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  • Nominative determinism at work
  • siwhite
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    I had to double take when I heard this (sadly departed) lady’s name on the radio.

    Could there be a more appropriate surname for the founder of the nudist movement?

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-30658023

    Pook
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    Shona Menzies?

    GrahamS
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    hels
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    The doctor who helped treat my first dad for alcoholism was called “Dr Lush”. He was good looking too. My sister and I dissolved in giggles whenever we had to speak with him.

    I think that counts as double nominative entendre determinism ?

    TroutWrestler
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    I have been treated by a Dr Payne. I hesitated before entering the consultation room.

    Xylene
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    My first science technician in Mongolia name was Nemotod – with a specialism in cell biology and parasitology.

    scaredypants
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    heh – Sandi always springs to mind, but I’d need to check her, err, credentials 😳 before I could believe it

    zippykona
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    Sandi Toksvig was saying on QI that she was fitted for a life jacket by Will Drown.

    40mpg
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    I used to cycle with a surgeon called Will Butcher 😯

    siwhite
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    There is a Doctor close to us called Dr Stiff.

    DrJ
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    My sister’s dentist is called … Mr Dentith.

    Guy as work (oil industry) called Wells Smith*

    *Smith not his real name. Wells is 🙂

    spud-face
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    More appropriately, last night someone mentioned a wrestler named William Wiggle, though google says that must be lies.

    Troutwrestler: Dr Payne was my dentist, chap must’ve led a busy life.

    imnotverygood
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    My dentist as a kid was a certain Mr Screech

    zippykona
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    The lead singer of The Lime Spiders is also a nurse. His surname is Blood.
    Nurse Blood must scare a lot of kiddies.

    GrahamS
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    I have been treated by a Dr Payne. I hesitated before entering the consultation room.

    In the North East? If so he is a mate of mine and it may amuse you to know he married a Dr Wright – but sadly they didn’t go for combined surnames. 🙂

    timba
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    Do they both have the first name “Always”?

    kayak23
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    andyxm
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    Used to work for a bank with a guy called Nick Money, the bank didn’t do too well, but there was no direct link between that and Mr Money. There is a nuclear industry expert called Sue Ion.

    BillMC
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    On my way to Phillip Island I used to drive past an estate agents called ‘Robin Daley’. I used to teach a most unpleasant almost feral individual called ‘Zubair’ and I marked exam papers for girl a called ‘Manmeet’ and a ‘Dipa Mistry’.

    WorldClassAccident
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    The dentist in Henley was Dr Puller

    MoreCashThanDash
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    I don’t believe in nominative determinism. None of my bosses are called Clueless ****.

    huckleberryfatt
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    The electrician who fixed our broken cooker was Mr Sparks 🙂

    giantalkali
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    My electrician buddy is called Sparksman, he got told off in his first lesson at sparks college because the teacher thought he was being cocky and making up a funny name.

    IHN
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    The chap at work who you see to get a key for a locker is called Dave Keylock

    doris5000
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    slight tangent but you really can’t beat Mustafa Koc, chairman of Koc Holding

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ko%C3%A7_family

    it’s probably not actually pronounced ‘cock’ but let’s not split hairs here

    surroundedbyhills
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    There’s a Restaurant in Edinburgh called The Kitchin, owned by a chef called Tom Kitchin – got Michelin star so not too shabby either..

    brassneck
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    I went to school with a Jacqueline Hyde

    Cougar
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    Was she hard to find or something?

    bungle
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    Used to work with a Korean lass named Yung Kok.

    Saccades
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    Security guy at a place I used to work called XXXX Raper, used to wear military style jumpers with his surname on the chest.

    :picard:

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