I've been up to this for a while, and it always give me a good laugh. The idea is puerile and pre-adolescent in it's childishness, but it's a good laugh.
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I know a Richard Gass who does not want to be called "Dick".
Long ago in the Kentucky Mountains I came across a great mountain man name on the mailbox: Hezekiah Wagstaff. Not funny, per se, I suppose, but I do like that name.
Cowboy: Why you doin' this, Doc?
Doc Holliday: Because Wyatt Earp is my friend.
Cowboy: Friend? Hell, I got lots of friends.
Doc Holliday: ... I don't.
I once knew a guy whose first name was Thaddeus, and his middle name was Peter. To avoid being called TP, he called himself Tip.
"Persevera, per severa, per se vera." Persist through difficulties, even though it is hard.
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"There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences." - PJ O'Rourke
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"Men and women range themselves into three classes or orders of intelligence; you can tell the lowest class by their habit of always talking about persons; the next by the fact that their habit is always to converse about things; the highest by their preference for the discussion of ideas." - Charles Stewart
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"I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." - James Madison
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Why don't people think about initials when they name their kids?
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Cameraman Jenn wrote:How long do you think it will take the grade school kids to get to Pile O Shit for Shiloh Pitt?
5 minutes. At most.
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In one newsroom where I worked, we used to have a whole list of people with odd names. The only one I can think of right now is the guy who did p.r. for the Pungo Strawberry Festival, whose name was Stuart Cake.
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"Dreaming isn't good for you unless you do the things it tells you to." -- Three Dog Night (via the GI)
I went to high school with a guy named Joe Studley the 3rd. I also had a repair shop account when I was working in Boston and the shop was owned by a guy named Dick Manly.
Now if I could just find a way to wear live bees as jewelry all the time.....
"This is Studley and Manly's body-shop. How may I help you?"
Edit: Not knowin my celebs, I had to Google Shiloh Pitt. Heh! with a venegance. Though it's a shame for the poor kid, that his parents don't have any feeling for the rhytmick switching of syllables. (Yes, yes. There is another puerile joke in there, I just can't make it really good).
(What's the expression for that in English? In Danish the household name is "Bakke Snagvendt", which translates into something like "Valking Reterse")
"I would have gone to the thesaurus for a more erudite word."
-Hashi Lebwohl
I worked with a very nice gal at a record shop with the surname Growcock. After discussing with her funny names, she showed me an even more unfortunate name in the phone book there; Harold Dickensheets.
Someone I went to school with had the unfortunate name of Quoc Dang. I always thought his name sounded like someone spitting into a spittoon.
Life is a waste of time
Time is a waste of life
So get wasted all of the time
And you'll have the time of your life
even tho its already been mentioned,,there is an engineer where i work at,,who proudly wears a employee badge announcing his name: Dick Head. What I've noticed over the years, is that he has it renewed quite frequently and keeps the photo badge very clean and he wears it right there at his breast pocket...Sooo..hes like rubbing it in on the rest of us. I mean..here we are in Corporate world,,manditory photo badges and what not,,and this guy is throwing a pie in to our face..Dick Head. I mean.. he once took the same elevator ride as I did,,and it took everything I had to not burst out laffing by the 2nd floor. There was a VP in the elevator with us , who I knew since he was a line manager. At the 3rd floor before he got out, he turned to me and said.."You think you got problems? We got a new President joining us from Georgia in two weeks,,and I got to introduce him to ,,( he nodded towards Dick Head),,"...
If she withdrew from exaltation, she would be forced to think- And every thought led to fear and contradictions; to dilemmas for which she was unprepared.
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