https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bing_Futch
― Monthly Python (Tom D.), Tuesday, 19 September 2023 08:51 (eight months ago) link
AKA people whose names sound like the b-sides to obscure British psychedelic singles ca. 1967/1968...
Arthur H. Peppercorn
― I Left My Harp In Sam Frank's Disco (Tom D.), Sunday, 24 September 2023 16:24 (eight months ago) link
Harry Buckoke
― deep wubs and tribral rhythms (Boring, Maryland), Thursday, 2 November 2023 22:55 (seven months ago) link
https://www.discogs.com/release/2111137-Dick-Hyman-Mary-Mayo-Moon-Gas
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Sunday, 5 November 2023 10:05 (seven months ago) link
Alabama State Treasurer Young Boozer
https://1819news.com/news/item/birmingham-southern-state-treasurer-boozer-not-factually-accurate-on-30-million-state-loan-denial
― don't let days go by, Listerine (Ye Mad Puffin), Sunday, 5 November 2023 12:24 (seven months ago) link
Augustus Egg
― My Prelapsarian Baby (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 10 November 2023 22:23 (seven months ago) link
Anemona Hartocollis
― m0stly clean (Slowsquatch), Friday, 10 November 2023 23:00 (seven months ago) link
Robert Fripp's guitar tech Biff Blumfungagnge
― Kate (rushomancy), Monday, 13 November 2023 17:27 (seven months ago) link
Sorry, I misspelled that. It's actually Blumfumgagnge.
― Kate (rushomancy), Monday, 13 November 2023 17:28 (seven months ago) link
Nimrode Pantz
https://dcist.com/story/23/11/14/dc-march-support-israel-mall/
― don't let days go by, Listerine (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 15 November 2023 13:29 (seven months ago) link
Okay so apparently "Fflyn" is like the actual name of a human person and not a Hobbit or Disney fairy or Vulcan or Narnian faun or whatever.
https://wapo.st/47kVYZx
I give up. I. Just. Give. Up. Carry on without me.
― Oh I believe in Yetis' Day (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 17 November 2023 12:59 (seven months ago) link
Ff- is a pretty standard way to begin a Welsh name.
― Madchen, Friday, 17 November 2023 13:22 (seven months ago) link
It makes more of a regular f sound since a single f sounds more like a v.
― Shifty Henry’s Swing Club (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 17 November 2023 13:40 (seven months ago) link
So ff is a letter in its own right, after f and before g and ng, which follows g.
― Shifty Henry’s Swing Club (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 17 November 2023 13:42 (seven months ago) link
Ok. Apologies for the flippant tone.
(But privately I do kinda sorta want to believe that hobbits and leprechauns walk among us.)
― Oh I believe in Yetis' Day (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 17 November 2023 14:08 (seven months ago) link
No worries. I believe Welsh was one of the languages Tolkien was inspired by when he came up with Elvish.
― Shifty Henry’s Swing Club (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 17 November 2023 14:40 (seven months ago) link
Okay so for some reason I was googling former Vice President Daniel Tompkins.*
Found this wikigem:
Mangle Minthorne, an assistant alderman of New York City. The couple had eight children, including Arietta Minthorn Tompkins (born July 31, 1800), who married a son of Smith Thompson in 1818, and (Mangle) Minthorne Tompkins (December)
*= Probably because Christmas is coming and Daniel D. Tompkins is mentioned in "Miracle in 34th Street," which is one of the very few Christmas movies that I find even tolerable.
― Oh I believe in Yetis' Day (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 22 November 2023 02:05 (six months ago) link
Okay sorry for the digression but seriously: Mangle Minthorne.
Mangle. Minthorne.
Of the New York Minthornes.
Not to be confused with Mangle Minthorne Tompkins, who was a completely different New York politician.
― Oh I believe in Yetis' Day (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 22 November 2023 02:08 (six months ago) link
Gay WimpKansas State Census, 1915— Actual Names (@ActualNames1) November 23, 2023
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Friday, 24 November 2023 02:53 (six months ago) link
abysmal real names
― Josefa, Friday, 24 November 2023 03:08 (six months ago) link
...is that mint/horne or minth/orne?
