Nominative Determinism

[GNC]

Of course he keeps the name, it's on his credit cards.

Is this the same Adolf Hitler who appeared in an advert in the first issue of FT I ever bought, saying he was "back in business" or words to that effect? Looks like him, but it would be even more bizarre if there were more than one. Er, two.

 

[hunck]

Perhaps his father was thinking along similar lines to the father in 'A Boy Named Sue'.

 

[Peripart]

Perhaps his father was thinking along similar lines to the father in 'A Boy Named Sue'.

Heil-y likely.

 

[Bad Bungle]

There was a couple in Devon with the surname Littler, who really fancied naming their new baby Lyle - despite pleas from relatives. The parents just simply could not foresee what would happen in the school playground to a kid called Lyle Littler.

 

[escargot]

There was a couple in Devon with the surname Littler, who really fancied naming their new baby Lyle - despite pleas from relatives. The parents just simply could not foresee what would happen in the school playground to a kid called Lyle Littler.

Took me a minute!

 

[Ogdred Weary]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1343987704787316737

 

[Mythopoeika]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1343987704787316737

Apparently:

In 2018, Wang partnered with Trojan to release a limited-edition "Protect Your Wang" capsule collection in support of the LGBTQ community and to celebrate Pride.

 

[Mythopoeika]

I was just watching the Kingsman 2 film on telly and did a search for the real tailor shop that is featured in the film - Huntsman Savile Row.
Their prices are out of this world, as one might expect.
Anyway - I was looking at their website and came across this lady (Magdalena Handwerker, who is one of the cloth cutters):
https://www.huntsmansavilerow.com/the-team/the-cutters/
'Handwerker' is a Germanic version of 'hand worker'. How about that!

 

[Frideswide]

Magdalena Handwerker

 

[Victory]

Ironic this one from The Daily Mail.
He needs to learn some conversational skills.

 

[MorningAngel]

I can’t link the story as Apple News isn’t giving me the browser option. But I think the headline is enough.

 

[EnolaGaia]

Here's a direct link to the cited story:

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...sembly-zoom-video-colin-pidgeon-b1807299.html

 

[MorningAngel]

Here's a direct link to the cited story:

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...sembly-zoom-video-colin-pidgeon-b1807299.html

Thanks.

 

[JamesWhitehead]

Introducing Maria Labia and her mother Cecilia!

Well there have to be a pair of them!

Maria's performances . . . were said to be impulsive and, for their day, ‘shamelessly sensual’.

They were both opera singers, of course!

 

[kamalktk]

Boot replaces Foot at Shoe Zone.

https://www.business-live.co.uk/retail-consumer/terry-boot-replaces-peter-foot-19989583

Terry Boot has joined the discount retailer, replacing Peter Foot who left last month after just seven months in the role.

 

[Min Bannister]

When strange names collide..

I downloaded a podcast recently where Alison Pope-Rhodius is interviewed. Unusual enough name as it is but she is Professor of Applied Sport and Performance Psychology at Holy Names University. This is a real place!

https://hnu.edu

 

[Ghost In The Machine]

Am a craftsperson in residence at a museum and also I write for magazines etc using different names, most usually combining my real first name with my grandma's surname so it is sort of my name, but also sort of not. I write about textile history but also regularly do craft how tos - things like natural dyeing and weaving and travelled round the UK in the Before Times, as a teacher of various textile arts including dyeing and weaving.

My (real) first name means "weaver" and my (real) second name means "dyer"...

I wasn't particularly thinking about this at the time I started working in the field, it did indeed sort of happen slowly over years.

 

[maximus otter]

Scientist predicted a man named ‘Elon’ would colonise Mars in book written 70 years ago

Writing in his 1952 science fiction novel "Project Mars", engineer Wernher von Braun described a man called "Elon" who ruled over the Red Planet.

One passage of the book – a fantasy blueprint for a human expedition to Mars – details that "a Martian government was created, led by ten men".

