Author Topic: More nominative determinism (Read 58013 times)

Guy · « **Reply #250 on:** September 14, 2017, 01:45:46 pm »

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A compensation claimant named Mr Crook has been handed a £4,600 legal bill after a court ruled he had made a bogus personal injury claim.

Alan Crook, from Leeds, lied about neck and shoulder injuries that were allegedly sustained when a First West Yorkshire bus clipped a stationary car.

http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/rumbled-leeds-man-ordered-to-pay-thousands-to-first-bus-after-cctv-shows-how-he-lied-about-crash-injuries-1-8752188

hellymedic · « **Reply #251 on:** October 29, 2017, 12:14:48 am »

Woman named Robb stole dinner money from school.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-41775287

Ham · « **Reply #252 on:** January 02, 2018, 06:22:27 pm »

Duke Ellington's first piano teacher was Maria Clinkscales.

Beardy · « **Reply #253 on:** January 02, 2018, 07:00:25 pm »

Just found this thread so il” add mine

The Rent'o'kill operative that had attended to our first house prior to our moving in was a Mr Peter Grubb. He actually lived next door to my parents.

And when I was a striplling, I was in the AFC and within our area we had two detachment leaders who were brothers, Lieutenant Key, and 2nd Lieutenant Key. They were both in the same profession, and members of there trade organisation that of the Master Locksmiths Association. I bet you guessed that didn’t you.

Diver300 · « **Reply #254 on:** January 14, 2018, 08:59:02 pm »

Dr. Alter, the plastic surgeon.... http://www.altermd.com/

Legs · « **Reply #255 on:** January 17, 2018, 12:03:51 pm »

Tennys Sandgren, the tennis player from Tennessee...

LEE · « **Reply #256 on:** January 17, 2018, 01:00:56 pm »

Gary Oldman

rogerzilla · « **Reply #257 on:** January 17, 2018, 06:14:06 pm »

Quote from: LEE on January 17, 2018, 01:00:56 pm

Gary Oldman

Oddly, he's the same age as Gary Numan.

rafletcher · « **Reply #258 on:** March 16, 2018, 05:17:57 pm »

A letter in the Graun today, from County Down. From one Keith Bomber....

hellymedic · « **Reply #259 on:** March 23, 2018, 07:46:08 pm »

Head teacher named Snow arranges Staff v Pupils snowball fight.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/43225661/pupils-versus-teachers-snowball-fight

hellymedic · « **Reply #260 on:** April 03, 2018, 02:16:30 pm »

Norther Line engineering work has been behind schedule.

LEE · « **Reply #261 on:** April 03, 2018, 02:26:07 pm »

Piers Twatty Morgan

(possibly repetition)

Torslanda · « **Reply #262 on:** April 03, 2018, 03:11:27 pm »

You mean Piers 'The Colossal Bell End' Morgan, who is a colossal bell end . . . ?

Giraffe · « **Reply #263 on:** April 04, 2018, 09:28:24 am »

That proggy - Piers Morgan's Deadly Women (?) was one not to watch. As it had more than one episode - and the first episode lasted more than five minutes - it was obviously a (not) dead failure.
When I first saw it in the EPG there was JOY, but

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #264 on:** April 04, 2018, 10:33:10 am »

Russell Brain, neurologist.

hellymedic · « **Reply #265 on:** April 04, 2018, 01:22:01 pm »

Collaborated with Bannister, who left us rather more recently.

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #266 on:** April 04, 2018, 01:33:18 pm »

Also had Ivor Gurney as a patient.

Ham · « **Reply #267 on:** April 12, 2018, 02:18:50 pm »

From https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/apr/12/national-enquirer-tabloid-trump-doorman-affair-rumor

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The company said that AMI’s publisher, David Pecker, an unabashed Trump supporter....

Legs · « **Reply #268 on:** April 15, 2018, 04:59:45 pm »

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-43774595

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #269 on:** April 16, 2018, 10:57:32 pm »

Do we have a thread for nominative anti-determinism?
https://twitter.com/JamesCleverly/status/984361869778538496

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And remember, kids, when it comes to elections Labour think you’re an adult at 16, when it comes to bus travel you’re not an adult until 25.

Pingu · « **Reply #270 on:** April 21, 2018, 08:08:47 pm »

On C4 News: Sally Knocker who works for Opening Doors London.

Ian H · « **Reply #271 on:** May 24, 2018, 06:31:54 pm »

Board the carpenter.

Pingu · « **Reply #272 on:** May 26, 2018, 09:14:57 pm »

There's a Toni Coppers in the credits of the Belgian police drama Rough Justice.

Pingu · « **Reply #273 on:** June 15, 2018, 08:59:11 pm »

Quote from: Pingu on May 26, 2018, 09:14:57 pm

There's a Toni Coppers in the credits of the Belgian police drama Rough Justice.

Ah, he wrote the books it's based on.

citoyen · « **Reply #274 on:** August 10, 2018, 03:36:54 pm »

I see that Chelsea's expensive new shot-stopper is called Kepa...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kepa_Arrizabalaga