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The Velveteen Ocelot

(115,661 posts)
1. It would be kind of like being named Joe Ebola
Thu Aug 6, 2020, 05:19 PM
Aug 2020

or Jane Influenza or Sid Syphilis.

Having the first name of Karen as well is a bit of a double whammy, though.

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(52,183 posts)
3. I actually know someone named James Bond.
Thu Aug 6, 2020, 05:38 PM
Aug 2020

He works on Wall Street, no less, although not on the debt side....

Harker

(14,010 posts)
7. You might find this of interest.
Thu Aug 6, 2020, 06:18 PM
Aug 2020

From ornithologist to secret agent. I used to work in bookshops and got curious.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Bond_(ornithologist)

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(52,183 posts)
9. Cool! I did not know he took the name entirely from a real person!
Thu Aug 6, 2020, 06:55 PM
Aug 2020

And interesting that he thought it the dullest name ever, because of course no one thinks that now!

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(52,183 posts)
11. Well they say a great actor can make the phone book sound interesting....
Thu Aug 6, 2020, 07:09 PM
Aug 2020

I know, I know. "What's a phone book?"

Buckeye_Democrat

(14,853 posts)
12. My brother went to school with a kid named Harry Hole.
Thu Aug 6, 2020, 07:11 PM
Aug 2020

Another one was named Billy Beaver, and he indeed had a "beaver" later in life... showed up at a HS reunion after a sex change operation.

rurallib

(62,406 posts)
15. Iowa girls high school all stater back in the early 60s
Thu Aug 6, 2020, 09:00 PM
Aug 2020

Fonda Dicks

(I am old enough to have watched her play in the state tournament)

NNadir

(33,512 posts)
16. My real name has been generating comments for my entire life.
Thu Aug 6, 2020, 09:08 PM
Aug 2020

Everyone pretty much says the same thing, and there are actually people who act as if I haven't heard that same thing year after year after year, as if they are being witty and saying something new to me.

I used to get a little pissed off by it, but now I just smile and pretend to laugh.

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