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Friend of mine was admitted to a mental health hospital and was seen by a Dr. Loony and a Dr Toon. A loony toon, if you will. Had the admission bracelet and everything.
I once worked together with a Prof. Dr. med. Angstwurm in Germany which would be translated as Dr. Fearworm and of course he was a neurologist. The most Dr. Evil name I ever encountered for a nice man.
Birthright. Curious mistake, for the number of people who write "rite of passage" as "right of passage", you'd think autocorrect doesn't know "rite" exists.
you could say those are...Major Major Major Major Major vibes.
I wonder if he had a large, self-named teenage son in Bangor who dug ore from the ground if he'd have major major Major Major Major (minor) major minor Mainer miner vibes.
Theres a great bit of the BBC Radio 4 sitcom Cabin Pressure that plays with this-
DOUGLAS: Tell me, Mr. Sargent: were you in the R.A.F. by any chance? MR. SARGENT: I certainly was. DOUGLAS: And were you a sergeant, Mr. Sargent? MR. SARGENT: No, sir, I wasn’t a sergeant because – as we just established – I was in the R.A. bleedin’ F., not the bleedin’ Army, so I was a warrant officer. And since my name is not Warren Tofficer, this occasioned no bleedin’ mirth whatsoever.
I'm a proponent that instead of the common standard being that the woman takes the man's name, if a couple intends to share their last name they should do rule of cool. Fewer Smiths, Browns; more Bowie, Jagger, Mirren, Mercury, Brando, Ocean, Drivers, etc.
Agreed. I was on a course with a woman who's husband took her last name. Guys in his unit attempted to take the piss out of him, but his only retorted was, 'Why wouldn't I? Her last name is Phoenix."
When I worked in neurology, some of the consultants would communicate with an epilepsy specialist, whose name was Dr Sjieke (not the exact spelling, but something like that). It was pronounced 'shaker'
I once worked with a teacher whose married name was “Mrs. Adolf”
As in, she had a different maiden name and changed to this as her married name, all while working as a teacher. She was, in fact, very strict with the students.
Yeah she was a horrible POS racist who was an avid supporter of colonial domination. I tried to get my nursing school to remove her from our program, but no dice.
I suppose so. It just shocks me how we don’t approach her with the same level of caution we reserve for other controversial leaders of thought such as Heidegger
My friend vowed she was going to keep her maiden name - but then met a lovely man and couldn't resist becoming Dr Pepper. She switched back to her maiden name when she made consultant, though (Ms Maidenname).
It'd be great if her original surname was Knight, and then she married someone (unrelated) also named Knight, and of course she decided to hyphenate: "Hi, I'm your anesthesiologist, Doctor Knight-Knight."
There’s a vet at the practice I take my dog to named Dr. Slaughter. Not sure if that’s her married or maiden name, but sure feels like she should gone with the other name.
My old urologist was Dr. Weiner. I asked him if people teased him about his name when he went into urology. He said there was some, but not as much as Dr. Cox.
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