Nominative Determinism

[Pixie]

Nominative Determinism is when a person has a name that is,strangely,related to the job they are doing.
As in doctors with the name Death etc.
The best and most exotic I have seen so far is a polar bear research scientist who is named Bryndis Snaebjornsdottir.
Snaebjornsdottir means Snow Bear's Daughter in Icelandic.

[Steam]

Ah! A term coined by my favourite magazine in the whole universe, New Scientist.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nominative_determinism

http://homepage.mac.com/chapmandave/aptonyms/index2.html

[sels1]

Our local dog ranger is a Mr Wolff...and his brother works for the SPCA in Wgtn

[janno]

Mr Pipe the Plumber, first name Dwayne.:yes:

[Pixie]

There is a Barrister/solicitor in Lincoln Rd,Henderson named Jury.
He may eventually become a Judge, and if we bring back capital punishment,he can sideline as an executioner.
Judge Jury and Executioner.Ta Da!

[Pixie]

Kevin De Cock, director of HIV/AIDS at the World Health Organisation

[skelstar]

Jsu worked with a Mr Green, who is the Green Mill Manager at a timber mill :yes:

[Drum]

When I was a lad in Nelson we used to chuckle at the sign outside Dr Candy's practice. He was a dentist!

[Goblin]

Back in the day when milk was delivered to your door, our milkman's name was David Curd.
My cousin applied for a job in a photographic shop, the owners were Mr & Mrs Flashov.

[yungatart]

Mr Pipe the Plumber, first name Dwayne.:yes:

Nah, tis Jim Pipe, the plumber. His son's name is Dwayne.

[Albino]

John Littlewood the pediatrician.

[WarlockNZ]

Kevin De Cock, director of HIV/AIDS at the World Health Organisation



HA HA HA ... that's brilliant

[Bass]

The world famous accounting firm of......
Fleecem and Scarper

Or the Samoan unemployment beneficiary by the name of Fatulogalofa.
(Samoa has an implied "N" - log is pronounced long)

Perhaps the Tongan "good time girl" - Soisitule

Maybe a constipated arab....... Mustapha Krap

But if you want real people, then I knew a Samoan lady once whose christian name was Nooke. No prizes for guessing how it was mispronounced.

I also knew a family by the name of Mallow who had the cruelty to name their (a bit overweight) daughters, Marsha and Carrie

[SARGE]

true story..

i went to High School with a girl named Cora Apple.. her father ran an orchard

her best mate was named Ann Teek... thats right .. she now owns a furniture and homewares store in Cincinnati..

all hung around a guy named ...


Michael Michael Michael


he is an acoustic engineer.. ( echo...echo...echo...)

[James Deuce]

Major Major Major from Catch 22 who was promoted straight from Private to........

That's right, Major.

[Beemer]

I write advertising copy sometimes and I should really use my married name for it - Faye King!

[marty]

I went to school with Wayne Kerr. Just looked him up on Oldfriends - there's 8 of them on there!

[Hitcher]

An undertaker called Phillip Graves.

An ornithologist called Tui Bird.

An animal nutritionalist called Pauline Lamb.

A Filipino cleric called Cardinal Sin.

[xwhatsit]

Major Major Major from Catch 22 who was promoted straight from Private to........

That's right, Major.



No rep for you, too much in last 24 hours.

Just re-read that book recently; most of the names in that book are wordplay. There's Snowden, who dies feeling `I'm cold, so cold'.

Colonel Scheisskopf, who is indeed a shithead.

Orr, who paddles his way with an oar to freedom. From some brief googling, apparently Orr is Swedish for a type of goose, which is known for playing the fool -- something which Orr does in order to trick people into thinking he's crazy.

Of course these aren't really Nominative Determinisms, but interesting nonetheless.

[bungbung]

Major Sergeant was visiting NZ a few months ago

[terbang]

Googled this:

Dr. Feeley practices Obstetrics & Gynecology in Saint Johns, Michigan.

[Pixie]

I went to school with Wayne Kerr. Just looked him up on Oldfriends - there's 8 of them on there!

Stick to the topic folks.
It is only nominative determinism if Wayne Kerr is sperm donor, politician or an all black etc

[Goblin]

There used to be a doctor at Rotorua hospital, Dr Hacket.

[sidecar bob]

I remember an Auckland cafe owner on TV news a few months back complaining about smelly bicycle riders frequenting his cafe.
His name was Mustafa Cokchu, laughed my ass off, poor cunt.

[Beemer]

My brother used to be a patient of Dr Payne, the dentist!

And wasn't it Martin Gosling who used to work for the Civil Aviation Authority?

[timk]

My town has a surgeon named Dr. Slaughter.

[Macktheknife]

Once a senior officer in NZ Army medical corp; Major Paine.
Also in Army at the time, Rea, G. rank Gunner.
And a man who worked in Middlemore Hospital morgue, Dr J. Dearth.

[Grub]

Some more ...
- A paper on incontinence in the British Journal of Urology was authored by J.W. Splatt and D. Weedon!
- The head of planning for British Airways is Rod Muddle
- Frances Crook is the director of the Howard League for Penal Reform
- S.M. Breedlove writes on sexual dimorphism for the Journal of Neuroscience
- The US Heritage Foundation's senior researcher on children in foster care is Patrick Fagan

[Brian d marge]

Used to know a motorcycle racer called Juan fast focker

Stephen

[Mystery]

Had a tenant once called Mike Hunt, it suited him!

When I was a kid I lived in a small predominently sheep farming community and a family moved into town with the surname Ramsbottom :gob: and for some strange reason they changed it to Stevens :rofl:

[deanohit]

Used to go to school with a kid called Ben Dover, went on to become a doctor but not mine thank god!!