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• Churbleyimyam@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  🎤 My name is chika-chika Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch

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  • TheBat@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Error: Exceeds character limit

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• Zwiebel@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Also jobs. Lots of millers, smiths and hunters etc

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  • Mickey7@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Ironically no one had the last name of “prostitute” or “harlot”

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    • kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      cough en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lee_Hooker cough

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      • deegeese@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        The job was named after Joseph Hooker

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    • hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      I, John Prostitute, am offended by this.

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      • TachyonTele@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Better than Whoreson at least.

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  • syklemil@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Yeah, doesn’t seem to be a thing in Norway, but it could probably be revived for the countries that did that. Like Sheryl Copywriter or Ross Youtuber or whatever.

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• dragonfucker@lemmy.nz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Dragon Rider The Bathroom At The Roller Rink

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• RedditRefugee69@lemmynsfw.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Conceived? You really want to be named after the motel your daddy did a big cummy in your mommy’s pussy?

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  • vzq@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Are you familiar with the Paris Hilton?

    It’s tacky, but let’s be honest, that’s the least tacky thing about her.

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    • RedditRefugee69@lemmynsfw.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      I think she gets a pass for the last name seeing as the hotels are named after her family and not the other way around.

      Not sure if she was conceived in Paris. I’ll ask her next time I’m having a three-way again with her and your mom.

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      • jdeath@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        obviously, her family is already named Hilton so GP couldn’t have been referring to that

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  • WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    That last sentence is cursed.

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    • RedditRefugee69@lemmynsfw.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      If you say so, Ms. Motel 6.

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    • jdeath@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      I seem to recall it was pretty common on Reddit (back in the day maybe)

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• Soup@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  “London”: Not too bad, works ok.

  “Climax”: …

  “Tallahassee”: Pretty frickin’ awesome as a nickname but not sure formally.

  “Syracuse”: I syr-acuse that of sounding dumb.

  But regardless, besides all the “Von” or “De” or whatever names I’m willing to bet that modified or old spelling last names based on places are totally a thing that we also just decided to stop doing.

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  • syklemil@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Yeah, like the -berg names (e.g. Stoltenberg), it’s likely the family farm if you go far enough back. My family has a name that’s an island and the settlement on it. Taking a profile picture next to the town sign that’s also our last name is pretty common (for a name of a few hundred people).

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• scytale@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Where they were born or conceived or something.

  “Hi there, Mr. Dumpsterbach.

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• Mickey7@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Certainly in the long past your last name was probably derived from the town or area that you lived in. I don’t think it would work today.

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• Diddlydee@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  You’d end up with lots of people in each area having the same name.

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  • vzq@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    And we do! The most common name in the Netherlands translates to “the Frisian”.

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