Names & Professions

[Emily]

Hi all,

Earlier I was reading an article about a comet that may have hit America back in the day - killing off an early civilization & some woolly mammals. The funny thing is that one of the scientists/geophysicists who are investigating this comet theory is named: Robert Firestone. Get it? Fire-stone, and he studies comets ... !! ahahah!

Add that to just last week I met an archivist with the last name "File", and I start to wonder - along with the poet Wordsworth, what are some other surnames that seem to reflect one's chosen...? profession.

Know of any?

[Omar]

I saw this mustachioed man during today's Patriots vs. Browns game: Scott Player.

[Denim Gremlin]

Hi all,

Earlier I was reading an article about a comet that may have hit America back in the day - killing off an early civilization & some woolly mammals. The funny thing is that one of the scientists/geophysicists who are investigating this comet theory is named: Robert Firestone. Get it? Fire-stone, and he studies comets ... !! ahahah!

Add that to just last week I met an archivist with the last name "File", and I start to wonder - along with the poet Wordsworth, what are some other surnames that seem to reflect one's chosen...? profession.

Know of any?

Comets are giant balls of ice, dust and rock. They aren't on fire.

[Emily]

kiss my ass! 

they freakin' look like they're on fire!

[Denim Gremlin]

to bad his name isn't "looks like it's on firestone"

[Emily]

Touché.

[buffcoat]

Colin 2000, it's time to update that moniker.  It's not too early for Colin 3000.

Emily, your point is certainly defensible - if a comet hit the Earth, there would be a whole lotta fire.

Nyyyyyowwwww A Whole Lotta Fire
Nyyyyyowwwww A Whole Lotta Fire
Wannuh Whole Lotta Fire
Whole Lotta Fire

[Denim Gremlin]

Colin 2000, it's time to update that moniker.  It's not too early for Colin 3000.

Emily, your point is certainly defensible - if a comet hit the Earth, there would be a whole lotta fire.

Nyyyyyowwwww A Whole Lotta Fire
Nyyyyyowwwww A Whole Lotta Fire
Wannuh Whole Lotta Fire
Whole Lotta Fire

I wanted to avoid the inevitable Andre 3000 comparison. Maybe Colin 4.0?

Also, any Get a Life fan will get what I'm going for.

[Emily]

Emily, your point is certainly defensible - if a comet hit the Earth, there would be a whole lotta fire.

Nyyyyyowwwww A Whole Lotta Fire
Nyyyyyowwwww A Whole Lotta Fire
Wannuh Whole Lotta Fire
Whole Lotta Fire

Thank you Buffcoat, I shall defend my point:

Colin, to bad you forgot to include gas in your list of comet components. If you had kept reading past the first Wikipedia page, you'd have seen it is the pressurized gas that causes combustion as the comet soars through the layers of the earth's atmosphere, burning up in flames as the tail, or coma, melts the rock and dust into a molten fire stone. In earlier times, this molten fire stone was referred to by the Greeks as 'calculus flamma,' (stone of fire) which eventually morphed from 'calcumma' to 'calmet', to the present day 'comet'.  So I think it's safe to say there's humor in Robert Firestone's name, as it pertains to his research in the comet arena.

[Denim Gremlin]

to paraphrase Steinberg, i just got served a piece of humble pie.

I'll concede to you. Yes, comets are rocks on fire and sneezing is your soul escaping.

[Tim K in DC]

When I was a kid the guy who managed the Almacs grocery store in Newport was named Al Grossman.

[bobby.]

Add that to just last week I met an archivist with the last name "File"

What was his first name?!

[Emily]

that's pretty funny.