Thomas Crapper - Inventor of the toilet U-bend and ballcock
Nominative determinism strikes again:
> Tuesday was Tag des Deutschen Brotes, or German National Bread Day. (Unclear how this is different than every day.) Berlin appointed a new Bread Ambassador — ironically named Katarina Barley
😆 via Berlin HEIST newsletter
I’m reading a non-fic book by a LGBT+ researcher and his surname is Grindrod, and I am trying to be SO MATURE about this.
Scriptorium seems to have an oddly family concept in it... sorry sorry familiar
And in a delightful instance of nominative determinism:
"...the simple act of wearing a hat was a complex, high-stakes game of social and political signaling. Bernard Capp, Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Warwick..."
has anyone surveyed how many
are named
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MathiasTCK.bsky.social
khannie
smeg
Andrew France
Wendy Palmer
Peter Coles 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️ 🇮🇪
Charnock
klu9
Droppie [AU] 🐨♀🌈🐧🦘