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>Dr. David Bird, an emeritus professor of wildlife biology with McGill University. Quite an appropriate name. Reminds me of the two most distinguished geologis
by optimalsolver 5y ago
>Dr. David Bird, an emeritus professor of wildlife biology with McGill University.
Quite an appropriate name. Reminds me of the two most distinguished geologists of our day, Johnny Rockman and Bobby Boulders.
- karmakaze 5y agoPeople do seem to gravitate/grow into their names. The one that stands out to me is Schwarzschild radius: schwarz == black.
- MauranKilom 5y agoAlso in sports: https://xkcd.com/2022/ https://xkcd.com/2022/
- Rendello 5y agoI laughed at the fictional dentist supposedly named "Crentist" in the Office, then I remembered the largest scam in recent history was by Bernie Madoff.
- thaumasiotes 5y ago> then I remembered the largest scam in recent history was by Bernie Madoff. I don't get it?
- dwighttk 5y agoPronounced “Made off”
- tomjakubowski 5y agoBernie Madoff with all their money.
- dwighttk 5y agoNo kidding a CPA in my hometown went to prison for fraud named… Cheatham
- smokelegend 5y agoHe must have been affiliated with the brokerage firm Duewee, Cheatem & Howe... Took a series 7 course [stockbroker license] few years back, I remember that was the teachers goto example firm. Greico...John Thomas... fun times, then I realized I have a soul that prevents me from scamming people out of their last cent just to make a payment on a Benz or pay for weekly supply of hookers and cocaine... Only way to win the game, is not to play.
- filoeleven 5y agoAh, yes, the Car Talk show’s preferred firm! They retained Hugh Louis Dewey as their Chief Legal Counsel. The full staff list is linked below. And just because I can’t help giving a small sample, here are there defense lawyers: Defense Attorney Justin Volk V Defense Attorney II Heronimus B. Blind Defense Attorney III Donnatella Dicoppas Defense Attorney IV Gil T. Azell https://www.cartalk.com/content/staff-credits https://www.cartalk.com/content/staff-credits
- souprock 5y agoI knew a real dentist named Rex Pain. Rex means King. He was the king of pain.
- JoeAltmaier 5y agoOur local used-car dealer is Dick Witham.
- INTPenis 5y agoSchild means shield btw. I had a friend with a schild name and for the longest time pronounced it "child" without them correcting me. I felt so embarrassed when I realized it means shield.
- Grustaf 5y agoThat's how the ending is usually pronounced in English though. Consider how Americans say "Rothschild".
- INTPenis 5y agoYes but I'm swedish and should know better! :D
- meowface 5y agoRothschild means "red shield", for anyone curious. The full etymology: >The name is derived from the German zum rothen Schild (with the old spelling "th"), meaning "at the red shield", in reference to the house where the family lived for many generations (in those days houses were designated not by numbers but by signs displaying different symbols or colours).
- karmakaze 5y agoGood to know. Makes it even more interesting: the event horizon we can't see past.
- morebortplates 5y agoWatching a lot of science/astronomy related content on YouTube I've noticed that on most of the english-speaking channels the name ist pronounce wrongly (schwarz-child, instead of schwarz-chilled) PBS spacetime does it right though.
- rrrrrrrrrrrryan 5y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nominative_determinism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nominative_determinism
- bedobi 5y agohttps://old.reddit.com/r/NominativeDeterminism https://old.reddit.com/r/NominativeDeterminism
- kozd 5y agoIt gets even better. He used to teach WILD 420 Ornithology which was known for being a "bird course" (slang for easy course). https://www.mcgill.ca/study/2012-2013/courses/wild-420 https://www.mcgill.ca/study/2012-2013/courses/wild-420
- cryptonector 5y agoIn Austin, TX, there's a urologist famously named Richard Chopp, and his colleagues at the same clinic all have similarly relevant names, like Stephen Hardeman.
- reedf1 5y agoMy first name is Reed - guess what my favourite thing to do is?
- shadowythroaway 5y agoThat's an Aptronym https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aptronym https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aptronym
- meowface 5y agoIs there a term for this kind of internet comment section correction? Like "it's an aptronym, not nominative determinism", or "it's an initialism, not an acronym". (I'm not saying this to be snarky towards you or anything like that, and I personally appreciate seeing such corrections. Genuinely just curious if there's a term for this specific sort of thing, since it's common on HN and reddit.)
- shadowythroaway 5y agoI'm not sure, I didn't see the nominative determinism comment until I posted my own link. From my POV, I like seeing comments that facilitates exploration into an observation so was happy to share the link!