BS: First name only

Subject: RE: BS: First name only
From: Mo the caller
Date: 12 Jan 19 - 06:26 AM

Jos, I said Christian name not first name. Does it count as Christian if it's a rabbit. Or first for that matter, if there only ever was 1

Subject: RE: BS: First name only
From: Jos
Date: 12 Jan 19 - 03:37 PM

Ah, I see your point about the rabbit's 'Christian' name.

But isn't having only one name what this thread is about? Did Tarzan have another name? The original post refers to 'folks who can get away with a nickname or just a first name'.

Subject: RE: BS: First name only
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 12 Jan 19 - 06:51 PM

"Does it count as Christian if it's a rabbit"

It might do. I understand from a local priest that the patron saint of mosquitoes is St Bugs.

Subject: RE: BS: First name only
From: punkfolkrocker
Date: 12 Jan 19 - 11:08 PM

Biggles...

Subject: RE: BS: First name only
From: Ed T
Date: 13 Jan 19 - 07:43 PM

Che

Subject: RE: BS: First name only
From: Ed T
Date: 13 Jan 19 - 07:45 PM

Beyoncé

Subject: RE: BS: First name only
From: Ed T
Date: 13 Jan 19 - 07:52 PM

https://m.ranker.com/list/most-iconic-celebrity-first-names/carlybobarly

Subject: RE: BS: First name only
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 13 Jan 19 - 07:59 PM

Luke. Christy. Shane. Woody. No need for second names for those in my house.

Subject: RE: BS: First name only
From: punkfolkrocker
Date: 13 Jan 19 - 10:08 PM

Surprising we got so far without "Clint"...

Subject: RE: BS: First name only
From: Mr Red
Date: 14 Jan 19 - 04:08 AM

Che

er close but no cigar.

And wasn't his first name Ernesto?




call me a pedant (as a first name)

Subject: RE: BS: First name only
From: Rusty Dobro
Date: 14 Jan 19 - 04:09 AM

Max......Joe.....

Subject: RE: BS: First name only
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 14 Jan 19 - 03:40 PM

Under the "one name only needed" idea, you can extend it. Einstein. Tesla. Hawking.

Subject: RE: BS: First name only
From: Mrrzy
Date: 15 Jan 19 - 12:07 AM

Not only one *needed* but only one, like Madonna or Cher. There are tons who can go by their last name alone, like Hitler, but we still *know* the first name.

And not all first names are Xn names.

Subject: RE: BS: First name only
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 15 Jan 19 - 03:31 AM

Boris

And Vlad.

But Donald is primarily a duck.

Subject: RE: BS: First name only
From: Doug Chadwick
Date: 16 Jan 19 - 04:31 AM

Vlad the Impaler comes to mind before Putin, for me.

DC

Subject: RE: BS: First name only
From: Senoufou
Date: 16 Jan 19 - 04:48 AM

I always associate 'Vladimir' with Ashkenazy. His playing of Beethoven's 5th Piano Concerto (the 'Emperor') is sublime. I've listened to it so often I know every note!

Subject: RE: BS: First name only
From: Mr Red
Date: 16 Jan 19 - 04:55 AM

Herrod
Goliath
Methusala
Noah
Job
Adam
Eve

come to think of it there are 12 more you could point to...........

Well 11 - that Iscariot fellow !

Subject: RE: BS: First name only
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 16 Jan 19 - 05:43 AM

Speaking of classical pianists, there's Solomon.

Subject: RE: BS: First name only
From: Senoufou
Date: 16 Jan 19 - 06:15 AM

I've had children ask me what was Noah's surname. And one enterprising lad offered Sark. Noah Sark, geddit? :)

Subject: RE: BS: First name only
From: MickyMan
Date: 16 Jan 19 - 02:29 PM

Rudolph
( Do reindeer count? LOL! )

Subject: RE: BS: First namso also loosely associated e only
From: Jos
Date: 16 Jan 19 - 02:59 PM

Reindeer Rudolph is associated with a Christian festival, so does that make it a 'Christian' name?
And regarding the question, earlier about whether Dylan the rabbit's name was a Christian name, aren't rabbits related to Easter bunnies - and so also (loosely) associated with a Christian festival?

Subject: RE: BS: First name only
From: Mrrzy
Date: 16 Jan 19 - 03:22 PM

I always wondered why Peter had a last name but not Flopsy, Mopsy or Cottontail.

Subject: RE: BS: First name only
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 17 Jan 19 - 10:05 AM

Ahem. I'll try the right thread this time:

Rudolph can't have been Christian. He was a communist, Rudolph the Red. Tsk.

Subject: RE: BS: First name only
From: punkfolkrocker
Date: 17 Jan 19 - 10:30 AM

I've been sat on the bog* listening to maritime folk songs...

Nelson...


[* yes.. I did provide my own evocative sound effects of the wind and splashing sea...]

Subject: RE: BS: First name only
From: fat B****rd
Date: 17 Jan 19 - 01:04 PM

Rembrandt

Subject: RE: BS: First name only
From: Mr Red
Date: 18 Jan 19 - 04:02 AM

In my local churchyard there is a headstone of a guy who was born about the time of Nelson's death. His name was "Horatio Nelson Powell"

Alas poor Nelson - I knew him Horatio.

And it was said his last words were actually:
"Kiss me - HARDER!"



I'll get me sou'wester....

