Posts Tagged ‘Nominative Determinism’
Lee Bum-Young knocks Team GB from London 2012 Olympics
THE South Korean whose team knocked Team GB out of the London 2012 Olympics is called Lee Bum-Young. And that is all – other than to say that after all those victories, that’s more like it…
St. Bernard saves Keyla McCree, 7, from fall in New York Alps
NOMINATIVE determinism hero of the year is Steve St. Bernard, who – naturally – rescued a 7-year-old girl named Keyla McCree who fell from a third-story window in Brooklyn. St Bernard caught her.
Nominative determinism is the process whereby people’s lives are unconsciously shaped by their names. So. Mr St. Bernard is always more likely than, say, a Mr Slipper to save a child from an accident high up in the urban Alps.
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Posted: 18th, July 2012 | In: Reviews | Comment (1)
Mr Sikkel names a blood-sucking parasite after Bob Marley
WHAT’S in a name? Paul Sikkel of Arkansas State University in Jonesboro, has named a blood-sucking parasite after Bob Marley. Meet gnathia marleyi, a sea-dwelling tick, a swimming mosquito. Says Sikkel:
“I named this species, which is truly a natural wonder, after Marley because of my respect and admiration for Marley’s music. Plus, this species is as uniquely Caribbean, as was Marley.”
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Nell Diamond tweets Bob Diamond’s survival
BOB Diamond’s daughter is called Nell Diamond. She is one letter off being a tribute act to Neil Diamond. Nell’s in the news because her dad has resigned his job as head scapegoat at Barclay’s, and she told George Osborne and Ed Miliband to “go ahead and #HMD”.
HMD, we learn, is an abbreviation for Hold My Dick.
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Nominative Determinism: Team GB Olympian Robbie Grabarz poses for gay mag
NOMINATIVE determinism of the day takes in the London Olympics. A Team GB high jumper has posed for Attitude magazine, the gay organ. His name? Why, it’s Robbie Grabarz…
Nominative determinism of the day – Wendy Baker from Greggs
THE pastry tax is dead! Bring out your samosas! And tip your hat to Greggs, the high street bakers that has garnered loadsa free publicity from the Government’s idiocy. How’s that for supporting British business! On the telly, we’ve spotted the spokesman fo Greggs. Her name? Why, it’s Wendy Baker.
How did you get the job, Baker?
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Posted: 29th, May 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Nominative Determinism of The Day: Professor John Bukkake – facial specialist
NOMINATIVE Determinism of The Day: Professor John Bukkake:
“Renouned facial dermatologist at the University of Calcutta, India”
Facial Dermatology
Professor John Bukkake does a lot of research in the field of facial dermatology…
More nominative determinism when we see it (or when you send it in)…
Posted: 25th, April 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comments (2)
Fa Kyu – nominatie determinism of the day
NOMINATIVE determinism of the day is Fa Kyu, Facebook’s poker-playing siren…
Posted: 5th, April 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Irish footballer wins Cheltenham tabloid sweepstake
CONGRATULATIONS to those punters who backed an Irish footballer to be the subject of a Cheltenham race goer behaving badly. The Mail alleges that one Leicester City player “was so unruly on the second day.. that security had to be called to the grandstand box”.
His name? Sean St Ledger.
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Nominative determinism: Professor Eileen Kaner – an anti-binge drinker
NOMINATIVE Determinism of The Day: Professor Eileen Kaner:
I am a behavioural scientist and my research programme aims to improve public health by promoting the use of evidence-based interventions to reduce behavioural risk. A key strand of my research is the development, evaluation and implementation of screening and brief alcohol interventions in health and social care settings. I am a founding member of FUSE – a UKCRC centre of excellence in translational public health research.
Prof Kaner is in.
Posted: 16th, February 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Dick Bellringer and Bonnie Beaver – nominative determinism of the day
THE new editor of the Andover Advertiser is… Dick Bellringer.
Newsquest’s Andover Advertiser has made Dick Bellringer head of editorial. Previously he was news editor for the newspaper.
Nominative determinism?
In other news, Bonnie Beaver is an MD specialising in obstetrics and gynaecology in California.
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Posted: 9th, February 2012 | In: Reviews | Comment (1)
Lady Garden is an actual person and she hates cyber bullying
NOMINATIVE Determinism Watch detects Lady Garden. Yep, Lady Garden is an actual person:
By Nicholas Randall, Press Association Political Staff:
Liberal Democrat Lord Storey, head of a primary school in Liverpool, said it was easy for under-age children to set up accounts on social networking sites and use them without permission from parents and teachers. He told Government spokeswoman Baroness Garden of Frognal at question time in the House of Lords: “You will be aware of the hugely increasing problem of cyber bullying by and of children and young people, particularly in schools.”… Lady Garden said the Government was “committed to tackling bullying on social networking sites” and would be prepared to hold meetings on the issue. She added: “The Government is pressing the internet industry in the UK and Europe to implement clear and simple processes for dealing with abuse online.”
