Posted on 07/07/2007 10:00:28 AM PDT by atomic_dog
Thank you. I did find it funny “ha-ha,” not funny “queer.”
If my parents named me “Darius Guppy” I’d run away from home.
I have a book I keep stupid names in; that’s a keeper.
Who’s got a huge dispenser?
I dunno, but what’s a henway?
Hopefully they hanged him a good long time before they drew and quartered him.
Wonderful collection of documented nutty names, including Eucalyptus Yoho, Garnish Lurch, Crystal Shanda Lear, etc. etc.
I found an obit in a NE GA paper for a fellow named Numerous Odorous Marcus; I clipped it and stuck it in the front of the book.
It also has overtones of decadence and the idle rich -- iow there has to be an element of slumming aristocracy in it, I think. You never hear it applied, for example, to 'working girls' . . . . unless she has a title.
Ah, yes - I believe this gentleman was the principal character in the only news story ever posted on FR containing the phrase “bucket of dildos.” At least I believe that to be the case. I’d do a search to be certain but I’m afraid of what I’d find.
No, I wouldn’t go there. Even with “safe search”.
I’d say he has to be a Kennedy
Of course, this one would have fit right into Kaiser Wilhelm’s Garde du Corps.
I’ll get a copy of that book, for sure.
“Numerous Odorous” is kind of sad, in a way - ignorant folks trying to sound important.
I encountered a lady whose name was “Alpha Omega [Last Name]”. A name like that covers it all, doesn’t it?
Well, he was from the extremely rural NE corner of GA, so I can’t blame his folks. They probably thought it sounded Biblical or just liked the rhyme. IIRC, he must have been born some time around the turn of the century, because I saw the clipping 5-10 years back and the late lamented was in his late 80s.
One of my ancestors got the same treatment under Charles II.
If you want to know all about Piers Gaveston, read Christopher Marlowe’s play about Edward II.
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