Bucking nominative determinism -- people who do not match their names!

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I was thinking Butch Vig sounds more mob enforcer than nerdy record producer

Philip Nunez, Wednesday, 16 October 2024 16:50 (ten months ago)

Taylor Swift - her sewing is actually quite slow

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Gershon Legman proclaimed himself to be an ass man.

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Frank Zappa was never frank, in fact he never shut the fuck up

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Dick Trickle's unobstructed urethra generates a flow of urine that is frankly prodigious

Great-Tasting Burger Perceptions (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 16 October 2024 20:08 (ten months ago)

five months pass...

https://foodforthepoor.org/director-finance-committee-member-robin-g-mahfood/

nxd, Friday, 28 March 2025 06:44 (four months ago)

I hope not (!!) — that one had me convulsing

Philip Nunez, Friday, 28 March 2025 19:27 (four months ago)

laughing so hard at that.

visiting, Friday, 28 March 2025 19:47 (four months ago)

I know of several bakeries owned by Boucher families (which means butcher in French)

StanM, Friday, 28 March 2025 20:13 (four months ago)

and yes! Boucherie Boulanger also exists (a butcher called Baker)

StanM, Friday, 28 March 2025 20:15 (four months ago)

four months pass...

is there an opposite analog for this thread? I want to share "Montreal fire department section chief André Laflamme" with you all

rob, Tuesday, 5 August 2025 14:01 (three weeks ago)

idk i think he might fit in this thread. his name indicates a pyromaniac, not a pyro-preventer!

gestures broadly at...everything (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 5 August 2025 16:41 (three weeks ago)

lol good point!

rob, Tuesday, 5 August 2025 17:32 (three weeks ago)

How could John Tory ever do anything besides enter Conservative politics?

Hongro Hongro Hippies (Myonga Vön Bontee), Tuesday, 5 August 2025 18:07 (three weeks ago)

I think this thread is intentioned for reverse nominative determinism, like the defence attorney who was called Sue Yoo or whatever, so I think it was the correct thread for rob's post, or is my brain just nominatively confused!

vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Tuesday, 5 August 2025 18:39 (three weeks ago)

People whose names seemed to predict their career or job

Kim Kimberly, Tuesday, 5 August 2025 18:51 (three weeks ago)

Dying at Robin Mahfood mentioned upthread.

Kim Kimberly, Tuesday, 5 August 2025 18:53 (three weeks ago)

omg

five six seven, eight nine ten, begin (map), Tuesday, 5 August 2025 19:03 (three weeks ago)

ah thanks, Kim! though yes calz, voodoo chili made me realize that this actually is the right thread for firefighter Laflamme, even if initially I was just thinking "tee hee a guy named The Flame is a fireman how amusing"

rob, Tuesday, 5 August 2025 20:42 (three weeks ago)


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