BS: Nominative Determinisms ????

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From: fat B****rd
Date: 05 Apr 17 - 06:27 AM

My Mother told me of a Doctor when she was a child in Sunderland named Poysner!!

Subject: RE: BS: Nominative Determinisms ????
From: Mike in Brunswick
Date: 05 Apr 17 - 12:16 AM

A couple of Nominative non-Determinisms from several years ago.

Roman Catholic honcho in Manila - Cardinal Sin

Top law enforcement officer in Montgomery County, Maryland - Chief Crook

Mike

Subject: RE: BS: Nominative Determinisms ????
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 04 Apr 17 - 06:26 AM

It's a rare man that's never touched the cloth, Nigel...

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From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 04 Apr 17 - 05:22 AM

Despite my name I've never felt called to the cloth.
Although, does 50+ years in the church choir count?

Subject: RE: BS: Nominative Determinisms ????
From: Raggytash
Date: 03 Apr 17 - 12:58 PM

My biology teacher at school was named Joe Rabbit


Vicious, sadistic bastard he was, should never have been allowed near children.

Subject: RE: BS: Nominative Determinisms ????
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 03 Apr 17 - 11:38 AM

There was a Dr Blood in Bude.

Subject: RE: BS: Nominative Determinisms ????
From: Mrrzy
Date: 03 Apr 17 - 10:56 AM

I've cited a neurologist named Brain... and thought, what choice did the poor guy have?

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From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 03 Apr 17 - 10:16 AM

And in England at least we know what to call a big fart...

Nice letter in the Guardian pointing out that the name of the Westminster minister with the job of trying to patch up things in Northern Ireland is called Mr Brokenshire.

Subject: RE: BS: Nominative Determinisms ????
From: frogprince
Date: 03 Apr 17 - 10:15 AM

My all time favorite, from local television ads many long years ago:

"For soft water service, call your Culligan dealer, Sandy Leak, in Minnesota Lake".   Scouts honor, not makin' that up.

Subject: RE: BS: Nominative Determinisms ????
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 03 Apr 17 - 08:59 AM

Card players will know of what always wins: Trump

Subject: RE: BS: Nominative Determinisms ????
From: Newport Boy
Date: 03 Apr 17 - 08:42 AM

A firm of Estate Agents in Newport, South Wales - Crook & Blight!

Subject: RE: BS: Nominative Determinisms ????
From: FreddyHeadey
Date: 03 Apr 17 - 04:50 AM

BBC radio4 programme presenter Food Programme - Dan Saladino

Subject: BS: Nominative Determinisms ????
From: Mr Red
Date: 03 Apr 17 - 03:55 AM

This was coined by the columnist "Feedback" in the New Scientist to describe the tendency of people with certain names to gravitate toward careers that make us smile. Wiki on Nominative Determinism citing the progenitor of the genre - a paper on incontinence by A J Splatt and D Weedon**. Or even Sigmund Freud who studied pleasure (German for joy). The Wiki is quite serious in its explanation.

Found recently - the owner of a company in my town called Mobiloo (a mobile loo/changing room designed for wheelchair users etc in a van) has the name Philip Douch.
A very laudable enterprise, staffed by volunteers.

Probably the same lecturer at Exeter Uni Medical School.

I am sure we all remember someone like the dentist in Walsall years ago - Savage.