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2 hours ago, Forty Rod SASS 3935 said:
I had a friend in high school whose name was Jae (Yeah, with an "e:") Leroy Walker. His dad was a Colonel in the USU ROTC. His name was J. Leroy Walker, no first name.
I realize this was the TV show, but
In the early part of MASH, Hawkeye's best friend was Trapper. Then that actor wanted to leave so Trapper went home, and they brought Hawkeye a new best friend - BJ. In one episode Hawkeye is determined to find out what BJ stood for. Finally he finds out that it doesn't stand for anything - it is simply the initials BJ.
Now Hawkeye is extremely frustrated - what kind of parents would name their child BJ????
And BJ explains - "Bea Hunnicutt, and her husband Jay Hunnicutt".
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You know, you have the body of the muffin, inside the paper wrapper, down in the cups of the muffin tin. And then the top of the muffin is the piece that is raised up and overflowed the paper and the cups.
I saw this video one time where the girl was at a dessert table, buffet table, something. And she had several muffins, and she only ate the tops. Leaving the piece inside the paper just sitting on the table to be thrown out with trash. Someone noticed and asked why, and she explained that the top was the best part.
Some months later she is out and about and finds this new business. Being run by the guy that she had been talking to. And all he was selling was muffin tops.
She was bent, because it was her idea and she wasn't getting any money out of it. But that's part of the television script. I don't care.
I just saw that and wondered if it would be possible just to make the tops. And if so, how?
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In one of Mickey Spillane's books - I think it was The Erection Set, but I wouldn't swear to it - there's an old mansion known as Shinola.
Back in the twenties this shoe shine boy would listen to people talk while he was shining their shoes, and use that information to invest in the stock market. Became rich, bought a huge estate, had a mansion buil on it, named it shinola. Because he was a shoe shine boy.
Then came the crash.
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My Daddy's youngest sister married a man named R H. Didn't have no name, just initials, and like Jonly up there, they didn't stand for anything. Name was R H.
Went by his middle name. We called him Uncle H.
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58 minutes ago, Sgt. C.J. Sabre, SASS #46770 said:
Henry Cho had a friend named JB.
"Why do we hang out?"
Lemme s'plain it to you Henry.
When you got a IQ of 90, and your buddy Jonly has an IQ of 65, it makes you look smart.
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This is from a book of short stories about The Addams family. They are in school.
>Will you read the first poem aloud, Winifred?" she said, directly addressing Wednesday Addams. Like most teachers who staunchly refuse to recognize the right of a parent to decide upon the name of an off spring, rigidly calling each Jack "John," each Beth "E-lizz-a-beth," and each Ned "Ed-warrrd" (never even considering possibilities such as "Edgar," "Ed mund," or "Edwin"), Miss Glimmer insisted, "Wednesday is not a proper name," although she still ticked off points from students who failed to capitalize that very word because "the days of the weeks are proper names."
Pugsley, in a rare defense of his sister, had raised his hand and queried, "How come if it's a proper name you keep telling Wednesday it isn't a proper name?" He was answered with the accusation that he was "being impertinent" and Miss Glimmer sent him home after school with a note stating that in her opinion Pugsley Addams was "rude, ill-mannered, and socially undisciplined in the extreme!" (On reception of the note, Morticia wept with joyous pride, and Gomez nearly burst the buttons of his coat with breast swelling happiness.)
The odd thing was that Miss Glimmer called Pugsley "Pugsley." She found herself stymied to divine precisely what his name should have been, so simply left it alone.<
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37 minutes ago, Trailrider #896 said:
Interestingly, many Southern families use the diminutive spelling for certain names
I know this man. His name is Ronnie. Says so on his birth certificate. I also know his mother. She told me that she did not like nicknames, and she figured if she named him Ronald people would call him Ronnie so she went ahead and named him Ronnie.
When he graduated high school and joined the Navy, he decided his name was Ron.
His little brother was named after his father - John Jr. They called him Jay. So I guess that "I don't like nicknames" thing only lasted about 4 years.
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I received something in Yahoo news the other day. Said a fighter plane had gone down, and ONE OF THE PILOTS had been rescued.
One of the pilots? I thought fighter planes only had one pilot. They got a GIBS, but he's not a pilot. One of the pilots.
Got to love the people that claim to be journalists.
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I liked the third one, at about 10 or 11 seconds. I think it was a motorcycle. It went up the ramp and flew through the air and slammed into a parked car and put a big dent in it, and the guy laughed.
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2 hours ago, Alpo said:
and then fumbling all over herself trying to make that better
Back before I was born, white people were considered better than any other color people. And this was reflected in many turns of phrase.
If you did something nice for somebody, without being asked, they quite frequently would say, "That's mighty white of you".
I believe this was 1967. The schools had just been integrated. And we had one black student in the junior high school band.
The director, to get the attention of the orchestra, is supposed to tap on the stand with his baton - tick tick tick. Our band director had a small ball peen hammer, and occasionally, to get our attention, he would hold the head of the hammer in his hand and bang on the stand with the hammer handle - Bam Bam Bam!
So one day the class is being a bit rowdy, and he picks up his hammer and Bam Bam Bam!! Class pretty much quieted down and looked at him, and he says, "none of y'all know how to act like white people!", and then he noticed that black face in the front row. Flutes. They're always in the front row.
That's okay - I can fix this. "Except for Susie there!"
Yeah, that made it better.
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When I was growing up, that's what it was called. There was your surname and then your Christian name. Or your family name and your Christian name.
Joe just used the term "given name" in another thread, which is undoubtedly a better choice.
I don't remember whether this was a movie or a television show but I recall seeing a nun asking a Jewish kid what his Christian name was, and then fumbling all over herself trying to make that better.
"Goldberg. And what's your Christian name? Uh, uh, I mean, uh..."
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7 hours ago, Subdeacon Joe said:
Irritating is the use of occupational surnames as given names.
Huh? You mean like, Baker?
That's the only occupational surname I can think of at the moment, and I can't conceive of somebody naming their child Baker.
Although we have that nice young man in Catch 22 named Major Major Major.
Added: and of course, after I sumit my post, Smith immediately springs to mind. Definitely an occupational surname. Can't imagine anybody naming their kid Smith, either.
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You best hush talking about 'shrooms. There's folks around here that's gonna start thinkin' you're my supplier.
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Watching Bones. Parker - Booth's kid from a previous girlfriend - has just returned from England where for some unexplained reason he's been for about a year, since he missed the entire pregnancy and Christine is 3 months old.
At the end of the episode he has made a mobile and it's hung over the crib and they put the baby in the crib and the baby is laughing.
How do they make a baby laugh on cue?
wrong gender nickname
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And THAT, friends and neighbors, is why you read the entire thread before you make a post.
You may find out that someone has already posted what you were just about to. 😭