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Have you/would you change your name for the sake of your career?

Discussion in 'Journalism topics only' started by NickMordo, Feb 15, 2011.

  1. trifectarich

    trifectarich Well-Known Member

    Fair Hooker didn't have a problem.
     
  2. terrier

    terrier Well-Known Member

    My first shop had a fishing columnist named Dan Head. Thank God his son didn't marry the daughter of local sports radio/newspaper guy Bob Dick.
     
  3. LongTimeListener

    LongTimeListener Well-Known Member

    Pat Summitt's father, Richard Head, is smiling down from above on this thread.
     
  4. 93Devil

    93Devil Well-Known Member

    The young Indian boy had spent most of his life in a quandry... He felt different yet... couldn't figure why... he was just so depressed. He went to the Chief for answers... He asked the chief how his brother Red Deer Running had gotten his name...

    The chief answered in his typically poetic way..."When Red Deer Running was born, at the moment of his birth, the first thing his mother saw was a beautiful deer running off into the forest... and so Running Deer was named. It is the custom of our tribe to name the offspring according to the spirits in nature visiting upon the birth."

    Then, the boy said to the Chief... And how did my sister "Thundering Bird" get her name? The chief described again, how at the moment of her birth Thundering Bird's mother had heard a roar of thunder and looking up, saw a bird flying in the sky...

    The boy asked again, how his cousin "White Crouching Bear" had been given such a name... And the chief, looking down once more at the boy, explaining the traditions of their tribe.... White Bear's mother had seen a rare white bear crouched over a stream at the moment her baby's birth. Then he asked the boy...

    "Why do you ask, Two Dogs Fucking?"
     
  5. mustangj17

    mustangj17 Active Member

    Some Fucker decided to keep his name the way it was.
     
  6. I would only change my name if I could be called Donnie Karate.

    Or Max Power.
     
  7. Big Circus

    Big Circus Well-Known Member

    Max! Pow-er!
    He's the man whose name you'd love to touch!
    But you mustn't touuuuuuuch...
    His name sounds good in your ear
    But when you say it, you mustn't fear
    Because his name can be said by anyone
     
  8. Walter Burns

    Walter Burns Member

    Get that one from the hair dryer?
    I would only change my name if I could be Rembrandt Q. Einstein.
     
  9. Big Circus

    Big Circus Well-Known Member

    Not Hercules Rockefeller or Handsome B. Wonderful?
     
  10. bumpy mcgee

    bumpy mcgee Well-Known Member

    I'd like you to meet my ladies, Hooty McBoob, Chesty La Rue and Busty St. Claire
     
  11. SeanKennedy

    SeanKennedy Member

    To me, a unique name will stand out. In this business, that's a good thing.
     
  12. Guy_Incognito

    Guy_Incognito Well-Known Member

    Paul Orndorf's Dad?
     
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