The League of Unfortunate Names
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@Fox said in The League of Unfortunate Names:
@Karla said in The League of Unfortunate Names:
I've mentioned this before. This is the doctor that did my hand surgery after an infected cat bite.
http://www.cumc.columbia.edu/psjournal/memoriam/harold-m-dick-md
He goes by Harry, right?
Of course, he does.
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@sloosecannon said in The League of Unfortunate Names:
Yeah. He had 11 siblings, all named after the months. Obviously.
And one more sibling who was the black sheep of the family.
Lousy Smarch.
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@Lorne-Kates said in The League of Unfortunate Names:
@sloosecannon said in The League of Unfortunate Names:
Yeah. He had 11 siblings, all named after the months. Obviously.
And one more sibling who was the black sheep of the family.
Lousy Smarch.
I'm not sure if it'd be worse to be named March March or Smarch March.
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@da-Doctah I don't know about Japanese, but the wikipedia page for Latin praenomina lists ordinal female names from Prima to Decima (all numbers from 1 to 10), while it only lists ordinal male names from Quintus to Decimus (only from 5 to 10).
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@da-Doctah said in The League of Unfortunate Names:
I went to high school with someone named August March.
Did he step in perfect time and walk with great decorum?
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@pydsigner said in The League of Unfortunate Names:
@da-Doctah said in The League of Unfortunate Names:
I went to high school with someone named August March.
Did he step in perfect time and walk with great decorum?
Let's be fair here. August was his real name, but he was known as Sandy because he had red hair. (I'm assuming that's a sensible reason to those with "normal" color vision, because it certainly doesn't work for me.)
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@da-Doctah said in The League of Unfortunate Names:
I'm assuming that's a sensible reason to those with "normal" color vision, because it certainly doesn't work for me.
I'm as confused as you.
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@da-Doctah said in The League of Unfortunate Names:
@pydsigner said in The League of Unfortunate Names:
@da-Doctah said in The League of Unfortunate Names:
I went to high school with someone named August March.
Did he step in perfect time and walk with great decorum?
Let's be fair here. August was his real name, but he was known as Sandy because he had red hair. (I'm assuming that's a sensible reason to those with "normal" color vision, because it certainly doesn't work for me.)
Sand isn't typically red like that 🔴
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The League of Unfortunate Names:
Sand isn't typically red like that
Depends where you are.
http://thesentimentalbloke.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/Dune-3.jpg
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@flabdablet said in The League of Unfortunate Names:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The League of Unfortunate Names:
Sand isn't typically red like that
Depends where you are.
http://thesentimentalbloke.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/Dune-3.jpg
That's more orange than red though... ;)
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Nobody says "who is that orangehead".
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@flabdablet said in The League of Unfortunate Names:
Nobody says "who is that orangehead".
That's because there would never be any songs about them were it so.
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@Tsaukpaetra yeah because nothing rhymes with orange.
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@flabdablet said in The League of Unfortunate Names:
Nobody says "who is that orangehead".
That's because every cis male scumbag just goes 'hubahuba' in his mind.
Hubahubahuba ... Oooh
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@Arantor said in The League of Unfortunate Names:
@Tsaukpaetra yeah because nothing rhymes with orange.
Nothing doesn't even sound anything close to orange
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@Tsaukpaetra It does if you use the right accent
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@Yamikuronue said in The League of Unfortunate Names:
@Tsaukpaetra It does if you use the right accent
Örange?
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@Tsaukpaetra I once watched an episode of some sitcom my siblings were watching, where the guy was annoyed by that for the whole episode, but then settled on 'door hinge'
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@Magus said in The League of Unfortunate Names:
@Tsaukpaetra I once watched an episode of some sitcom my siblings were watching, where the guy was annoyed by that for the whole episode, but then settled on 'door hinge'
Helps if you drop the "h" I suppose.
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@pydsigner Not enough.
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@Magus said in The League of Unfortunate Names:
@pydsigner Not enough.
Check out my Oringe Door'inge
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@pydsigner said in The League of Unfortunate Names:
@Magus said in The League of Unfortunate Names:
@pydsigner Not enough.
Aren't chu glad you Checked out my Oringe Door'inge
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@Magus said in The League of Unfortunate Names:
@Tsaukpaetra I once watched an episode of some sitcom my siblings were watching, where the guy was annoyed by that for the whole episode, but then settled on 'door hinge'
There once was a man from East Orange....
No, that's not going to work. Let's try something else.
There once was a man made of silver....
Oh hell. This is harder than I thought!
