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Bucky

(54,013 posts)
Sat Oct 13, 2012, 06:03 PM Oct 2012

If you had the actual last name "Flowers" would that make you act nicer or turn you into a badass?

(The old boy-named-Sue conundrum, updated)


"If my last name was Flowers, I would overcompensate by..."
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a. getting Aryan tattooes, wearing spiky hair, and beating the shit out of bikers in bars.
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b. embracing the stereotype and hugging everybody in the street, regardless of their hygeine.
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If you had the actual last name "Flowers" would that make you act nicer or turn you into a badass? (Original Post) Bucky Oct 2012 OP
I knew two women with this last names Sanity Claws Oct 2012 #1
badass IcyPeas Oct 2012 #2
The platoon leader of our battalion's scout unit in Germany was named Flowers. Aristus Oct 2012 #3
Work with a guy name HSu whistler162 Oct 2012 #4
I know a woman who married into the name Kelly Kelle and another who married into Hussey. HopeHoops Oct 2012 #5
Back years ago... pipi_k Oct 2012 #6
Reminds me of my NH Rep - Dick Swett (real name, but I don't know why he didn't use Richard). HopeHoops Oct 2012 #8
If your name is Herbie Flowers you will become a badass bass player Tom Ripley Oct 2012 #7

Sanity Claws

(21,849 posts)
1. I knew two women with this last names
Sat Oct 13, 2012, 06:09 PM
Oct 2012

and both were nice.

I also knew some men with the name Flores, Spanish for Flowers, and they were not bad asses.

Aristus

(66,369 posts)
3. The platoon leader of our battalion's scout unit in Germany was named Flowers.
Sat Oct 13, 2012, 06:30 PM
Oct 2012

He was a bad-ass. Although it may be because he was overcompensating. Either way, armored scouts are bad-ass...

 

HopeHoops

(47,675 posts)
5. I know a woman who married into the name Kelly Kelle and another who married into Hussey.
Sun Oct 14, 2012, 11:13 AM
Oct 2012

Then there's Krystal Ball - and yes, I heard her answer the (probably common question) that yes, indeed, that's her given name.

pipi_k

(21,020 posts)
6. Back years ago...
Sun Oct 14, 2012, 11:38 AM
Oct 2012

when I was a teenager, a few years after my parents got divorced, my mother had a boyfriend whose name was Jimmy Hiscock.

For real.

I'm real glad she never married him. Not that it would have mattered unless he tried to adopt us kids.

Then we would have had to kill him.

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