Those men worked under a leader "elected by universal suffrage for five years under the name or title of Elon."

Von Braun was one of the most influential scientists of the 20th century and a key figure in the development of rocket technology in Nazi Germany.

Following World War 2, he was secretly moved to the United States and became a pioneer of space technology for Nasa.

https://www.thesun.co.uk/tech/14881853/predict-man-elon-colonise-mars-book/

maximus otter

 

[Mythopoeika]

Scientist predicted a man named ‘Elon’ would colonise Mars in book written 70 years ago

Writing in his 1952 science fiction novel "Project Mars", engineer Wernher von Braun described a man called "Elon" who ruled over the Red Planet.

One passage of the book – a fantasy blueprint for a human expedition to Mars – details that "a Martian government was created, led by ten men".

Those men worked under a leader "elected by universal suffrage for five years under the name or title of Elon."

Von Braun was one of the most influential scientists of the 20th century and a key figure in the development of rocket technology in Nazi Germany.

Following World War 2, he was secretly moved to the United States and became a pioneer of space technology for Nasa.

https://www.thesun.co.uk/tech/14881853/predict-man-elon-colonise-mars-book/

maximus otter

 

[GNC]

When ex-Nazi scientist Wernher's biopic came out, it was called I Aim For the Stars. Graffiti on the posters for it added "But I Hit London" to the title in the British capital.

 

[GerdaWordyer]

Presuming, hoping, that "Leigh King" would be a good candidate for the local water board, I almost voted for her. But I knew nothing about her stances as a candidate, so I stoppered my joke vote impulse. This is TX, she might have been a horror.

 

[kamalktk]

Cocking says cocking was forced.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-somerset-57060228

 

[Mythopoeika]

Richard Move.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Move
In 2018, Move was Artist in Residence at Pratt Institute. Not just a Dick, but a Pratt as well.

 

[CALGACUS03]

I had a dentist in Newcastle in the '80s called Mr Fang.

 

[Spudrick68]

I've just bought a Kindle book from Amazon, a history of the electric chair in the U.S. It is written by Anthony Galvin. Is he having a dark joke on us?

 

[Mythopoeika]

I've just bought a Kindle book from Amazon, a history of the electric chair in the U.S. It is written by Anthony Galvin. Is he having a dark joke on us?

It's sure to be a galvanising read. It'll have you on the edge of your seat.

 

[escargot]

I've just bought a Kindle book from Amazon, a history of the electric chair in the U.S. It is written by Anthony Galvin. Is he having a dark joke on us?

I have that book on Kindle, it's gruesomely interesting.

 

[hunck]

Cop cleared of car ‘sex’ with drunk woman while on duty​

Avon and Somerset police officer Lee Cocking, 40, said that the woman had forced herself on him sexually as he drove her home in December 2017.

He said that he suffered from post-traumatic stress syndrome resulting from tragic incidents he had dealt with during his career, and he was not psychologically able to resist the woman’s advances.

He said the woman made all the running in the car by pulling down her jeans and underwear, unzipping his trousers and ‘straddling’ him in the driving seat of the vehicle.

‘He was not remotely interested and was passive in terms of his actions. She was not entirely successful for the reason that he was not interested. He had no desire, before, during or afterwards to engage in any sexual activity with her.

‘She eventually gave up and Sgt Cocking drove the woman home.’

 

[escargot]

Cop cleared of car ‘sex’ with drunk woman while on duty​

Avon and Somerset police officer Lee Cocking, 40, said that the woman had forced herself on him sexually as he drove her home in December 2017.

Speaking as someone who has had car sex, I can confidently assert that straddling a man who is sitting in the driving seat is not going to achieve the, er, object.

For a start you'd sit on the car horn and it'd go off rhythmically like a theft alarm.

 

[Peripart]

I've just bought a Kindle book from Amazon, a history of the electric chair in the U.S. It is written by Anthony Galvin. Is he having a dark joke on us?

Is that your current reading?