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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsThe Velveteen Ocelot
(115,661 posts)or Jane Influenza or Sid Syphilis.
Having the first name of Karen as well is a bit of a double whammy, though.
Yavin4
(35,432 posts)He said, "tell me about it".
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(52,183 posts)He works on Wall Street, no less, although not on the debt side....
Harker
(14,010 posts)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)And interesting that he thought it the dullest name ever, because of course no one thinks that now!
Harker
(14,010 posts)has no ring to it at all.
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(52,183 posts)I know, I know. "What's a phone book?"
stonecutter357
(12,695 posts)sarcasmo
(23,968 posts)PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)LakeArenal
(28,813 posts)Buckeye_Democrat
(14,853 posts)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.
Wolf Frankula
(3,600 posts)I once met a cab driver named Phuc Yieu.
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Midnight Writer
(21,738 posts)rurallib
(62,406 posts)Fonda Dicks
(I am old enough to have watched her play in the state tournament)
NNadir
(33,512 posts)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.
JustGene
(421 posts)Neighborhood MD. growing up, Dr. Bonebrake