002 6:07 PM
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> the 'Nays'
If these nay-sayers had the chronic pain like many around the world suffer who are offered only whole-hog, hard-to-dose drugs like morphine and codine to ease their pains, then the cries against the use of this useful plant would be much quieter.
I know personally of someone who was afflicted with a life-threatening problem which made life a constant struggle, but with the help of THC pills imported from the States things were fine until things could be operated.
I don't understand why a country would make people who only want to, say relieve back aches, buy their medicine from a drug dealer and thus promote crime, rather than just roll up a fatty full of understanding, and let the people have something which is cheap to produce and very effective - weed. After all, we all know how much more harmful countless legal drugs in chemists and bars around the world are.
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03/27/2002 12:39 AM
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I wonder if any of the forebears were bakers?
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Or drinkers.. er, I mean excellent brewers? (be)st ales 
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03/27/2002 12:44 AM
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network services is Mike Nowlan.
If you expand the business, he may have to change his name to Mike NowWan! Ha ha! 
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03/27/2002 3:50 AM
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I grow it (In small amounts, but you do not need much more when it comes to SKUNK)
but i am 37 years old , and I will not be told
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03/27/2002 12:46 PM
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Rubrick
Hey - I'm not alone!
Please pass my best regards to your team mate.
also - ask him if he has a phobia about his initials. Last thing I was going to do was give my kids a name begining with R or B.
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03/28/2002 1:11 AM
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[ white ] also - ask him if he has a phobia about his initials. Last thing I was going to do was give my kids a name begining with R or B [ /white ]
Yes, it made me wonder whether these issues had been considered when Subaru released the 2002 Series of Impreza, introducing a new model. The previous models in the series were called LX, GX, RX, and WRX. The new model (positioned between RX and WRX) is now called RS. I'm a current RX owner, and I'd hardly consider buying something called "RS" an upgrade! Perhaps there needs to be more culture sharing between Japan and Oz.
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03/28/2002 12:49 PM
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Perhaps there needs to be more culture sharing between Japan and Oz. And between y'all and the Rest Of The World.  We drive one. It's good in this winter weather! Please splain.
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03/28/2002 9:15 PM
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We drive one. It's good in this winter weather! Please splain.
I drive one too, and it's good in any weather!! I love my Subie!
The reference was not to Subarus (hmmm... how does one pluralise Subaru?) generally but to the name given to the new Impreza model. RS is an abbreviation of Rat Shit, which is a slang term for lousy, buggered, broken, useless etc.
Now d'ya get why I might not want to "upgrade" from my RX to a RS Impreza?
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03/29/2002 5:33 AM
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Perhaps there needs to be more culture sharing between Japan and Oz.Oh, yus, I kin just see that happening. Oz politicians have such a good track record when it comes to polite references to their Asian neighbours! 
The idiot also known as Capfka ...
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03/29/2002 7:19 AM
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03/29/2002 6:11 PM
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Oh, yus, I kin just see that happening. Oz politicians have such a good track record when it comes to polite references to their Asian neighbours!Well, they take their cue from their head-of-state's consort!!
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03/30/2002 2:30 PM
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Now you've done it!! Explaining my initials in great detail to the entire freaking planet. I'll never be able to hold my head up around these parts ever again. How do I get a deed poll change rolling.....?
One thing I've consoled myself with since I was 14 is that at least my initials aren't as bad as a schoolday chum's. His name was Fraser Ward.
PARENTS OF THE WORLD - THINK ABOUT YOUR KIDS' NAMES VERY CAREFULLY!!
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03/30/2002 4:27 PM
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FW = ??? What the heck? Something tells me to ask for the answer to what this stands for to be sent Private. Good point, though, stales. Aside from the usual bad form of a Mr. and Mrs. Bush naming their dau. Rose, I'd feel sorry for, say, a Lynette Catherine Davis, or an Isaiah Thomas. Or a William Walter White... I know this must seem strange, but I insisted that my dau. be Katherine and not Catherine, because K is such a stong, stand-up-straight letter and that's the way I wanted her to be, not rounded and cringing!  And, since the e is there in the middle of her name, I insist on pronouncing all three syllables: to me, Katherine is not Kath-ryn! Prolly got that way in rebellion against my mother, who would say straw-breeze and not straw-bear-reez.
