Nominative Determinism

[James_H]

Boy whose story of visiting the christian heaven during a near-death experience became a bestselling book admitted he made it all up. His name? Alex Malarkey.

Article from 2015.

 

[GNC]

Wow, that story has been perpetuated for years, after 2015, I'm sure, too. So he was a big fibber? I bet it doesn't stop the myth, mind you.

 

[MrRING]

https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/extreme-boys-names

Slayer, Striker, Shooter and the Rise of the Extreme Baby Boy Name​

Parents tend to be more conservative about naming baby boys. But when they do get creative, they turn them into throat-ripping action heroes

 

[Victory]

The BBC had an article on their news page a few days ago.

Names the President of the Royal Horticultural Society.

 

[Ascalon]

According to the QI Twitter account, the US Department of State’s anti-corruption coordinator is a man called Rich Nephew.

 

[Ascalon]

In the Dutch province of Zeeland there's a young lady called "Eunice Storm".
And by now she's heard all the obvious jokes.

https://nos.nl/video/2417974-eunice-storm-ik-ben-wel-klaar-met-alle-grapjes

There's an actual bonafide racer chap called Storm Stacey in the British Superbike Championship.
Fairly handy, he is too.

 

[Trevp666]

There was a US driver in F1 called Scott Speed.
He wasn't particularly quick (by F1 standards)
So that's probably whatever the opposite of Nominative Determinism is.

 

[hunck]

Stephen Haddock - marine biologist at Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute

And

Peter Herring - retired marine biologist

 

[Coal]

Stephen Haddock - marine biologist at Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute

And

Peter Herring - retired marine biologist

I can't help feeling they were both smokers...

 

[Yithian]

On my drive to the station this morning, I listened to a BBC Radio 5 Live interview with a scientist from the Water Research Centre.

His name?

Andy Drinkwater.

Evidence:

 

[catseye]

Not exactly the same thing (and I don't know if they still exist), but when I was growing up in Exeter, there was an estate agent by the name of Force. So the boards outside houses would read 'Sold by Force'.

 

[taras]

Mikael Böök, Finnish library activist.

 

[Ogdred Weary]

Not exactly the same thing (and I don't know if they still exist), but when I was growing up in Exeter, there was an estate agent by the name of Force. So the boards outside houses would read 'Sold by Force'.

An even better estate agent bit of nominative determinism:

https://www.crookandblight.com/

 

[hunck]

Drug dealer flies over handlebars during police chase​

Jack Quick, 26, weaved in and out of traffic, mounted pavements and drove into oncoming traffic during the pursuit in Church Warsop, Nottinghamshire, in September 2020.

The chase ended soon after Quick crashed his motorbike and tried to flee from police on foot. Officers found 40 wraps of cannabis inside his backpack.

Quick, of Larch Avenue, Mansfield Woodhouse, admitted dangerous driving and possession with intent to supply class B drugs at Nottingham Crown Court.

He was given an 18-month custodial sentence, suspended for two years.

Video at link

 

[Coal]

Drug dealer flies over handlebars during police chase​

Jack Quick, 26, weaved in and out of traffic, mounted pavements and drove into oncoming traffic during the pursuit in Church Warsop, Nottinghamshire, in September 2020.

Video at link

Amazed to discover he didn't jump over a candlestick during the chase.

 

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[Mythopoeika]

Dick Balson?
Deary me. Oh my.

 

[Xanatic*]

I just began watching the new Addams Family tv-show about Wednesday. It seems an attempt to do a Harry Potter-esque thing. She also has a sort of nemesis, called Bianca. I think they should have used the real name of that actress, what better nemesis for the woeful Wednesday than someone called Joy Sunday.

 

[Peripart]

Drug dealer flies over handlebars during police chase​

Jack Quick, 26, weaved in and out of traffic, mounted pavements and drove into oncoming traffic during the pursuit in Church Warsop, Nottinghamshire, in September 2020.

Video at link

Amazed to discover he didn't jump over a candlestick during the chase.

He forgot to be nimble.

Speed is nothing without control!

 

[Victory]

As seen in The Grauniad.

 

[blessmycottonsocks]

As seen in The Grauniad.

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He's one of the sons of famous paleoarchaeologist Harold Dibble (1951 to 2018), who was a consultant on the Clan of the Cave Bear movie.
Flint's brother is Chip Dibble.
Looks like a case of a father making pretty damn sure his sons would follow in his footsteps!

 

[Mythopoeika]

He's one of the sons of famous paleoarchaeologist Harold Dibble (1951 to 2018), who was a consultant on the Clan of the Cave Bear movie.
Flint's brother is Chip Dibble.
Looks like a case of a father making pretty damn sure his sons would follow in his footsteps!

Are they related to Officer Dibble, I wonder?

 

[Frasier Buddolph]

Came across an example of nominative determinism that made me chuckle because it is so damned on-the-mark! Unfortunately, I can't post it here because it might trip the Politics Alarm. Too bad . . .

 

[maximus otter]

Came across an example of nominative determinism that made me chuckle because it is so damned on-the-mark! Unfortunately, I can't post it here because it might trip the Politics Alarm. Too bad . . .

Try running it past a mod.

maximus otter

 

[Peripart]

Are they related to Officer Dibble, I wonder?

Great. Now I've got the Top Cat theme going round in my head.

 

[Mythopoeika]

Great. Now I've got the Top Cat theme going round in my head.

My work here is done!

 

[Peripart]

My work here is done!

I did think, when I first saw his name, that Flint Dibble needed to decide on just one classic animation and stick to it!

 

[blessmycottonsocks]

Came across an example of nominative determinism that made me chuckle because it is so damned on-the-mark! Unfortunately, I can't post it here because it might trip the Politics Alarm. Too bad . . .

You do realise that "Paddy Pantsdown" wasn't the name on his birth certificate?

 

[Floyd1]

Great. Now I've got the Top Cat theme going round in my head.

And now I have.