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HelloIAmYourHeart posted:Still, that was almost as good as when I was in the hospital and my nurses were Karma and Sunshine. You know the nursing shortage is bad when strippers are moonlighting at hospitals. At least they already have the uniform.
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Two brothers in different year groups at my highschool had the surname Dick. They were often referred to (by other students) as Big Dick and Little Dick. Big Dick was in my class, and his actual first name was Ryan. At one point, a substitute teacher insisted on calling him Richard Ryan, and got increasingly frustrated as we told her she was wrong.
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Bobby Digital posted:You know the nursing shortage is bad when strippers are moonlighting at hospitals. At least they already have the uniform. Dude, I've worked with more than one nurse that moonlighted as a stripper. Thread content. Both of these are real surnames of people I know: Fagot Faganel They did not have easy childhoods.
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trauma llama posted:Dude, I've worked with more than one nurse that moonlighted as a stripper.
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Bobby Digital posted:You know the nursing shortage is bad when strippers are moonlighting at hospitals. At least they already have the uniform. Nothing says sexy like shapeless purple scrubs with Ziggy cartoons on them.
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The US Air Force loves Dick Bong. Just about every Air Force Base has a Dick Bong Road, sometimes two. The dude WAS pretty badass.
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Pastry of the Year posted:Nothing says sexy like shapeless purple scrubs with Ziggy cartoons on them. It's those upside down watches that do it for me.
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Pastry of the Year posted:If you think about it, Asia is a pretty weird name. I think I may have posted this before here, but my husband's uncle's sister, who is the whitest lady of all time, has an adopted Cambodian daughter and they named her Asia. It's just too tacky for words.
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I have met more than one white woman named China. Are they named after the fine dining foodware?
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marshmallow creep posted:I have met more than one white woman named China. Are they named after the fine dining foodware? Likely, the dolls.
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trauma llama posted:Dude, I've worked with more than one nurse that moonlighted as a stripper.  This is Donald Fagen, part of Steely Dan and also an accomplished dad rock/yacht rock solo artist. Once when I was searching for his music in my playlist I typed "gay" and got confused why nothing showed up in the autocomplete.
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At least it's pronounced "Fay-gen," I'm pretty sure
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Laserjet 4P posted:Once when I was searching for his music in my playlist I typed "gay" and got confused why nothing showed up in the autocomplete. I don't understand, what were you expecting to come up?
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Olive Garden tonight! posted:I don't understand, what were you expecting to come up? if they had typed "fag" it would have auto-completed to Fagen, which is what they were expecting. Instead, they wrote gay, which does not auto-complete into Fagen. Because fag is a slur for gays, you see
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Olive Garden tonight! posted:I don't understand, what were you expecting to come up? I think it was an attempt at a joke but boy was it ever a dud Either that or L4P also might type "dinner" into the playlist search and be surprised at the absence of Meatloaf
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Why does anyone named Richard EVER go by "Dick"? My dad's name is Richard, he's almost seventy, and he still doesn't let anyone call him that (except my brother.)
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Flipping through the channels tonight we came across a DIY crafting show hosted by a woman named Didiayer *lastname* . How do you even pronounce that?
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Astrofig posted:Flipping through the channels tonight we came across a DIY crafting show hosted by a woman named Didiayer *lastname* . How do you even pronounce that? Some sort of bastardization of Didier I suppose? I met a little kid named Blade the other day, that was pretty cool. He had a rat tail.
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Nostradingus posted:I met a little kid named Blade the other day, that was pretty cool. He had a rat tail. You could have just said the first sentence; the second is implied.
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Fleta Mcgurn posted:Why does anyone named Richard EVER go by "Dick"? My dad's name is Richard, he's almost seventy, and he still doesn't let anyone call him that (except my brother.) So instead of a Dick he's a pussy 
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sweeperbravo posted:I think it was an attempt at a joke but boy was it ever a dud I fix Laserjet 4P posted:
 Fagen isn't that funny of a name but he 100% always looks like he was interrupted in the process of trading Russian teenagers for diamonds
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Rejected names for newly-born children in Finland last year (all the English-language ones would have been rejected as a matter of course because names have to be Finnish): Boys: Saurus Soulio Rontti (What's Left Over When You Eat An Apple, also Scoundrel) Lexx Jubileum Rolandaxis S. Haades Moolok KingJames Southerncross Lyricpoet Karhukuningas (Bear King) Greed Pasintero (Pasi's Tero. Pasi and Tero are both normal names.) Girls: Toisaa (  )Ammu (Moo) Ravenheart Hukka (Euphemism For Wolf) 3D Megadoodoo has a new favorite as of 14:06 on Mar 1, 2017 |
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Jerry Cotton posted:Rejected names for newly-born children in Finland last year (all the English-language ones would have been rejected as a matter of course because names have to be Finnish): Is this true even for people who are not native Finns or naturalized citizens, like maybe people working there on a visa? edit: a couple minutes of research says that waivers are given for "valid family, religious or ethnic reasons" per Wikipedia. HelloIAmYourHeart has a new favorite as of 14:21 on Mar 1, 2017 |
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HelloIAmYourHeart posted:Is this true even for people who are not native Finns or naturalized cititzens, like maybe people working there on a visa? No.
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It would be pretty wicked if someone went into labor on holiday and therefore is forced to give their kid a Finnish name...
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Are wolves such a taboo in Finland that you need a euphemism for them?
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Flipperwaldt posted:Are wolves such a taboo in Finland that you need a euphemism for them? Old languages tend to have (or have had) euphemisms for important (either as threats or as food or both) animals. You can call it taboo if you want. e: Well I don't know if they actually "tend to" or not but many do. 3D Megadoodoo has a new favorite as of 16:52 on Mar 1, 2017 |
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The "real" Finnish word for wolf, Susi, has been in use as a name for both men and women for over a hundred years but it's very rare.
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Well, I had no idea. I can't think of anything like that in dutch or english, but maybe I just have a blind spot because I don't really understand the mechanism or the need it fulfills. Mildly interesting though.
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Flipperwaldt posted:Well, I had no idea. I can't think of anything like that in dutch or english, but maybe I just have a blind spot because I don't really understand the mechanism or the need it fulfills. Mildly interesting though. English is like two hundred years old as a language. They'd killed off most animals on the island by then.
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Pastry of the Year posted:If you think about it, Asia is a pretty weird name. When I was teaching in Spain I had at two students who were white as the driven snow named Africa.
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Flipperwaldt posted:Well, I had no idea. I can't think of anything like that in dutch or english, but maybe I just have a blind spot because I don't really understand the mechanism or the need it fulfills. Mildly interesting though. My understanding is that it's on the order of "speak of the devil and he will come," dating back to the days when "killed by animals" was a relatively common way to go out.
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Words for animals like wolves and bears being taboo is something that extends pretty far back in human history across many different languages. Contribution to the thread: Pud
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Koyaanisgoatse posted:Words for animals like wolves and bears being taboo is something that extends pretty far back in human history across many different languages. I heard somewhere that the german equivalent for "speak of the devil" is "name the wolf and he comes running". Can anyone confirm/deny?
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ladron posted:I heard somewhere that the german equivalent for "speak of the devil" is "name the wolf and he comes running". Can anyone confirm/deny? Wikipedia has a collection of those, the Czech one is close to that one. (Along with "Speak of the poo poo, and there it is on your shoe") e - lot of languages have a wolf in that saying. Some just like beating up dogs 
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