BS: First name only

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: Rusty Dobro
Date: 14 Jan 19 - 04:09 AM

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

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: punkfolkrocker
Date: 13 Jan 19 - 10:08 PM

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

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: 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: Ed T
Date: 13 Jan 19 - 07:45 PM

Beyoncé

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

Che

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

Biggles...

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: 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: 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: 11 Jan 19 - 04:13 PM

So Mo the Caller must have thought of a Dylan (last name) that still eludes me.

Subject: RE: BS: First name only
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 11 Jan 19 - 01:38 PM

"Miss Of-Arc." I love it!

I always thought that Bono's first name was "Twat."

I remember when Jonathan Ross was interviewing The Edge, and asked him "Is it OK if I just call you The?"

Subject: RE: BS: First name only
From: Senoufou
Date: 11 Jan 19 - 01:29 PM

I think Nigel that Bill and Ted's film was late eighties, whereas my pupils were creating those howlers in the mid-seventies.

I always liked Dylan the rabbit. He was a sort of half-stoned, guitar-playing hippy.

Subject: RE: BS: First name only
From: Jos
Date: 11 Jan 19 - 01:11 PM

"who comes to mind if you say Dylan?"

For me, Bob Dylan, Dylan Thomas, Dylan the rabbit in 'The Magic Roundabout' - no others, so two first names.

Subject: RE: BS: First name only
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 11 Jan 19 - 11:25 AM

From: Senoufou - PM
Date: 10 Jan 19 - 04:13 AM
Isn't Jeremy Kyle known as 'Jez'?
I've had more than one pupil pronounce Socrates as 'So-Crates'.

That pronunciation is used in the film "Bill and Ted's excellent adventure" which might be where they get it from.
It also featured "that short dead dude" (Napoleon) and "Miss Of-Arc" (Joan)

Subject: RE: BS: First name only
From: Senoufou
Date: 11 Jan 19 - 11:06 AM

Prince, Rihanna, Lulu, Cher, Sting, Bono.

Subject: RE: BS: First name only
From: punkfolkrocker
Date: 11 Jan 19 - 09:59 AM

God...


...well.. seeing as we're also listing fictional characters...

Subject: RE: BS: First name only
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 11 Jan 19 - 09:34 AM

Baldrick

Subject: RE: BS: First name only
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 11 Jan 19 - 09:34 AM

Edge (the)

Subject: RE: BS: First name only
From: punkfolkrocker
Date: 11 Jan 19 - 09:29 AM

Liberace...

Subject: RE: BS: First name only
From: Mo the caller
Date: 11 Jan 19 - 09:17 AM

So who comes to mind if you say Dylan? (for the 3 that I think of only 1 is a Christian name)

Subject: RE: BS: First name only
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 11 Jan 19 - 07:39 AM

The reverse, I suppose, of the situation pertaining to the great Hungarian footballer Flórián Albert. From a certain angle it sounds like a cosy, middle-aged couple in Coronation Street.

Subject: RE: BS: First name only
From: Ebbie
Date: 11 Jan 19 - 03:33 AM

At music the other evening the wife of one of the musicians made a rare appearance; they are Paul and June. Another of the musicians confessed that for a long time he thought that Paul's name was 'Paul Anjune'.

Subject: RE: BS: First name only
From: Mr Red
Date: 10 Jan 19 - 04:44 AM

no one apart from his cronies know who the slippery elusive bugger is...!!!]

or who THEY are! They are an cooperative/studio anyway these days. Maybe it is/was two people/item from the start. With all that financial acumen - it has to be more than one person. IMNSHO

Subject: RE: BS: First name only
From: Jos
Date: 10 Jan 19 - 04:32 AM

I'd never heard of Babe Ruth either - and I haven't bothered googling it, so I'm still none the wiser.

But I expect a lot of people on here have heard of Micca ...

Subject: RE: BS: First name only
From: Senoufou
Date: 10 Jan 19 - 04:13 AM

Isn't Jeremy Kyle known as 'Jez'?

