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Offline ka9q

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Re: You Want to Talk Grasping at Straws?
« Reply #15 on: March 11, 2015, 04:04:30 AM »
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Re: You Want to Talk Grasping at Straws?
« Reply #16 on: March 11, 2015, 05:22:51 AM »
Yep, in the world of the conspiracy theorist nothing is real, everything is conjured up purely for their benefit - the entire world's media and political elite are manufacturing things left right and centre just to make them fooled - damn how lucky we are that these guys are keeping their eyes open for us.

That's how egocentric and narcissistic these people are.

On the naming front, we have a guy at work whose surname is Jones. His parents saw fit to name him Tom. It's not unusual. Oh he never tires of that line...
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Re: You Want to Talk Grasping at Straws?
« Reply #17 on: March 11, 2015, 05:34:47 AM »

True story.

We had a Mr Sherunkle in our company once. His parents named him Robert. Ladies and gentlemen, it's my pleasure to introduce you to Mr. Bob Sherunkle.  ;D ;D
We also have a Ken Kong too, and a Steven Wankoff  :o :o

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Re: You Want to Talk Grasping at Straws?
« Reply #18 on: March 11, 2015, 06:44:08 AM »
Quote from: Zakalwe on March 11, 2015, 05:34:47 AM

True story.

We had a Mr Sherunkle in our company once. His parents named him Robert. Ladies and gentlemen, it's my pleasure to introduce you to Mr. Bob Sherunkle.  ;D ;D
We also have a Ken Kong too, and a Steven Wankoff  :o :o



As a Brit, I find that last one particularly amusing. Though, to be honest, the Wankel Rotary Engine was a source of endless hilarity with me and my peers when I was a kid.
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Re: You Want to Talk Grasping at Straws?
« Reply #19 on: March 11, 2015, 07:26:51 AM »
Quote from: darren r on March 11, 2015, 06:44:08 AM
As a Brit, I find that last one particularly amusing. Though, to be honest, the Wankel Rotary Engine was a source of endless hilarity with me and my peers when I was a kid.

Totally juvenile humour, but still worth a giggle.  ;)
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Re: You Want to Talk Grasping at Straws?
« Reply #20 on: March 11, 2015, 07:47:20 AM »
Quote from: darren r on March 11, 2015, 06:44:08 AM

As a Brit, I find that last one particularly amusing. Though, to be honest, the Wankel Rotary Engine was a source of endless hilarity with me and my peers when I was a kid.

The simple pleasures of youth.
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Re: You Want to Talk Grasping at Straws?
« Reply #21 on: March 11, 2015, 12:36:08 PM »
And I mean, doesn't literally everyone have stories of having met someone with an unusual punning name?  Yet if something important involves one of them, clearly, that's proof of a hoax of some kind.
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Re: You Want to Talk Grasping at Straws?
« Reply #22 on: March 11, 2015, 01:28:21 PM »
Quote from: gillianren on March 11, 2015, 12:36:08 PM
And I mean, doesn't literally everyone have stories of having met someone with an unusual punning name?  Yet if something important involves one of them, clearly, that's proof of a hoax of some kind.
Absolutely
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Re: You Want to Talk Grasping at Straws?
« Reply #23 on: March 11, 2015, 06:15:03 PM »
Quote from: Zakalwe on March 11, 2015, 05:34:47 AM
Many a spare moment was whiled away by searching our company directory of 100,000 employees for the weird and wonderful.

We had a Richard Head. I kid you not.
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Re: You Want to Talk Grasping at Straws?
« Reply #24 on: March 11, 2015, 07:16:04 PM »
Quote from: Luke Pemberton on March 11, 2015, 06:15:03 PM
Quote from: Zakalwe on March 11, 2015, 05:34:47 AM
Many a spare moment was whiled away by searching our company directory of 100,000 employees for the weird and wonderful.

We had a Richard Head. I kid you not.

When I was at Pilot Training School, we used to have a get together every few months, pilot instructors, tech staff, admin staff along with wives & girlfriends. We had a particular pilot whose name was John Dick, and on one occasion, he brought his pregnant wife along to one of these shindigs. Eventually, as it happens, the subject of baby names came up. When John's wife said that if it was a boy, she wanted to call him "Shaun", we techs felt duty bound to gently inform her that this was not a good choice...
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Re: You Want to Talk Grasping at Straws?
« Reply #25 on: March 11, 2015, 11:59:58 PM »
Ok, I'm missing something.  If it's obscene or vulgar, you can PM me.
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Re: You Want to Talk Grasping at Straws?
« Reply #26 on: March 12, 2015, 10:30:11 AM »
One of the grand dames of Houston was named Ima Hogg.  She eschewed her last name and was known to everyone from the housekeeper, to the mayor, to the Governor and various Presidential cabinet members as Miss Ima.  She made several important contributions to Houston, particularly to parks,  and was alive when I was a kid.  So we used to have juvenile fun with her name.
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Re: You Want to Talk Grasping at Straws?
« Reply #27 on: March 12, 2015, 02:21:41 PM »
Quote from: Sus_pilot on March 11, 2015, 11:59:58 PM
Ok, I'm missing something.  If it's obscene or vulgar, you can PM me.

Shaun Dick the famous Brazilian? (shaun is pronounced the same way as "shorn")
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Re: You Want to Talk Grasping at Straws?
« Reply #28 on: March 12, 2015, 10:25:20 PM »
When I was in High School, there I knew a guy whose name was Richard Balhs. One teacher, always called him Dick. Richard had an uncle named Harold. Presently I know a Brad Assman, it's pronounced "Auusman," or so they say.

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Re: You Want to Talk Grasping at Straws?
« Reply #29 on: March 13, 2015, 11:49:03 AM »
Quote from: smartcooky on March 12, 2015, 02:21:41 PM
Shaun Dick the famous Brazilian? (shaun is pronounced the same way as "shorn")

Depending on your accent.  I didn't get it, either, because it's pronounced more like "shawn" here.
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