Nominative Determinism

[JamesWhitehead]

Jack Sock and a Sweaty Incident.

" . . . as Sock tossed it in his direction, an ugly tussle ensued as a considerably older man, sitting in front of the youth, forcibly tugged it from his hands."

 

[escargot]

Career criminal locked up for house burglaries

A career criminal again caught breaking into homes has been put behind bars for three years four months.

A court heard that Andrew Crimes has committed 71 previous offences, the majority for dishonesty including many house burglaries.

His latest offences - all but one nvolving targeting homes with uvpc doors - mean it was the third time he had been classed as a “third strike burglar” facing an automatic minimum three year jail term.

etc

 

[Analogue Boy]

Career criminal locked up for house burglaries

But for one letter, he could have had a career fitting alarms.

 

[escargot]

But for one letter, he could have had a career fitting alarms.

Andrew Chimes - bellringer
Andrew Crimps - hairdresser.
Andrew Primes - mathematician
Andrew Crises - Disaster Management

 

[David Plankton]

Andrew Chimes - bellringer
Andrew Crimps - hairdresser.
Andrew Primes - mathematician
Andrew Crises - Disaster Management

Andrew Climes - meteorologist. Or Travel Agent.

 

[Andy X]

...or dyslexic mountaineer (or mountaineer in need of elocution lessons).

 

[INT21]

I was reading up on lot's daughters and found this..

....A number of commentators describe the actions of Lot's daughters as rape. Esther Fuchs suggests that the text presents Lot's daughters as the "initiators and perpetrators of the incestuous 'rape'...

And the daughter of one of them was called MOAB.

Perhaps Lot thought she was the best bang since the Big one.

INT21

 

[Mythopoeika]

That's a lot to take on board.

 

[kamalktk]

Felon named Fellony charged with felonies.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/07/23/felon-named-fellony-charged-with-new-felonies.html

 

[Mythopoeika]

Felon named Fellony charged with felonies.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/07/23/felon-named-fellony-charged-with-new-felonies.html

About time he fell on his own sword.

 

[Yithian]

Have we done this one?

UKIP’s fisheries spokesman Mike Hookem.

 

[rpkemp]

Or for that matter ...

 

[Krepostnoi]

Anybody called Manley Power is surely bound for success in the armed forces: admiral, say, or general.

Meanwhile, I daresay William Fears wishes he had a bit of the above-mentioned, but he really doesn't.

 

[Andy X]

Admittedly not an example of N.D at all, but if this chap (who worked on Seinfeld, inter alia) ever fancies a change from editing I'm very confident our local council will be happy to sort him out with a job, ho ho! *groan*.

 

[stu neville]

Oh dear..

 

[JamesWhitehead]

Not really a case of nominative determinism but I recently came across this chap:

Sorjoo Alexander William Langobard Oliphant Chuckerbutty.

Of Anglo-Indian descent, he made a few recordings as a cinema organist in the 1930s, where he is credited simply as Oliphant Chuckerbutty.

Chuckerbutty was a name frequently used for comic effect by Sir Ken Dodd. I had assumed it was made up, though thinking about it, I'd guess it's just a variant transliteration of Chakrabarti. I see he had a grandfather who went by the name of Goodeve Chuckerbutty, so the family had some form when it came to striking names.

 

[EnolaGaia]

... I see he had a grandfather who went by the name of Goodeve Chuckerbutty, so the family had some form when it came to striking names.

I'm not sure about the precise family relations involved (I can't keep my Chuckerbutty's straight! ...), but this ancestry.com listing:

http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?gl=34&gsln=Chuckerbutty&gsln_x=XO

... indicates the spellings 'Gordeve' and 'Goodene' were also in play.

This listing includes an 'Icy Chuckerbutty', but a separate entry with the same cited date of death suggests this is a misspelling of 'Ivy'.

If I were to be retro-incarnated as one of the clan who passed away in 1923, I think I'd have insisted on initial-izing my first name and inviting gapes by introducing myself as 'S. Chunder Chuckerbutty'. :wacky:

 

[EnolaGaia]

Here's an overview article on nominative determinism. This is the first time I've seen the label 'aptronym' for the sort of name / situation coincidences cited here.

Having the right name at the right, or sometimes wrong, time
... When reporters descended on upstate New York to ask about a stunning prison break in 2015, state police spokesman Major Charles Guess took their questions.