Subject: RE: BS: First name only
From: punkfolkrocker
Date: 18 Jan 19 - 04:38 AM

In the Royal Navy of that era...
we can be certain it wasn't "kiss my hard-on"...????

Subject: RE: BS: First name only
From: Mo the caller
Date: 19 Jan 19 - 07:14 AM

Mr Red - you can add another 2 (of 4) to your 12.

Subject: RE: BS: First name only
From: Severn
Date: 19 Jan 19 - 03:32 PM

I still use my last name, though I could probably ditch it if I ever got famous, but Severn Savage it stays. I kinda like it.

Subject: RE: BS: First name only
From: Mo the caller
Date: 19 Jan 19 - 04:45 PM

Mr Red's 12 again - how many are actually well known (and do some of them actually have the same first name so need a second name or father or brothers name to distinguish them, or are known by a double first name, or even different first names in different accounts)?
Go on, how many without looking them up? I used to be able to name 12 but only by thinking hard. Now in my atheist day I'm sure of 7 - ah yes 3 of the ones I was doubtful about were right (and the other was a replacement for Mr R's 11). And there were 2 with the same first name.

Subject: RE: BS: First name only
From: Ed T
Date: 19 Jan 19 - 08:00 PM

Dweezil

Subject: RE: BS: First name only
From: punkfolkrocker
Date: 19 Jan 19 - 11:14 PM

Popeye...

Sooty...

..and all their one named pals...

Subject: RE: BS: First name only
From: Jon Freeman
Date: 20 Jan 19 - 02:02 AM

Another footballer, Eusebio

Subject: RE: BS: First name only
From: SamStone
Date: 20 Jan 19 - 02:05 AM

Gord

Subject: RE: BS: First name only
From: Bill D
Date: 20 Jan 19 - 09:49 AM

My father had a name that 'almost' no one else had, but it was a lot of trouble to make it clear to strangers.

He was AUDLEY... but if he ordered something over the phone, mail and parcels would arrived addresses to Audrey, Aubrey... and even Oddley.

He gave up and mostly used his initials.. A.W.

Subject: RE: BS: First name only
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 20 Jan 19 - 09:55 AM

Adam. Eve.

Subject: RE: BS: First name only
From: Ed T
Date: 20 Jan 19 - 07:55 PM

RuPaul

Subject: RE: BS: First name only
From: punkfolkrocker
Date: 21 Jan 19 - 01:44 PM

Here's one for old Daily Mirror readers...

Garth...

Subject: RE: BS: First name only
From: JMB
Date: 21 Jan 19 - 08:40 PM

I think that the actor Emilio Estevez could be known by his first name alone.

Subject: RE: BS: First name only
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 21 Jan 19 - 08:51 PM

Samson. Delilah. Beelzebub. Morrissey. Titian. Canaletto. Tintoretto. Shylock. Satan. Figaro. Bob (the builder). Pat (postman).

Subject: RE: BS: First name only
From: punkfolkrocker
Date: 22 Jan 19 - 12:35 AM

Zebedee...
Florence...
Dougal...

Subject: RE: BS: First name only
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 22 Jan 19 - 04:49 AM

Three more: God.

Subject: RE: BS: First name only
From: punkfolkrocker
Date: 22 Jan 19 - 06:09 AM

Pugh,Pugh,Barney McGrew,Cuthbert,Dibble and Grubb...

Though one, or both, of the Pughs and Barney McGrew must be disqualified
as far as the already overstretched remit of this thread goes...

Subject: RE: BS: First name only
From: punkfolkrocker
Date: 22 Jan 19 - 06:40 AM

Bagpuss...

call this a folk site, call yourselves folkies...
How can you keep this thread running for so many days without a mention for
Britains only pink striped cat that inspired a respected collection of folkiesongs...

Subject: RE: BS: First name only
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 22 Jan 19 - 07:45 AM

Topcat. Well you just mentioned Officer Dibble...

Boo-boo. Well, unless Boo was his first name and Boo was his surname. Like Jerome K Jerome. Boo K Boo?

Subject: RE: BS: First name only
From: Jos
Date: 22 Jan 19 - 08:50 AM

Speaking of Jerome K. Jerome, I don't remember any other names being given in his books for George, Harris or Montmorency (the dog), though I could be wrong.

And what about Enid Blyton's characters, Julian, Dick, George, Anne, Timmy (the dog); and then there's Noddy (but presumably we can't count Big Ears ...).

Subject: RE: BS: First name only
From: Jon Freeman
Date: 22 Jan 19 - 08:58 AM

Eureka cries Archemedes as he counts the number of gods, people and others (eg. medusa?) that would only be known by one name in his own culture and other cultures.

Subject: RE: BS: First name only
From: Jos
Date: 22 Jan 19 - 09:06 AM

Don't most of the Classical Gods and Goddesses have two names, one Greek and one Latin?

Subject: RE: BS: First name only
From: Jon Freeman
Date: 22 Jan 19 - 09:15 AM

Cuspidore (a cheat - Chambers App got it, not me, and apparently a spittoon) to you Jos.

Subject: RE: BS: First name only
From: punkfolkrocker
Date: 22 Jan 19 - 09:21 AM

At grammar school we were only referred to by our surnames..

I've got a fairly common old English surname,
but at the time I was the only one in our year,
and maybe the entire school...

My mrs hasn't got a middle name.. [is that a Welsh culture thing...????]

Can imagine how far parents would get these days just putting one name,
even only the surname,
on a birth certificate...