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As someone with a surname that is easily made fun of, I urge you to just leave off irrelevant quips.


Nomen est omen is a saying since the Roman times, and there are scientific studies that show names do have an effect on professions (eg there are more people named Art working with Art than youd statistically expect)


The US government's global anti-corruption envoy is named Rich Nephew. That still kills me every time he's in the news.


I don’t suppose he has an uncle named Bob?


In that case, poor Bickus Dickus


nominative determinism. I did a whole lot of research into this because my surname is Opmomfucker and yeh it checks out.


I don’t think it works for legally changed names. Though I can see why you’d do it, Cumguzzler is rather crude in the modern age


My maternal grandfather changed his last name when he turned 18, from the German Uhren to Uhrey. If your last name bothers you, fix it.


Uhren sounds fine to me, now if it was Huren i would understand


It was probably frequently pronounced like "urine"


What's wrong with renting?


Its a slur for prostitutes in German ;-)


And with that in mind, you may want to re-read the post you replied to.

(That's about as close to explaining the joke as I'm willing to go.)


Haha gotcha, but Huren also means renting in Dutch (with no other connotation AFAIK)


But updating all your github commits to your new name is a pain. :(




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