Why do you think he goes by "Barack" now.
And why do you think Kucinich came up, uh, short?
I'm sure in a scientific poll like this they made sure the people questioned were assuming all else to be equal. When you bring race into the picture it would trump the name factor, obviously.
I'm gay Dave where it counts, baby.
so what's the implication for Dave Barry?
What about foreign names like Huedgedik? As in Huedgedik Johnson. I decry the anglocentrisim of this study.
Dennis the short. It's traditional.
Hmmm, so maybe this explains why Ray and Dave Davies had such a temptuous relationship.
More seriously WTF would you even ask a question like this for a poll? Is there even any pop mythology that associates name with penis size?
I notice "John" doesn't appear either on the long- or short-lists.
Is there even any pop mythology that associates name with penis size?
Why not? There's pop mythology associating pretty much everything else with penis size.
Is there even any pop mythology that associates name with penis size?
Maybe certain names like Kwame and Dikembe. But then there's the confounding factors to consider.
Is there even any pop mythology that associates name with penis size?
There's mythology associating pretty much everything with penis size, innit.
People who cross-post with soup biscuit have bigger penises, for instance.
Now now, DS, pwnage needn't make you irrational.
Hey, I'm not saying correlation is causation.
Isn't science wonderful? I never would have thought this!
Isn't science wonderful? I never would have thought this!
You'll note the esteemed investigator carefully avoiding saying bigger than exactly what, lest he get trapped in a falsifiable claim.
If the question was "bigger than a breadbox" it would be more specific, but less sensitive.
Maybe certain names like Kwame and Dikembe Motumbo.
Maybe certain names like Kwame and Dikembe Motumbo. Horse.
Maybe certain names like Kwame and Dikembe Motumbo. Horse Kriston.
Maybe certain names like Kwame and Dikembe Motumbo. Horse Kriston. Penismasher.
I rode through the desert on a penis with no name.
But your horse's name is Dave.
I wonder if my horse's penis has a name?
I know someone named John Thomas. Presumably, his parents had no idea what "John Thomas" means. Google tells me that the name is pretty common; there's even a John Thomas steakhouse. If I went there, could I resist ordering the tube steak while giggling like a six-year-old? I doubt it.
The same way one christens a ship? The horse might turn ornery.
30: I don't think you need a bottle, apo. Just an exchange of liquid.
Giddy-up, Dave! We're goin' to Jiffy Lube!
there's even a John Thomas steakhouse.
Would be even better if they served Spotted Dick.
29: you could christen it apo (strikethoughs don't really work for commas)
28: I went to school (K-12) with a guy named "John Thomas". Strangely enough, the association never came up, as far as I know.
On the other hand, I also went to school with a guy whose middle name was "Penix".
Could be worse, you could have gone to school with this guy.
A friend was determined to name her daughter I/ona; alas, her last name was Johnson. She fretted over the issue for months. She finally went with a hyphenated last name, which, frankly, was not much better.
I/ona John-son? No, not really much better at all.
Have you no respect for the power of the googlebots, Ned?
When I worked on the college newspaper, we had a guy J/oe E/nis contribute an op-ed piece. Our paper had very strict style guidelines that prescribed middle initials in all bylines. The guy insisted that he didn't have middle name, and therefore could not use a middle initial. I looked him up in the student directory, and sure enough, his full name was "J/oseph P. E/nis".
Also, one of my relatives married into a family named Long, and she had a brother-in-law of the same last name and the first name Fairley.
Iona Newman-Johnson
Iona Gold-Johnson
Iona Johnson-Schlager
There exist sisters Ina and Ura, surname Dick. Swedish, iirc.
Dudes. Fi/sher-Johnson. Ehh, (I said), okay.
There exist sisters Ina and Ura, surname Dick. Swedish, iirc.
I don't think you iirc correctly. I think you're thinking of Ima and Ura Hogg, of the Hogg Oil Dude in Texas.
No, not those ones. Immigrant family I met. It was a very long time ago, so maybe the names weren't that perfect....but they're close, at least.
Ura is apparently mythical.
Ah, so that can be the name for your horse!
I think you're thinking of Ima and Ura Hogg, of the Hogg Oil Dude in Texas.
Ima Hogg has donated extensively to the Houston art museum. I'm obviously low-brow for snickering at the "donated by" signs when I was there.
We know, no joke, a child who shares the relevant name on this dedication page.
As I have mentioned before, in college I was graded by a dude named Aquinas Hobor, who liked setting extra credit problems involving ML's type system more than he liked designing reasonable methods of assessment.
in college I was graded by a dude
So that's what the kids are calling it these days.
re: 59
Apparently even Keynes was doing it [grading], back in the day.
"Aquinas" is a truly vicious name to inflict on a kid. That's "Nigel" to the thousandth power. At least the Harry Dicks of the world can brace themselves for predictable avenues of attack.
This really is the most ridiculous poll. I notice that they don't give any of the actual raw data - one would assume that this is more or less random.
My grandmother was friends with a girl named Ima Pearl Button when they were both young. Later, IIRC, Ima raised cats she claimed were part mountain lion and who would gallop around her house leaping tables in a single bound, cats that stood taller than a man's knee, but my grandmother believed Ima to be fibbing about the mountain lion part.
I once met someone named something like L/inda M/ay C/ease.
62: Luddite. Flat-earther. Why do you hate Science?