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Posted: 11th, January 2012 | In: Politicians | Comment
Infectious Tim Flannery hears Abigail Borah’s mosquito cry
GLOBAL warming news is pretty much one long scare story. The sceptics ma ybe less doubting if the warmists weren’t so shrill and knowing. Get a load of Abigail Borah, a victim of nominative determinism, channelling the winds of change through her mouth whistle. The latest scare story is not that Miss Borah is going to read the news, rather that Tim Flannery, Australia’s Chief Commissioner, sees disease in the hills you’re heading for:
As he foresees on page 117 of his book The Weather Makers:
There is, surprisingly, one group of species that will benefit enormously from this aspect of climate change. These are the parasites that cause the four strains of malaria. As rainfall increases, the mosquitoes that carry the parasite will spread, the malarial season will lengthen, and the disease will proliferate. From Mexico City to Papua New Guinea’s Mt. Hagen, the mountain valleys of the world support human populations in high densities. And they are healthy, glorious places in which disease, where population density is not too great, is rare. Just below these communities — in the case of New Guinea at around 4,500 feet — are great forests where no one lives. This is because of malaria, which is so prevalent in parts of the tropics that it controls human populations. In the new future, global warming will grant access to the malarial parasite and its vector the Anopheles mosquito to those high mountain valleys, and there they will find tens of thousands of people without any resistance to the disease.
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Kerry Katona: Do You Pronounce Mysterious New Lover Steve Alce As Steve Alcy?
KERRY Katona, face of own-brand ketchups, wants to talk about her new lover. His name? Why, it’s Steve Alce.
Says Kerry:
“I’m in love with him. I really, really like him. He is lovely… kind and caring. Steve is so unlike other men I have been with and I can honestly say I have never felt this strongly about anyone before. He is not with me because of my fame and wants to stay out of the limelight. He likes Kerry being Kerry and takes me for who I am. He is quiet and thoughtful – almost mysterious – which I love.”
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Posted: 9th, December 2011 | In: Celebrities | Comment
Cosmetic Surgeon Allegedly Photoshopped Patients’ Faces On ‘Mounds And Mounds’ Of Porn Images
DR Peter Tlusty might well be a victim of nominative determinism. Dr T-lusty’s behaviour is the subject of a General Medical Council (GMC) tribunal. The man who once showed Telegraph readers his London home is accused of misconduct.
It is alleged that at the Belgravia Surgery treatment rooms, Mr TLusty kept a large stash of porn. The allegation details 6 filing cabinets filled with 132 dirty magazines and clippings. This is not all. It is also alleged that in the cabinets were folders with “hundreds of manipulated images of patients and surgery staff in X-rated poses“.
And…one more thing, M’lud. There were diaries, allegedly. These ledgers are said to have contained league tables of the staff and patients looks scored out of 10.
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Local News Story Of The Day: Sadd News From Purley
LOCAL News Story of The Day: The Coulsdon and Purley Advertiser reports on the closure of Jeff Dee Bookmakers, in Purley, which shut its doors owing money to punters.
Steve Walters, 54, from Kenley, asks:
Why was he taking people’s money two days before he shut shop, when he knew he was going under? I’ve just been to see about getting my money back and they’re saying no.”
He has now paid back all money owed.
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Company Of The Day Is: Arçelik
COMPANY of The Day Is…Arçelik – Turkey’s number one name in white goods…
Spotter: Michael Kritharis
Posted: 10th, November 2011 | In: The Consumer | Comment
Hundreds Of Indian Girls Called Unwanted Change Their Names
TO India, where nominative determinism has caused parents to name their Nakusha – that means unwanted in Hindi. Sorry, little ladies, mum and dad would have preferred a boy, and they never ant you to forget how you disappointed them.
Charming, eh.
But the state of Maharashtra has set about change: 200 Indian girls have been renamed.
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Jason Orange’s Sex Life Guided By His Name: Lulu’s Take That Ex Dates Ginger Catherine Tate
IS Take That’s Jason Orange’s love wand guided by his name? The singer and dancer has been dating the comedian Catherine Tate, she of the ginger hair. Orange once dated Lulu, who is also famously ginger. Naokm wonder if Cilla Black, born Cilla White, is considering another colour-based name change in her quest for love?
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Posted: 21st, October 2011 | In: Celebrities | Comment
Citroen Hires Peugeot: Nominative Determinism
MORE nominative determinism now, readers, as we spot Citroen UK’s new sales director…Charles Peugeot…
Posted: 16th, October 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Police Arrest Mullets For Amish Hair Crimes (Photos To Cherish)
AMISH men can rest easy- their beards too – in the knowledge that a splinter Amish group who were going about chopping off their brethren’s beards and hair have bene captured. The men are part of the Amish Bergholz Clan. They’ve been, as they tell it, exacting religious punishment. Their names? The Mullets: Sam Mullet’s sons Johnny Mullet and Lester Mullet*.
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Posted: 12th, October 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Mr Weiner Wants To Ban Nude Hot Dog Eating In San Francisco
THE City Supervisor of San Francisco wants to outlaw nudity in public. He wants nudists to no longer be nudists. He wants them to wear clothes on the public beaches. He wants them to wear towels in eateries. Says he:
“San Francisco is a liberal and tolerant city, and we pride ourselves on that fact. Yet, while we have a variety of views about public nudity, we can all agree that when you sit down naked, you should cover the seat, and that you should cover up when you go into a food establishment.”
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Posted: 8th, September 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment
