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I don't know, I think it's kind of a cool name.  Book just makes everyone think people named Ahab are all...uh...Ahabian. Maybe there is a nice person named Ahab. Did you ever think of that? Probably not because you don't think as amazing thoughts as I think. Like, it's a guy named Ahab but he's a nurse during the day volunteers at the animal shelter at night. Think about that. I know, it's like  . How many of you are named Ahab? I bet not loving one. Not a gently caress one of you. Think about that for second too. . Think that's a coincidence? What a loving laugh. A farce. Folly. So, thoughts?
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I mean he was a huge rear end in a top hat and got a bunch of people killed just because he lost his leg to some dumb whale like a bitch. Then he tried to kill it and the whale kicked his rear end again and he drowned. PRET-TY LAME
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Dec 22, 2019 04:33
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Call me Ishmael, Bitch.
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Dec 22, 2019 04:34
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Best Names: Nebuchadnezzar Tiberius Quanterius Zane Xerxes Nefertiti Sir Chauncey Percival Higgenswallow, ESQ
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Dec 22, 2019 05:10
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You got something there OP. Quint wasn't even named Ahab now that I think about it.
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Dec 22, 2019 05:18
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Captain Peleg says the name was "a foolish, ignorant whim of his crazy, widowed mother" so it probably wasn't a super popular name before the book, either but now I'm tripping because Peleg, Deer, and Boomer go by their last names, so why tf is Ahab out there calling himself the equivalent of Captain Jeff? dork. then I realized Ishmael is only given a first name too unless his marriage to Queequeg is binding but I don't think Queequeg had a last name either
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Cubone posted:but now I'm tripping because Peleg, Deer, and Boomer go by their last names, so why tf is Ahab out there calling himself the equivalent of Captain Jeff? dork. Should've gone for the equivalent of Captain Jack. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Bb_w7nOBwg
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Dec 22, 2019 07:56
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melville? more like melvin
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The_Continental posted:Best Names: Nefertiti she a sweetie suck my balls till my peepee skeetie
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Dec 22, 2019 08:08
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Cubone posted:Captain Peleg says the name was "a foolish, ignorant whim of his crazy, widowed mother" so it probably wasn't a super popular name before the book, either Ishmael is not his real name. In fact, the text supports a reading where the entire plot is made up by a drunk deckhand who thinks whales are fish.
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Dec 22, 2019 08:35
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The_Continental posted:Best Names: Balthazar Mephistopheles
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Dec 22, 2019 08:38
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my sons name is God
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Dec 22, 2019 08:45
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terminal chillness posted:Ishmael is not his real name. In fact, the text supports a reading where the entire plot is made up by a drunk deckhand who thinks whales are fish.
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Dec 22, 2019 08:58
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Dec 22, 2019 09:12
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SUCK MY drat DILZ is underutilized because SUCK MY drat DILZ!!!!!
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Dec 22, 2019 11:12
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All heteros are bastards
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Dec 22, 2019 11:13
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cnut posted:SUCK MY drat DILZ is underutilized because SUCK MY drat DILZ!!!!! Looooool you tell em you loving tell em!! I'm pissed off!!
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Dec 22, 2019 11:14
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Lil Swamp Booger Baby posted:Looooool you tell em you loving tell em!! I'm pissed off!! You and me both, buddy!!!
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Dec 22, 2019 11:19
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Call me cis-male
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Dec 22, 2019 11:32
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i blame ray stevens
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Dec 22, 2019 11:35
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My son Curtbee Magshunp saw Hell when he was 4 years old
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Dec 22, 2019 12:08
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There may be another reason the name isn't popular: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ou57_ZjqNMs
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Dec 22, 2019 13:57
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A very cursed video.
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Dec 22, 2019 14:00
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I think is more because of Ahab Hitler.
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Dec 22, 2019 14:15
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His real name isn't much better: Colton Burpo.
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Dec 22, 2019 14:18
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Call me, Ishmael! 
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Dec 22, 2019 16:30
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is THIS all because of a holdhup on bodies? Because I SWEAR
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Dec 22, 2019 16:33
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Ahab. *sticks thumbs out like the Fonz* Ayyy-hab...!
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Dec 22, 2019 16:53
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III get sea sick 20 minutes in; still get entangled in other fishermen's lines.
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terminal chillness posted:Call me Ishmael, Bitch. MGSV's dialogue is v underrated imo
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Dec 22, 2019 17:18
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Looking to get salty with the sperm whales? Try Ahab, a hook up app for plus sized gentlemen.
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Squeeze! squeeze! squeeze! all the morning long; I squeezed that sperm till I myself almost melted into it; I squeezed that sperm till a strange sort of insanity came over me; and I found myself unwittingly squeezing my co-laborers’ hands in it, mistaking their hands for the gentle globules. Such an abounding, affectionate, friendly, loving feeling did this avocation beget; that at last I was continually squeezing their hands, and looking up into their eyes sentimentally; as much as to say,- Oh! my dear fellow beings, why should we longer cherish any social acerbities, or know the slightest ill-humor or envy! Come; let us squeeze hands all round; nay, let us all squeeze ourselves into each other; let us squeeze ourselves universally into the very milk and sperm of kindness.
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Literally A Person posted:I don't know, I think it's kind of a cool name. Ahab is a biblical name and in the bible its name of a wicked king of Israel who along with his wife Jezebel abandons the worship of YHWH and institutes the government-supported worship of the pagan Gods Ba'al and Asherah and persecuting all of the Israelite prophets and priests during his reign. In the book itself, its actually pointed out by several characters that this is one of the weirdest names you could give someone because anyone familiar enough with the Bible to know the name Ahab would be someone religious enough to not name a child after him. So no, its probably because of the Bible itself instead of Moby Dick
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Dec 22, 2019 17:52
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It's a guy named Ahab but he helps elderly people regain their independence and live a complete and fulfilling life.
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BIG FLUFFY DOG posted:Ahab is a biblical name and in the bible its name of a wicked king of Israel who along with his wife Jezebel abandons the worship of YHWH and institutes the government-supported worship of the pagan Gods Ba'al and Asherah and persecuting all of the Israelite prophets and priests during his reign. In the book itself, its actually pointed out by several characters that this is one of the weirdest names you could give someone because anyone familiar enough with the Bible to know the name Ahab would be someone religious enough to not name a child after him. A wise guy, eh?
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Ahab is a metaphor for mans attempt to dominate nature.
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In Moby Dick there's a chapter where they go see a church service specifically for whalers that because they're usually at sea most of them can only go to once a year when they're back in Nantucket. The preacher is a former whaler comes out and gives his sermon on... Jonah and the whale. Does it ever loving stop with the whales for these guys.
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Dec 22, 2019 17:55
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Slam whale Ahab fail
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I'm a literal preacher and I've only read one book of the Bible. Luckily its the one with whales so its the only one that matters
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The cetacean chapters could have benefited from more Ahab.
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