Several given names used in English-speaking countries resemble common nouns.
These may form the basis of tasteless jokes of the form "What do you call someone with no arms and no legs who is..."[1][2]
Peel off the use of physical disability as a stock target, however, and you reveal a universe where nominative determinism is the norm.
"Gee, I've allthetropes:Never Heard That One Before..."
So perhaps a better angle for a work of fiction telling the origin of jokes like this would start with someone who visited a poli village where a lot of people happened to have occupations that fit well with their names.
But after the game of telephone and "tell a woman" that has always characterized social media even before the Facebook exploded in popularity, the legend grew into something much more tasteless.
- Ali
- Between two buildings
- Allen
- Loosening hex screws
- Art
- On a wall
- Basil
- In your spice rack
- Bill
- In your mailbox
- Bob
- In a lake, pond, or pool
- Brad
- Stuck in a wall
- Bud
- In a cannabis field
- Chip
- On a poker table, or on a golf course
- Chuck
- Holding a drill bit
- Chuck and Patty
- They run a butcher shop
- Cliff
- Sitting on a hill
- Crystal and Tiffany
- Hanging from a chandelier
- Curt and Rod
- Hanging over the window
- Daisy, Lily, Rose, and Violet
- In your garden
- Dawn
- In your dishwasher, or working the early shift
- Derek
- Covered in oil
- Eddy
- In a stream
- Eve
- Working the late shift
- Frank
- On your grill
- Flip
- On hot asphalt
- Harry
- On barbershop floor
- Herb
- In your spice rack
- Homer
- Going over a fence
- Jack
- Holding up your car
- Jim
- Getting trampled by weightlifters
- Joe
- In a coffee cup
- John
- Whom everyone takes a dump on
- Lee
- Out of the wind
- Link
- Holding chains
- Mark
- Thrown against the wall
- Matt
- Outside the door
- Mike
- On a stage
- Pam
- In a frying pan, but she won't stick around
- Peg
- In a hole
- Phil
- In a ditch or pothole
- Rex
- Hanging from a chain destroying buildings
- Rock
- Covered with cement
- Rod
- Hit by lightning
- Russell
- In a pile of leaves
- Sandy
- On a beach
- Skip
- Thrown across a pond, or waterskiing
- Spike
- In the end zone of a gridiron football field
- Stu
- In a hot tub
- Wilt
- Left out in the sun
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