Nominative Determinism

Smoke and fire at the Smokey street food stand today.

The President of the Royal Horticultural Society is Keith Weed.

the two site safety coordinators for a general contractor i work with are named Blood and Harms.

I used to have a great list of these ... called them aptonyms. My favorite and one not commonly on the lists is Amelia Earhart (pronounced "air-heart") ... anyone who has read her bio's she constantly talked about her love of being in the air.

There's a psychologist in my town named Livengood.

Does anyone know if NASCAR great Richard Trickle had any continence issues?

all depends

Good one. I've heard it said that all race car drivers and solo pilots do. Amelia did. She said the lady pilots don't talk about it but the men joked about it. Always thought it was kind of the same in NASCAR.

Which reminds me of the time I almost had to walk off and leave a nut low hand in hi-low Omaha/8 game in a sprint for the john, shortly after a kidney stone surgery, in a hand that just wouldn't wrap up.

director of men's health at Hims: Peter Stahl

My surname is Piper and I used to play the flute. Before that, a whistle.

I had an electrical engineering prof. named Voltz.

There is an engineering professor at UC-Berkeley whose name is Fai Ma. He signs his name F=ma

tore ligaments in my thumb decades ago and dr. slaughter was the surgeon to repair it

I hear a certain american president has a certain flatulence problem

That a certain ex-president goes both ways

And that two other ex-presidents never trimmed their pubes

My in-laws engaged an elder care attorney named Mr Young.

Dr Drakulová - literally the girls' form of the surname Drakula

https://www.topdoktor.sk/doktor/hematolog-a-transfuziolog/bratislavsky-kraj/bratislava/nove-mesto/3502-mudr-monika-drakulova

TopDoktor.sk

MUDr. Monika Drakulová - Hematológ a Transfuziológ

Haematology and Transfusiology obviously.

Someone on the reviews page uses the phrase "Nomen Omen" - which is Latin for "Nominative Determinism".

One for the German speakers. RIP Tom Lehrer, who worked as a teacher of Mathematics at MIT and UC Santa Cruz.

And one of his songs was "Hooray for New Math," to bring the two careers together.

Reading a book on con artists. One of the alleged grifters has the last name "Fink".

Alicia Keys

It’s so amazing she became a musician. Perhaps she was inspired by her name since she was very young?

My Mothers podatrist is named Dr. Bopied. Beaux pied (same pronuncition) is French for "beautiful feet"

And nearly biped!

Your mom might want to take a chaperone to that podiatrist's appointments 😀

Frank GORE, whom I loved, 3rd all-time leading rusher, sure had a goring running style, like a bull.