I've had more than one pupil pronounce Socrates as 'So-Crates'.

(And one child in a Geography lesson who was very interested to find the Amazin' River on a map)

Subject: RE: BS: First name only
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 10 Jan 19 - 04:01 AM

They're all Brazilian footballers except for Chicharito, who's a Mexixcan footballer. Sheesh.

Gazza. Jezza. Jazza (Archers). Macca. Dubya.

Subject: RE: BS: First name only
From: Acorn4
Date: 10 Jan 19 - 03:53 AM

Vin, Flossie, Les.

Subject: RE: BS: First name only
From: punkfolkrocker
Date: 09 Jan 19 - 10:47 PM

Banksy...

[probably our most famous artist from the South West of England
and no one apart from his cronies know who the slippery elusive bugger is...!!!]

Subject: RE: BS: First name only
From: Rapparee
Date: 09 Jan 19 - 09:49 PM

The residents of Tallula, Illinois would also contest a monopoly on the name. (Of course, the town's only claim to fame is that the road to Cleary's Grove is there.)

Subject: RE: BS: First name only
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 09 Jan 19 - 09:22 PM

I recognized only two of the names in Steve's list - they're not all universally recognized by non-sports fans.

Subject: RE: BS: First name only
From: meself
Date: 09 Jan 19 - 09:12 PM

Does Sir Paul qualify?

Subject: RE: BS: First name only
From: pdq
Date: 09 Jan 19 - 08:04 PM

Charo.

Homer and Jethro?

Subject: RE: BS: First name only
From: Ed T
Date: 09 Jan 19 - 07:41 PM

I suspect individuals with less common first names are easier to identify than names like Dave or Steve?

Some celebrities use(d) different first names to help single them out, like
Babe Ruth (George Herman Ruth Jr.). Would we have easily remembered him only as George?

Subject: RE: BS: First name only
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 09 Jan 19 - 06:54 PM

The residents of Tallulah Falls, Georgia would've probably contested Ms Bankhead's claim of ownership since the town has established well before her birth.

But her friend, Mrs. Fitzgerald, pretty much owned "Zelda".

Subject: RE: BS: First name only
From: Mrrzy
Date: 09 Jan 19 - 06:50 PM

Twiggy! Oh, wait, *Dame* Twiggy!

Subject: RE: BS: First name only
From: Joe_F
Date: 09 Jan 19 - 05:33 PM

When I was little I heard in the news that Bankhead thought she owned "Tallulah".

Subject: RE: BS: First name only
From: Jos
Date: 09 Jan 19 - 03:42 PM

I think maybe that proves my point (but I could be wrong, so let's not go on and on and on about it ... )

Subject: RE: BS: First name only
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 09 Jan 19 - 03:30 PM

Nope. They are or were all footballers!

Subject: RE: BS: First name only
From: Jos
Date: 09 Jan 19 - 03:27 PM

Of Steve Shaw's list, I believe one of them is/was a footballer and another is either a football player or a team manager. Other than those two, the only one I have heard of is Socrates. Most people are known to the people around them by their first name.

Subject: RE: BS: First name only
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 09 Jan 19 - 01:05 PM

Not Adolf. Adolf was the first name of Adolf Busch, a German musician, founder of the legendary Busch Quartet, a man who vehemently opposed the Nazis and who left Germany in protest just before the war, never to reside there again. I revere their recordings of Beethoven's late quartets above all else, so when I hear the name Adolf I think of him first and foremost.

Subject: RE: BS: First name only
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 09 Jan 19 - 12:56 PM

Pelé. Jairzinho. Allison. Chicharito. Ronaldo (the Brazilian one). Ronaldinho. Socrates. Romario. Hulk. Fred. Garrincha. Odd man out, anybody? :-)

Subject: RE: BS: First name only
From: punkfolkrocker
Date: 09 Jan 19 - 12:24 PM

Twinkle...

Well.. she's one on my favourites...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlUw5nlAXIo