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ttooddddyy

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Why is it that when I run into a bunch of middle aged Yanky tourists almost every other guy is called Bob or Hank ?
 
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Dunno, why is it that every member on this forum from Papua New Guinea is named ttooddddyy?
 
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How old are these tourists? Names are a generational thing. Hank and Bob, popular Baby Boomer names. I think Charlie and John are up there too.
 
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Todd is a metro name in the United States and it seems like half of all englishmen are named Richard or William.

What's the point of starting flamebait threads like these?
 
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Even living in the U.S. I have never met anyone who's name is Hank believe it or not. I can't remember a Bob either.
 
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I grew up with a couple kids named Hank and knew one or two guys named Bob. Way more people named Bill though.


It's like Jon Smith, sometimes people just get popular names. I work in a school with mostly hispanic kids.....so why does another teacher have 3 kids named Jose in her classroom?


It's also by generation...

Not many little girls named Ethel these days, but I bet there are 5-10 in every old folks home across the states,lol.
 
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Mercenary X99 said:
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*Yeah as in "Dick Head!"
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You'd be amazed how many people you can call that and they'll never get it. lolz.
 
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Abasuto said:
You'd be amazed how many you can call that and they'll never get it. lolz.
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Yeah I know, I do it all the time.

That's an old school form of insult I learned from my Dad
when he was no longer able to call this one Lt. a "Dick Head"
because he'd reported my father and some others running their
squadrons in the T.I. program, they all resorted to calling the man
Richard Cranium for about a year until the bastid realized they
were still calling him a "Dick Head"

:buttrock: :lol:

I picked up on that at age 4 too.
 
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NGT said:
I grew up with a couple kids named Hank and knew one or two guys named Bob. Way more people named Bill though.
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my dad's name is bob, and i have an uncle hank and an uncle bill.
 
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I have a habit of stereotyping the name Jeff with fat people. I went to school with 5 Jeffs and all of them were fat. Even since then its been stuck in my mind.
 
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Together, the origin of my name mean "courteous ravine" or "ravine of courtesy." Huh, you learn something new everyday.
 
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Scanline said:
Todd is a metro name in the United States and it seems like half of all englishmen are named Richard or William.

What's the point of starting flamebait threads like these?
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No point, just a bit of fun
 
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That's odd because when I go to Sweden I run into people by the names of Gunther, Sven, Oli as well... why is that?
 
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