― m0stly clean (Slowsquatch), Friday, 24 November 2023 06:32 (six months ago) link
Cuthbert Girdlestone
― Tapioca by Jean Sibelius (Boring, Maryland), Friday, 8 December 2023 02:14 (six months ago) link
R4ndy M4ss4gee
― Expansion to Mackerel (Boring, Maryland), Sunday, 10 December 2023 20:43 (six months ago) link
Chiquita Seaborne
― CthulhuLululemon (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 11 December 2023 22:49 (six months ago) link
Altany Craik
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/dec/13/labour-councillor-altany-craik-quits-selection-race-after-concerns-over-sexy-satanic-novels
― Free Ass Ange (Tom D.), Wednesday, 13 December 2023 14:21 (six months ago) link
Ulva Pippy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_MacDonald_(actor)
― Nine Inch Males (Tom D.), Tuesday, 19 December 2023 21:35 (five months ago) link
Marcel Peeper
https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/NagAAOSwC9hcSv~~/s-l1200.webp
― Nine Inch Males (Tom D.), Wednesday, 20 December 2023 09:54 (five months ago) link
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Onions
― budo jeru, Wednesday, 20 December 2023 15:15 (five months ago) link
I may have mentioned that I have a friend whose name is S e r e n e T i c k l e. I only just now learned that she's from P o u l t o n le F y l d e, which just makes it better.
― CthulhuLululemon (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 26 December 2023 04:59 (five months ago) link
Bailey Zappe
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 26 December 2023 20:16 (five months ago) link
Cherokee Pilkington
― Bulky Pee Pants (Tom D.), Tuesday, 16 January 2024 07:28 (five months ago) link
Enjoyed watching Thelonius Aasgard playing alongside Becket Godo for Wigan the other week.
― Piedie Gimbel, Tuesday, 16 January 2024 09:45 (five months ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GEQBpldXgAAWEBo?format=jpg&name=small
― mookieproof, Saturday, 20 January 2024 23:36 (four months ago) link
Zé_Turbo
― anvil, Saturday, 20 January 2024 23:52 (four months ago) link
Wa-Ho-Thuk
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Sunday, 21 January 2024 00:12 (four months ago) link
Avalon FastKansas Bowling
Two women filmmakers
― nickn, Thursday, 8 February 2024 07:13 (four months ago) link
Today I learned that Mark Meadows has a lawyer named George J. Terwilliger III.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 8 February 2024 13:53 (four months ago) link
Richard Sheridan Patrick Michael Aloysius Franklin Bowling
― The British Boy of Film Classification (Tom D.), Monday, 12 February 2024 10:24 (four months ago) link
one of the developers of human in-vitro fertilisation was called Patrick Steptoe - a name I thought was a fictional creation by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson until today!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steptoe_and_Son
― Grandpont Genie, Friday, 16 February 2024 09:14 (four months ago) link
Guy Numbers
― from a prominent family of bassoon players (Boring, Maryland), Wednesday, 6 March 2024 21:48 (three months ago) link
Apparently there is a TN House Rep named Monty Fritts, that's pretty good. But I had an Uber driver over the weekend named Artiston Leatherbury. That rules.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 14 March 2024 18:15 (three months ago) link
F@lon Hard3n
― CEO Greedwagon (Neanderthal), Thursday, 14 March 2024 18:21 (three months ago) link
weaver & textile historian Rabbit Goody
― Andy the Grasshopper, Monday, 8 April 2024 19:03 (two months ago) link
is this thread deindexed lol
― music for A★TEENS’ musicians (Stevie D(eux)), Friday, 12 April 2024 15:43 (two months ago) link
I'm sure Rabbit would be delighted to discover people think they have a great name.
― My God's got no nose... (Tom D.), Friday, 12 April 2024 15:47 (two months ago) link
Scan Tester
― brimstead, Saturday, 20 April 2024 05:16 (one month ago) link
Oh it’s a nickname. Bah.
Surprised Dick Butkus has yet to come up.
― birdistheword, Saturday, 20 April 2024 05:23 (one month ago) link
Primbrock Skiggs, soul singer.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ft2SN6m8q-w
― ian, Friday, 3 May 2024 16:28 (one month ago) link
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Earthy
― I've left the box of soup near your shoes (Tom D.), Saturday, 11 May 2024 15:48 (one month ago) link