What’s in a name?
Thursday, 13 Mar 2025
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There’s and NHL player named Roman Polak, and he’s neither Roman *nor* Polish
But you’ll never hear them complain about Tom Holland not being Dutch. Hmm….
Wait until Dr. David finds out that legally changing his first name to Dr. doesn’t actually make him a medical professional.
Plot twist: Michael Jordan was Egyptian this whole time.
Are you sitting down? Because there’s something about Barry White I need to tell you.
Run like an Egyptian!
Was Michael Jackson the son of Jack ?
Why do people have to be so weird? Imagine thinking this does anything to hurt her legacy or lower her importance in any way. It is so sad, and fucking weird.
I imagine Eli David will be shocked when he finds out that he’s not king of Israel.
Only Siths deal in absolutes
The athlete Mark English is Irish
Rosa Luxemburg was actually from Poland!
Pretty sure Jack London didn’t write about cockney wolves.
One common Irish surname is English. Also Langley, from “L’Anglais,” aka “The Englishman.”
If you’ve got a national name as a surname, chances are, your family didn’t get this name while living in that nation. You don’t have Egyptians running around saying, “That’s Sayed the Egyptian,” because Sayed’s neighbors would just say, “So? We’re all Egyptians.” The name only sticks once you AREN’T in that country.
Bradley Cooper, not a barrel maker 🤬
Donald Trump isn’t actually a fart either!
That clown emoji is becoming a quick way to lose all credibility in my mind.
I saw one where some guy was complaining about another guy’s name being “Islam”, basically saying it’s stupid to name your kid after a religion. The guy’s name was Christian.
My name, Tony comes from Anthony which comes from the Greek root Anthos which means flower. 👍
Has he heard of Jack Black
Zionists are always trying to do this. Palestinians aren’t even a people! They’re just Arabs or North Africans you see so it’s not a big deal when we steal their homes.
Michael Fox, you’re busted.
Eli means “elevated” or “high”
And he must have been to write this
“It’s ok, she’s an Egyptian” is his last though before he finishes his Palestinian induced wank.
Alicia keys not a key. Jamie foxx is a fox & Joaquin phoenix the mythological bird /s
Not everyone named Christian, or variations thereof, are Christians.
Straight up forgot about Jordan the country for a good five minutes and was just scanning the comments like: “I don’t get it, what is OP going on about?”
Zionists are so exposed they have become dumb
Clint Black-famous black country star.
How he became a Dr.?
Just let a zio talk to see how dumb they are.
Has he ever heard a bout the prime minister of Australia
This reminds me of when Austrian soccer player Marko Arnautovic got in trouble for yelling “I’ll fuck your Albanian mother” as an epithet during a game featuring an opponent who was ethnically Albanian.
Ironically, “arnaut” is a Turkish ethnonym for Albanians, and “ovic” is a patronymic suffix, so the name Arnautovic means “son of an Albanian”.
Wait until they hear about the Dickinson family
“Mars bars are made right here on Earth.”
-Dorothy Zbornak
I knew a kid in school called Roman. We’re in Brazil.
Sabrina Carpenter is actually a singer and not a carpenter at all
Im a Canadian with the last name that means “the Egyptian”… crazy how nature do that
There are a couple of Syrian footballers and a swimmer with the same name.
Ok
This belongs in clever comebacks more than most posts I’ve seen in a long time
My surname is Diamond, but I am no gem, though I can be hard at times!
People never complain about David Tennant actually owning his house.