He was born to do this work
Posted by Azeem on 1 December 2008 - 5:25pm.
Sorry folks, this has nothing whatever to do with music, film, or anything else regularly discussed on this forum. However, reading a very serious article in the Independent today provoked an unexpected chuckle, and got me thinking about people with names serendipitously apt for their chosen career.
"In March 2007, the World Health Organisation and UNAids gave their official backing to circumcision and called on countries to offer it to all heterosexual men. Kevin de Cock, head of the WHO's Aids department, described it as "an extraordinary development", adding: "Circumcision is the most potent intervention in HIV prevention that has been described.""
An obvious example from the music world would be Joe Strummer...
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Joe Strummer
Well, it was better than his given name of John Mellor.
I always thought Lou Reed had a particularly apt name
With his lurid songs about "sucking on my ding-dong" and "Shiny boots of leather" etc I actually guessed the completely normal sounding "Lou Reed" was a stage name.
Lou Reed/Lurid I have no idea if that was a co-incidence or not. I'm not even sure what his real name is.
nominitive determinism
is the fancy term for it.
Two things
1. I have learnt something today.
2. There are some people whose jobs/lives are not as busy as mine making stuff up.
Quite
Feedback in New Scientist has been running such items for a couple of years or more.
Kevin...
really should get a band together.
Revolting
....
Phil Crack
Works for the Cambridgeshire County Council's roads department.
Here's proof.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/cambridgeshire/7666161.stm