Thursday, March 31, 2005
Really, What Did You Expect From Him With a Name Like That?
A 60-year-old man named Donald Death Jr. has been arraigned on charges of stealing an estimated $293,000 from a cemetery association on Long Island. Death was the association's chairman and assistant treasurer, but now faces up to 15 years in prison. Attorney Melvin Roth, who is representing Death, said that the entire amount has already been repaid. Is it just an eerie coincidence that a guy named Death was involved with a cemetery? Source
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Nominative Determinism
Lookup this term on Google for many more examples.
Ten or eleven years ago the magazine New Scientist coined it for people whose careers matched their names. They eventually got bored with it, but still mention it occasionally.
Examples: the noise and vibrations engineer for the Queensland Electricity Commission, Australia used to be someone called Ron Rumble;
the British Medical Association's representative on hospital hygiene is Dr Paul Grime.
Other names have been suggested for the same effect, Aptonyms, Aptronyms, and Axionymy.
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Lookup this term on Google for many more examples.
Ten or eleven years ago the magazine New Scientist coined it for people whose careers matched their names. They eventually got bored with it, but still mention it occasionally.
Examples: the noise and vibrations engineer for the Queensland Electricity Commission, Australia used to be someone called Ron Rumble;
the British Medical Association's representative on hospital hygiene is Dr Paul Grime.
Other names have been suggested for the same effect, Aptonyms, Aptronyms, and Axionymy.
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