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Post by jenny on Aug 15, 2024 15:48:37 GMT
Stolen from today's Popbitch email - Nominative Determinism Of The Week: Ms I Testi, an ocular consultant at Moorfields Eye Hospital
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Post by Bondee on Aug 15, 2024 20:15:01 GMT
She sounds like a right bollock!
I may have mentioned this place on the old forum, but I often passed it on the bus on the way to work and wondered if the proprietor ever considered retraining as an optician*.
There's a branch of SpecSavers two doors to the right.
*Unlikely, seeing as it was esablished in 1768, but you've got to have something to keep your mind occupied on your way to a job you fucking hate!
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Post by amanda on Aug 15, 2024 22:13:32 GMT
40 years ago in my childhood medical clinic was a Dr Better, and in the same suburb but another clinic, a Dr Best.
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Post by tetsabb on Aug 16, 2024 9:27:12 GMT
I still find it hilarious that one of the people behind the Knepp estate rewilding project is Isabella Tree.
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Post by jenny on Aug 16, 2024 19:13:18 GMT
My dentist is called Dr Best - makes me have a lot of confidence in her.
I probably mentioned this in the old forums, but when I was young in Hull there was a funeral director called Boddy.
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Post by amanda on Aug 16, 2024 23:26:45 GMT
There's a urologist in my childhood suburb with the surname Moon.
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Post by Bondee on Aug 17, 2024 9:40:30 GMT
There's a urologist in my childhood suburb with the surname Moon.
That one would be more suitable for a proctologist.
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Post by RLDavies on Aug 21, 2024 16:55:22 GMT
From yesterday's Telegraph:
THE MOON IS NOT THE COLOUR YOU THINK IT IS
The Moon is not only grey, but has shades of red and blue
by science correspondent Joe Pinkstone
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Post by amanda on Aug 22, 2024 10:47:39 GMT
There's an Aussie tv news reporter named Amy Parks who did a report on a game from the stadium named AAMI* Park in Melbourne.
* An acronym for an insurance company. Pronounced as the girl's name.
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Post by amanda on Aug 30, 2024 9:41:24 GMT
Watching the Gardening Australia tv show and a volunteer in a country town has the surname Grew - and the team is helping to re-do her garden after flood damage.
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Post by jenny on Aug 30, 2024 18:14:11 GMT
Monty Don, well known to English gardeners, has done an "American garden" series on Acorn (or BritBox - I forget which). The first episode claimed to be about the north-east, but in fact went no further north than New York city, which pissed us off a bit. No nominative determinism here but Amanda's post made me think of it.
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Post by tetsabb on Sept 5, 2024 19:06:24 GMT
BBC reporter on an item about tge scandal of our waterways and their pollution has the surname 'Fisher'.
Seems kinda apt
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Post by Bondee on Sept 6, 2024 11:59:56 GMT
This one's not quite nominative determinism.
A report on the local news website...
...written by Victoria Shipp.
I guess all their smaller reporters were busy.
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Post by pinklady on Sept 13, 2024 21:28:32 GMT
From my membership magazine I learned today that the Chief Exec of the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust is a Sarah Fowler.
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Post by Dix on Sept 15, 2024 19:17:23 GMT
Today's bbc news broadcast featured a reportge from the middle Europe floods. The on-the-spot reporter was a Ms. Rainsford
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Post by tetsabb on Sept 16, 2024 14:04:18 GMT
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