Gingerbread Man on 7/4/2010 at 21:25
I poast thraed
I was named after Alexander III of Macedon. Big surprise there: My dad's an ancient history nut and my mum liked the name anyway. The crowning moment of irony in my life happened in utero when I basically subsumed my twin brother (to be named Darius, that's the irony) -- but that's not the point here. The point is Post Your Favourite Namesakes. Three of them, if you can. Super bonus points for a full name hit (there is an Alex with also the same last name as me, some kind of famous basebolman, but I don't care about him because he never had to make a pit stop to let a monkey out of his car like Tim Flock)
Um.
First I choose Alex Trebek. Stalwart icon of my first adoptive country, this very different sort of Mr T embodies the erudite as well as the insane. Will Ferrel probably has more to do with that, but I'm not listening to reason today, my friends! Srsly tho, Trebek is a balls-out cool guy as well as a smoooooove operator. <3 him madly! And suddenly I think there is a post I made in a thread years and years ago wherein I wax homosexual for him. I can only hope it was in vain. (Straight up, though, Trebek is a freak -- or was -- on the scale of Geraldo Rivera)
For my second Alex, I will choose the eponymous African Grey parrot, legend among psychologists. Alex died in 2007 at the relatively young age of 31, but the impact that this bird had on my imagination (never mind on the scientific community) was immense. Here we had a creature barely three steps better than a frog, able to demonstrate the emotional development of a two year-old and the intellectual capacity of a five year-old. This animal was able to communicate its internal states (emotional and cognitive) in a direct way. In ENGLISH. Oh what?
My penultimate Alex is the Alex-338, properly called the Bor rifle -- I just like the idea of a bullpup configuration on a sniper rifle and, if video games have taught me anything at all (and you know that they have) it is that I am more comfortable, competent, and capable with a sniper rifle than anything that doesn't involve huge, suicidal explosions. Huge, suicidal explosions are fun in video games, but let me tell you that in real life they get people pretty ticked off with you! So I shall choose a sniper rifle for my real-life weaponry, my friends! I wouldn't want to tick anybody off!
Finally we arrive at the fourth namesake. Not to imply that you must reveal four namesakes yourselves, you understand... And I have in no way thought this thread out, I may find more and better people who copied my name. I'm having fun on a nice day. Okay? OKAY?!
Um. Fourth one:
Inline Image:
http://www.uelekevu.com/pics/lexx102_708a.jpgNOW YOU GO
Tonamel on 7/4/2010 at 21:30
You can't fool me. That last one's not named Alex at all.
Gingerbread Man on 7/4/2010 at 21:32
I so can fool you and you know it.
And you love it.
demagogue on 7/4/2010 at 21:56
Perhaps you are looking for something of the following:
* Bhutan — country in the Himalayas, Asia
* Butane — a hydrocarbon
* Button
Cade = an orphaned lamb OR the standard-unit for a barrel of herring in some Scandinavian countries, but *not*, I've discovered, the Celtic word for a warrior, which is Kaed. I once met a Kaed and he said his name meant a Celtic warrior and I said, yeah, well, mine means an orphaned lamb and don't think that won't give you nightmares just because the spelling is a little different!
Namdrol on 7/4/2010 at 23:26
Well isn't that funny, I'd never heard of the African Grey Alex before yesterday, when I read about him in a Rupert Sheldrake book someone had left behind.
(And of course Bhutan is the home of the Drukpa Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism and a guy I know is good friends with the King.)
Tonamel on 8/4/2010 at 00:02
Oh, and I suppose I should
contribute or something...
1.
Sir Ian McKellen, because come on, Magneto AND Gandalf? No way he's out of this list.
2.
Ian Anderson, flute player extraodinaire for Jethro Tull. Here, (
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=toHlMD50eYY) have a video of "Thick as a Brick" from their Madison Square Garden performance. Fluting starts four minutes in.
3.
Ian from (http://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/) Ian's Shoelace Site, because I can't help but be in awe of anyone who spends THAT much brainspace on something so trivial.
ZylonBane on 8/4/2010 at 00:16
What.
Renzatic on 8/4/2010 at 06:39
Lone Idol Sombrero? Your parents we're hippies, weren't they?
So my name? Matt (well, Matthew if you want to get precise). Apparently my parents liked the sound of that name, and thus chose it for me. Apparently a whole slew of other people thought the same. Cuz...damn. There's a whole lot of Matts.
