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I left Hope Behind
Posted: Sun Nov 19, 2023 2:19 am
by jemhouston
Hope, Arkansas that is.
I'm driving from Houston to Indiana to see my sister and her family for Thanksgiving. Two things, one I drove past the Remington Ammo plant, I don't think they were working, but given the traffic I can't be sure.
One stretch of I-40 was named for Trooper Clark Kent Simpson. I suspect that's where he was killed when his squad car was hit by a semi.
https://www.odmp.org/officer/12267-troo ... nt-simpson
Why would anyone give a son with first name of Clark the middle name of Kent?
Then again, I at one time worked with James Bond, and yes he was in a security related field.
Re: I left Hope Behind
Posted: Sun Nov 19, 2023 3:04 am
by Jeff Thomas
No I am not making this up.
A long time ago my wife lived next door to a family with three children, two boys and a girl. Their names were Peter, Jack and Bunny. Anybody want to guess what the family name was?
Re: I left Hope Behind
Posted: Thu Nov 23, 2023 3:20 am
by DaveAAA
I once worked with a guy named Richard Head. Yes, he went by "Dick:.
Re: I left Hope Behind
Posted: Thu Nov 23, 2023 3:21 am
by DaveAAA
Jeff Thomas wrote: ↑Sun Nov 19, 2023 3:04 am
No I am not making this up.
A long time ago my wife lived next door to a family with three children, two boys and a girl. Their names were Peter, Jack and Bunny. Anybody want to guess what the family name was?
Caerbannog?
Re: I left Hope Behind
Posted: Thu Nov 23, 2023 4:58 am
by warshipadmin
My good friend Dick Head has two boys, Tom and Harry. His wife has the worst temper of anybody I know, I haven't bothered asking her opinion of that.
Re: I left Hope Behind
Posted: Thu Nov 23, 2023 1:21 pm
by gtg947h
DaveAAA wrote: ↑Thu Nov 23, 2023 3:20 am
I once worked with a guy named Richard Head. Yes, he went by "Dick:.
Yeah we had a guy at work named Richard Johnson (they called him "Redundant" behind his back) and we had a teacher in high school named Richard Weed. Both went by Dick, of course.
Re: I left Hope Behind
Posted: Thu Nov 23, 2023 4:39 pm
by David Newton
Just about the only worse name would be Richard Peter Johnson.
Re: I left Hope Behind
Posted: Thu Nov 23, 2023 5:44 pm
by Poohbah
Back in the 1970s, there was a crazy conspiracy guy (crazy even by conspiracy theorist standards) who distributed a monthly audio tape with all of his baroque theories...
Doctor Peter Beter. (Yes, it rhymed.)
Re: I left Hope Behind
Posted: Thu Nov 23, 2023 7:08 pm
by JBG
I once had a Minister who went by the name Richard Face. He chose not to use one particular diminutive of the name Richard. Can't imagine why...
Jonathan
Re: I left Hope Behind
Posted: Fri Nov 24, 2023 9:29 pm
by Belushi TD
My high school choir teacher was named Richard P. Eckstein.
We, of course, assumed that his middle name was Peter, so we called him Dick-Dick.
Turns out that his middle name was actually Paige.
Belushi TD