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Triceratops Censura

Posts : 3314 Join date : 2012-01-05
 | Subject: Nomen est Omen Tue 24 Feb 2015, 14:16 | |
| Or, the belief that a person's name can affect their choice of career or outlook on life.   |
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Triceratops Censura

Posts : 3314 Join date : 2012-01-05
 | Subject: Re: Nomen est Omen Tue 24 Feb 2015, 14:34 | |
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Triceratops Censura

Posts : 3314 Join date : 2012-01-05
 | Subject: Re: Nomen est Omen Tue 24 Feb 2015, 14:37 | |
| Ronald Reagan's Press Secretary, Larry Speakes;  |
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Triceratops Censura

Posts : 3314 Join date : 2012-01-05
 | Subject: Re: Nomen est Omen Tue 24 Feb 2015, 14:42 | |
| Future astronaut Buzz Aldrin (back left) standing next to his mother, Marion Aldrin nee Moon;  |
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Triceratops Censura

Posts : 3314 Join date : 2012-01-05
 | Subject: Re: Nomen est Omen Tue 24 Feb 2015, 14:49 | |
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Gilgamesh of Uruk Censura

Posts : 1560 Join date : 2011-12-27
 | Subject: Re: Nomen est Omen Tue 24 Feb 2015, 16:12 | |
|  Estate agents. Nuff said. |
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Triceratops Censura

Posts : 3314 Join date : 2012-01-05
 | Subject: Re: Nomen est Omen Wed 25 Feb 2015, 09:28 | |
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Triceratops Censura

Posts : 3314 Join date : 2012-01-05
 | Subject: Re: Nomen est Omen Wed 25 Feb 2015, 10:39 | |
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nordmann Nobiles Barbariæ

Posts : 6026 Join date : 2011-12-25
 | Subject: Re: Nomen est Omen Wed 25 Feb 2015, 12:50 | |
| Famous neurologist Russell Brain ...  First woman to hurdle 400m in under 53 seconds, Marina Stepanova ...  And of course our old friend Thomas Crapper (he of flush toilet fame) ...  The opposite to an aptronym (as the ones above) is of course an inaptronym. Some notable examples are ... Singer with the pop group Coil who died when he fell from a two storey balcony, John Balance ...  The only member of ZZ Top who didn't sport a beard when they were famous, Frank Beard ...  Ex Ku Klux Klan leader and prominent white supremacist, Don Black ...  |
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Triceratops Censura

Posts : 3314 Join date : 2012-01-05
 | Subject: Re: Nomen est Omen Wed 25 Feb 2015, 13:35 | |
| The poet, William Wordsworth;  still chuckling at Don Black. |
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Vizzer Censura

Posts : 917 Join date : 2012-05-12
 | Subject: Re: Nomen est Omen Wed 25 Feb 2015, 22:03 | |
| Sometimes called the 'Father of Fleet Street' - the 15th Century printer and publisher Wynken de Worde:  |
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nordmann Nobiles Barbariæ

Posts : 6026 Join date : 2011-12-25
 | Subject: Re: Nomen est Omen Thu 26 Feb 2015, 09:12 | |
| There have been an impressive amount of track athletes in the past who ran for a living (and some today too) called Walker. I have often wondered whether they felt they had someting to prove. |
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Triceratops Censura

Posts : 3314 Join date : 2012-01-05
 | Subject: Re: Nomen est Omen Thu 26 Feb 2015, 09:55 | |
| There is an American racing driver called Scott Speed;  |
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nordmann Nobiles Barbariæ

Posts : 6026 Join date : 2011-12-25
 | Subject: Re: Nomen est Omen Fri 27 Feb 2015, 10:06 | |
| On April 29th 2014 a 62 year old Canadian man was arrested for revealing his privates to unsuspecting female visitors to Ottawa's Mooney's Bay Park. His name was Don Popadick. |
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Gilgamesh of Uruk Censura

Posts : 1560 Join date : 2011-12-27
 | Subject: Re: Nomen est Omen Fri 27 Feb 2015, 19:48 | |
| - @nordmann wrote:
- On April 29th 2014 a 62 year old Canadian man was arrested for revealing his privates to unsuspecting female visitors to Ottawa's Mooney's Bay Park. His name was Don Popadick.
Given the location, he was dropping the wrong part of his attire. |
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nordmann Nobiles Barbariæ

Posts : 6026 Join date : 2011-12-25
 | Subject: Re: Nomen est Omen Fri 17 Jul 2015, 09:07 | |
| I forgot this lassie when we were discussing aptonyms earlier ...  Margaret - the Australian tennis player best remembered for her exploits on her surname. |
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