A man who wrote poems last month....
God damn it.
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@Arantor said in The League of Unfortunate Names:
nothing rhymes with orange
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@flabdablet said in The League of Unfortunate Names:
Nobody says "who is that orangehead".
No, everyone knows Trump already.
@Magus said in The League of Unfortunate Names:
@Tsaukpaetra I once watched an episode of some sitcom my siblings were watching, where the guy was annoyed by that for the whole episode, but then settled on 'door hinge'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9bXjttMxKY
3:25, if you're impatient.
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@Zecc I was thinking of this when posting earlier. I should play this again.
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New Issue in the application mentioned elsewhere ... It calls you names ...
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Restaurant in the neighborhood. Probably popular for first dates.
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@da-Doctah said in The League of Unfortunate Names:
We all know how to pronounce that Vietnamese ở with the two accent marks by now, right?
You’re not telling me that name’s any more accidental than that of the Australian Centurion tank in Vietnam¹ that its crew named “Phuoc Me”.
¹ Yes, i have a very associative memory.
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@da-Doctah said in The League of Unfortunate Names:
We all know how to pronounce that Vietnamese ở with the two accent marks by now, right?
I thought that was just a joke when I saw one of our chat rooms with that title!
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Something about that username caught my attention ... turned out there where two of them!
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ດອກຈຳປາ is the Lao name for the Frangipani flower, Laos' national flower. The French-influenced Lao romanization is "Dok Champa" but if you insist on using the English-inspired Thai one, you get this:
That's also what causes the frequent Thai name suffix "-porn".
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@flabdablet said in The League of Unfortunate Names:
Nobody says "who is that orangehead".
Karen looks so much better with her hair ... and with normal, not-blue skin.
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@El_Heffe Looks like its an "artist name"? Doesn't look all that unfortunate when he picked it himself.
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@JBert Agreed: it's not unfortunate if you choose it
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@RaceProUK
Did he choose it? Or did the wrestling hegemony force it on him? Maybe he was name raped!
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@RaceProUK said in The League of Unfortunate Names:
it's not unfortunate if you choose it
Could be he is unfortunate in having the kind of mind that picks a stage name like that, though that would require thread for the League of Unfortunate Intelligences I suppose. Better not make that, I have a feeling it’d be never-ending.
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@Gurth said in The League of Unfortunate Names:
Could be he is unfortunate in having the kind of mind that picks a stage name like that, though that would require thread for the League of Unfortunate Intelligences I suppose.
We have a site for that already: it's called The Daily WTF ;)
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@Gurth Yeah, one of the (many, many) plotlines in Illuminatus! revolves around a coup on that island and a Cold War crisis that resulted from it; the book consistently uses the "Fernando Poo" version, for fairly obvious reasons of alleged humor (though mostly in the form of sardonic observations about the jokes being made about it by various comedians and late-night talk show hosts).
Apropos of nothing, the subject of poorly-chosen aliases and codenames is a common bit of humor in the Whateley Academy series, often revolving around some kid picking a codename which didn't mean what they thought it did, or something they thought was cool but later came to regret. Examples in the series include:
- 'Power Pork', a supervillain who picked his codename as a joke while at school, but since then has been trying for years to get his codename changed. Fat chance. Often used by the teachers as an example of why you shouldn't mess around when picking your codename.
- Mega-Death, a (usually) mild-mannered Devisor, chose his name while in the throes of a Diedrick's Syndrome episode. He's regretted it ever since.
- N'Dizi thought his codename sounds cool and Afro-centric. It turns out to mean 'cucumber'.
- A vicious gossip with translating powers was dubbed 'Traduce' by one of the upperclassmen, and she thought it was a good choice for her codename. She didn't get the joke until it was too late.
- Boom Job quickly found herself nicknamed 'Boob Job'. Shortening it to 'BJ' only added to the snickering.
- A speedster tried the codename 'Quickie' in her freshman year, but after she figured out what everyone was laughing at, she went with the only slightly less embarrassing 'Go-Go'.
Not really on topic, but I figured I'd mention it because, Whateley.
Filed Under: Obsessed? Me? Don't be ridiculous!
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@flabdablet said in The League of Unfortunate Names:
Nobody says "who is that orangehead".
Fun fact! That's because English didn't differentiate between the colors red and orange until the 1540s, long after the term was coined.
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@anonymous234 Thanks to that article, I now want some purple carrots
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@PJH said in The word 'microagression' is a microagression.:
Although it could be worse. INB4: @OffByOne