11 hours in and no Usain Bolt???
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Had a religious studies teach called Mrs Holyland
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Lots of nominative determinism in this thread.
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Edit: apparently he's a computer technician and that's even better somehow.
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I work in dairy company, once I was checking SAP for something and saw a name-surname "Olgun Erkek" (Mature Male in Turkish). We are receiving his raw milk, it is like porn name when you picture it like that.
A lot of fictional and probably actors/actress names are gonna hit this mark.
irl people are harder to find like: Usain Bolt, Lucifer of Cagliari and maybe~ Rick Santorum.
Or there's that guy... Charles Dickinson. Maybe his name is objective too~
Rick Santorum
Not sure if serious...
(Maybe thats the joke)
e: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campaign_for_the_neologism_%22santorum%22
And I just learned Dan Savage also coined the term "pegging". Maybe Dan Savage should change his name to "Damn! Savage."
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I used to work in a call center and had a notably irate customer named Mrs. Bitschy. I tried pronouncing it like "Beeshy", and she immediately snapped "It's Bitchy! Got a problem with that!?" Oof.
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My japanese pilot was named Toga.
If my pilots name was Max Power we could be flying upside down and I'd still trust him.
I bet he got it from the hair dryer.
It's the name you love to say.
gestures vaguely at Hideo Kojima's games.
In just death stranding, you've got Deadman, Heartman, Diehardman, Mama, Sam Porter Bridges, Fucking ameLIE, AKA Samantha America Strand... fuck
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I used to work in a call center and once took a call from a guy named Jacob J. Justice. Guy should've been a Marvel superhero.
I went to college with a girl whose dad was a firefighter captain with the last name Justice. They actually did make a comic about him because he was a Captain of the firefighters.
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Also a truly dumbfounding amount of girls named things like princess and diamond.
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This is gonna sound fake, but I knew a butcher named Butch Pig. He was Butch before he was a butcher
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There's a name for that; nominative determinism
I had to look up so.e examples using that, some of these are great!https://icon.ink/articles/nominative-determinism-examples-jobs/
Like Yo-Yo Ma, who goes back and forth on strings.
There was a racing driver named Scott Speed. Unfortunately he's got no speed.
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