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Nominative Determinism

  • 16-04-2012 02:56AM
    #1
    smokedeels
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,883 ✭✭✭


    Does anyone here have a name that references their profession?


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  • #2
    IM0
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,390 ✭✭✭IM0


    ben dover - male prostitute


  • #3
    Jess16
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,176 ✭✭✭Jess16


    I actually had a teacher called Mr Chawke and we had a postman years ago called Andy Stamp :)


  • #4
    Mickey H
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,822 ✭✭✭Mickey H


    Had a Caucasian male teaching me Honours English in Leaving Cert.

    His name was Mr. White.


  • #5
    TheChizler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,568 ✭✭✭TheChizler


    I know a Wheelan who's in a wheelchair. He laughs at it himself.


  • #6
    Chuck Stone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,029 ✭✭✭✭Chuck Stone


    Had a teacher who was a real bastard in secondary school.

    His name?
    Mr. BASTARD.


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  • #7
    fasttalkerchat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,652 ✭✭✭fasttalkerchat


    I know a Mr. Job.
    It's ironic now but we had laughs before the recession.


  • #8
    IM0
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,390 ✭✭✭IM0


    dick pound - pornstar


  • #9
    fasttalkerchat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,652 ✭✭✭fasttalkerchat


    This book actually exists:
    Pole Positions - The Polar Regions and the Future of the Planet, by Daniel Snowman.


  • #10
    Pherekydes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 16,339 ✭✭✭✭Pherekydes


    Ms English taught us English (and Irish). Mr Power taught us Physics.


  • #11
    LH Pathe
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,515 ✭✭✭LH Pathe


    I'm gerry armstrong and my job was to stick it in the pan net. Ah'll tell ya they do things different down there..


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  • #12
    bob the bob
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 179 ✭✭bob the bob


    DJ "insert DJ name" - became a DJ


  • #13
    galwayrush
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,816 ✭✭✭✭galwayrush


    I don't.


  • #14
    the groutch
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,096 ✭✭✭✭the groutch


    Ben Dunne - Gym Owner


  • #15
    fasttalkerchat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,652 ✭✭✭fasttalkerchat


    the groutch wrote: »
    Ben Dunne - Gym Owner
    eh?


  • #16
    frag420
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,161 ✭✭✭frag420


    Ulick McGee - Gynecologist


  • #17
    44leto
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,137 ✭✭✭44leto


    I know a Sparrow who is a pilot.

    But I know a Smyth who is not a Smyth.


  • #18
    44leto
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,137 ✭✭✭44leto


    I know a P Ennis who is a prick.


  • #19
    marty1985
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 788 ✭✭✭marty1985


    Robbie Fowler, and er, Amy Winehouse.


  • #20
    44leto
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,137 ✭✭✭44leto


    A lot of porn star have nominative deterministic names, coincidence I don't think so.


  • #21
    DB21
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,715 ✭✭✭DB21


    44leto wrote: »
    A lot of porn star have nominative deterministic names, coincidence I don't think so.

    tumblr_m2dy5iUEl61qcsjbg.jpg


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  • #22
    AnonoBoy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,559 ✭✭✭✭AnonoBoy


    My name is Arnold Pathy and I find it hard to care about things. Does that work?











    (That's A.Pathy for those of you in the cheap seats!)


  • #23
    watna
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,367 ✭✭✭✭watna


    I work with a woman named Joy and it's a terrible name for her to have - she's the most miserable, whinging, bitching, joyless person I have ever met.

    She asked me once if my parents were impressed when they visitied New Zealand. As the conversation whent on it became clear that she was under the impression that Irish people all lived in thatched cottages with pigs in the parlour. I laughed my ass off at that one.


  • #24
    davet82
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,753 ✭✭✭davet82


    I know a Joxer Brown... guess what color his trousers are ;)


  • #25
    problemchimp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,025 ✭✭✭problemchimp


    I knew a girl called Fannie Cox years ago, nothing to do with her job, just a funny name.


  • #26
    Pherekydes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 16,339 ✭✭✭✭Pherekydes


    44leto wrote: »
    I know a Sparrow who is a pilot.

    And a Swan, and a Pigeon (though I'm not sure his name is spelled that way).

    Agree about the P Ennis chap, too. :eek:


  • #27
    forfuxsake
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 829 ✭✭✭forfuxsake


    44leto wrote: »
    I know a P Ennis who is a prick.

    not phillip?


  • #28
    My name is URL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,626 ✭✭✭✭My name is URL


    There's a Neurologist in Melbourne called Dr. J. Treat Paine

    True story.. I saw him interviewed on telly once. Not sure if he recommends marijuana to patients but he should do it for the trifecta


  • #29
    i71jskz5xu42pb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,806 ✭✭✭i71jskz5xu42pb


    This fella


  • #30
    Big Nasty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,066 ✭✭✭✭Big Nasty


    bob the bob wrote: »
    DJ "insert DJ name" - became a DJ

    I think you'll find he was a hurler! :pac:

    Two friends of ours got married, his surname is Boat and hers Power. She calls herself Power-Boat, we call her Motorboat! :D


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  • #31
    RayM
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,973 ✭✭✭RayM


    Scott Speed - former F1 driver. Sacked because he never quite lived up to his name.


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