Nominative Determinism
- John Gore owner of Hammer Films
> Iconic British horror label Hammer Films and Studios has been acquired by renowned British theater producer John Gore.
- Moron caught speedingwww.bbc.co.uk Dungannon: Man doing 100mph not deliberately speeding, says judge
Tadeusz Moron was driving over the speed limit while going to pick his mother up from the airport.
- Scott Forrest and Josephine Hedger, tree climbers
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/rotorua-daily-post/news/kaweraus-scott-forrest-named-worlds-top-tree-climber-for-the-fourth-time/3SAGTSRLQ5QOMFHRFRQUUKAYBU/
- Dr. Dick Chopp, Urologist
He's real and he specialises in vasectomies
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/18525268
- Ros Canter - part of Team GB's gold medal winning Olympic equestrian teamwww.sportinglife.com Paris Olympics 2024: Great Britain win their first gold of the Games thanks to eventing trio Ros Canter, Laura Collett and Tom McEwen
Great Britain sealed a fifth Olympic eventing team title at the Chateau de Versailles in Paris before Laura Collett later grabbed an individual bronze.
- Rosanne Plante, the lawyer who fights for people’s right to grow ‘weeds’ | She used to enforce local weed ordinances. Now she helps native plant enthusiasts combat them.wapo.st The lawyer who fights for people’s right to grow ‘weeds’
She used to enforce local weed ordinances. Now she helps native plant enthusiasts combat them.
The lawyer in question is named Rosanne Plante.
cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/11857127
> Archived copies of the article: archive.today ghostarchive.org
- Steven Haddock, Marine Biologist
“There are still so many things we don’t know about [a milky sea] beyond that it must be caused by bacteria,” says Steven Haddock, a marine biologist at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute in Moss Landing, Calif., who collaborates with Hudson on milky seas research. “What are the substrates that fuel the growth of these massive numbers of bacteria, and what are the environmental factors that keep them from getting diluted into the water column?”
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/bioluminescent-milky-seas-predicted
- Former CIA analyst Sue Mi indictededition.cnn.com Former CIA analyst Sue Mi Terry indicted on charges of secretly working for South Korea | CNN
A prominent expert on North Korea and former CIA analyst has been indicted by a New York grand jury on charges of secretly working for the South Korean government in exchange for designer goods, Michelin star meals and $37,000 for a fund that she controlled.
cross-posted from: https://zerobytes.monster/post/1990634
> ##### The original post: /r/nottheonion by /u/Holden-Tewdiggs on 2024-07-17 16:13:33. >
- Grady Hillhouse, civil engineer
He also hosts the "Practical Engineering" channel on Youtube. https://www.youtube.com/@practicalengineeringchannel
- Big if true; better than all the dentists named Dennis
cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/2997684
> cunk
- Dildo, Canada, visited by dildo of ice
cross-posted from: https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/18602528
It's not just people, cities can have prophetic names too
- Mark Reckless, incompetent politician
- Source article
- His Wikipedia page if you don't want to read an old Telegraph article
>In July 2010, Reckless apologised for missing a vote on the budget because he was drunk. He said that he "did not feel it was appropriate to take part in the vote because of the amount he had drunk".
- Dr. Joshua Butt, gastroenterologist (butt doctor)
https://gastronorth.com.au/team/dr-joshua-butt/
I'm sure he's sick of being the butt of this joke
- Bud Weisser, Arrested for Trespassing at Budweiser Brewerywww.stlmag.com Bud Weisser, King of Break-Ins, Arrested for Trespassing at Budweiser Brewery
The 19-year-old whose name really is Bud Weisser was busted in July for breaking into a South County convenience store.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/15147982
> >The 19-year-old whose name really is Bud Weisser was busted in July for breaking into a South County convenience store. > > >...19-year-old Weisser made an epic comeback when police caught him trespassing at the Budweiser brewery last week.
- District Judge *John Law* knows the law
Article from a few months back: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-68180317
- Thomas Lawyer, the lawyer from Lawyersville
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/14806094
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Lawyer
- Scott Speed, racing driver
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Speed
Sadly didn't live up to his name in F1 but seems to be doing pretty well in rallycross
- Lord Russell Brain, neurologist and the first Baron Brain
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell_Brain,_1st_Baron_Brain