A dog named Trigger stepped on his owner’s 12-gauge shotgun during an Indiana waterfowl hunt just months later and shot her in the foot.

Sometimes the name fits the news story. Correspondent Julie Weed writes about legal marijuana for Forbes. This month, a front-page New York Times story on obesity was edited by Hilary Stout.

And former U.S. Representative Anthony Weiner on Monday was sentenced to prison for sending explicitly sexual pictures of a certain body part to an underage girl.

This phenomenon has secured its own line of scientific research, called nominative determinism. It even has a name of its own: aptronym. ...

FULL STORY: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-u...e-right-or-sometimes-wrong-time-idUSKCN1C425Q

 

[escargot]

Chuckerbutty was a name frequently used for comic effect by Sir Ken Dodd. I had assumed it was made up, though thinking about it, I'd guess it's just a variant transliteration of Chakrabarti. I see he had a grandfather who went by the name of Goodeve Chuckerbutty, so the family had some form when it came to striking names.

'Chucklebutty' is a Northern endearment (as you'll know!) which I'm sometimes called by an old friend. So it's all Sir Ken's fault, is it?

 

[maximus otter]

“Vienna Boys’ Choir caught up in sex abuse scandals

Roger Boyes, Berlin Correspondent of The Times
March 18 2010, 12:01am, The Times”

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/vienna-boys-choir-caught-up-in-sex-abuse-scandals-zcrxj2hzr99

maximus otter

 

[Min Bannister]

Roger Boyes

:nails: I'd have gone straight to deed poll as soon as I was able!

 

[Ghost In The Machine]

I really do have an in law called Mike Hunt. He wasn't a gynaecologist, though. His mother was very christian and naive and had no idea what she was doing, when she named him. He is called "Mike" or "Mick" interchangeably.

 

[Ghost In The Machine]

“Vienna Boys’ Choir caught up in sex abuse scandals

Roger Boyes, Berlin Correspondent of The Times
March 18 2010, 12:01am, The Times”

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/vienna-boys-choir-caught-up-in-sex-abuse-scandals-zcrxj2hzr99

maximus otter

He was destined to write that story.

 

[escargot]

He was destined to write that story.

*strokes Jimmy Hill-sized chin*

 

[stu neville]

Oh dear... from the Bristol Post

..Barry, aged 56, denies murdering Mr Ahmed in July last year but has pleaded guilty to manslaughter. A jury at Bristol Crown Court has heard police found Mr Ahmed’s body in his room, with his severed penis lying next to him..

Dr Susanne Willie, a consultant psychiatrist who visited Barry some eight times between November 2015 and May last year, said she was aware Barry had come off a calming drug due to it having adverse physical effects..

 

[Min Bannister]

There is Crystal Optometrists in Edinburgh. I had always assumed the name was just picked to denote the clear lenses they produce but no, the optometrists are a Mr and Mrs Crystal. Cool eh?

 

[David Plankton]

There is Crystal Optometrists in Edinburgh. I had always assumed the name was just picked to denote the clear lenses they produce but no, the optometrists are a Mr and Mrs Crystal. Cool eh?

Similar thing with the Hi Fi retailers Richer Sounds. I think the boss is called Julian Richer.

 

[Old Master Q]

Unsure if this has been posted before... Geoff does seem to be making the best of his eponymous status though, so all is well!

 

[JamesWhitehead]

Today's Manchester Evening News features another sex-criminal with a name to match.

A Thai Boxing coach who secretly filmed himself having sex with a schoolgirl at his gym was jailed.

Peter Feeley, 56, nicknamed ‘Mr Touchy-Feeley’, was a ‘respected’ coach based at the Spartan Muay Thai gym in Middleton - but he went on to develop a relationship with a youngster. :boxing:

 

[ramonmercado]

Its a fair cop guv.

An Indonesian construction worker has landed a job in a police station, all because of his name.

The man, called Polisi - which is Indonesian for "Police" - was fined by traffic cops for riding a motorcycle without a licence in Pasuruan, East Java, Tribunnews website reported.

But after a photo of his identity card went viral on social media, local officers "adopted" him as their celebrity mascot, eventually buying him a driving licence and offering him an office job in their station house, Merdeka.com said.

Polisi, who like many Indonesians goes by a single name, said that he didn't expect it to bring him good luck.

He joins the likes of God, Satan, and Go To School as Indonesians with noteworthy names.

http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-42080188