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03/30/2002 5:59 PM
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That does it. Now I'm gonna hafta change my name to Konsuelo. I may be rounded, but I'm not cringing for anything! Wait! No, 'cause that would make my initials KP. Puleeeez! Consuelo it is, but I'm still not cringing for anything. 
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03/30/2002 6:33 PM
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Good point, though, stales. Aside from the usual bad form of a Mr. and Mrs. Bush naming their dau. Rose, I'd feel sorry for, say, a Lynette Catherine Davis, or an Isaiah Thomas. Or a William Walter White...
One of my mother's old bosses was a Dr. Cyril White. His wife's name is Lily. I kid you not
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03/30/2002 6:35 PM
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PARENTS OF THE WORLD - THINK ABOUT YOUR KIDS' NAMES VERY CAREFULLY!!Well, I've had to put up with stupid references to Dallas for the past 25 years!!!
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03/30/2002 6:53 PM
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The pastor of our church and his wife hyphenated their names when they married. It's not too long...14 letters with the hyphen. But their daughter married a man whose parents did the same thing. 16 letters in his. You guessed it, they believe in doing the same thing...they each now have a 31 letter last name including the 3 hyphens. There oughtta be a law!
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There oughtta be a law!Too right! My parents had delusions of grandeur when they got married and welded their names together for we kids. I've long since dropped my mother's maiden name (although it still appears on my birth cert AND on my passport) but had I not I would have had a surname of eighteen letters including the hyphon. Now if you include my first, second and third christian names then that would add up to thirty-two letters. Quite a mouthful! I prefer Rubrick. It rolls off the tongue so much better....
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03/30/2002 7:48 PM
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I prefer Rubrick. It rolls off the tongue so much better.... And we do want it to roll off our tongues!
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03/30/2002 8:06 PM
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My children were given hyphenated last names as well, but for a much different reason. In Mexico, they would have received my maiden name as a surname following the father's surname. Since the children were born and certified in the US, we hyphenated the names as they would have been given in Spanish.(only ten letters in all) Without the hyphen, their US surname would have been my maiden name. ie Zoe T. SmithJones as opposed to Zoe T. Smith-Jones. Friends of mine that moved to the US from Mexico ended up with his mother's maiden name as surname when some bureaucrat decided he/she knew better than they did what their surname is.
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03/31/2002 11:43 PM
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more culture sharing between Japan and Oz.
Oh, yus, I kin just see that happening. Oz politicians have such a good track record...
Uh, CapK, since when does politics equate to culture?
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04/02/2002 8:55 AM
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Friend of mine is Simon Patrick Lindesay Blackburne-Kane.
It just don't fit on his driver's license!
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04/02/2002 7:15 PM
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license [E.A.]
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04/02/2002 7:28 PM
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Well, I've had to put up with stupid references to Dallas for the past 25 years!!!
Your name is Larry Hagman? Patrick Duffy? Linda Gray?
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04/02/2002 8:24 PM
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Your name is Larry Hagman? Patrick Duffy? Linda Gray?Ha, ha. Nope. Check out my profile and look at my initials. Then you'll get it.
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04/07/2002 9:32 PM
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Just now discovered that the cartoonist who created the feelthy-rich Scrooge McDuck was named Carl Banks.
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While we're on the subject, which we're not really, why is it that so many forms produced in the US or following US patterns only allow you one middle name or initial? I have two middle names and I do not see why I should give either of them up as they are both part of my family history/life. (For those interested my forenames commemorate my: maternal grandfather, paternal grandfather, birthday). [/rant]
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