Name = Profession

[zoobyshoe]

Henry Head, Neurologist, 1861-1940

Russell Brain, Neurologist, 1895 -1966

George deForest Brush, American Painter, 1855 - 1941

 

[CRGreathouse]

ll I'd need to do is start working in real estate.

 

[Topher925]

And I need to become a pedicurist.

 

[waht]

profession is the origin of many surnames, like

carpenter
cooper
smith

 

[Lacy33]

How busy would Carpenter Coopersmith be?

 

[robphy]

Not quite on topic... but close

http://books.google.com/books?id=dXxQAAAAMAAJ
Mathematics for engineers
by Dull

 

[robphy]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Madoff ?

 

[zoobyshoe]

Not quite on topic... but close

http://books.google.com/books?id=dXxQAAAAMAAJ
Mathematics for engineers
by Dull

That's hysterical! If he writes he probably teaches:

"I'm taking math with Professor Dull this semester."

 

[Ms Music]

I used to know someone with the last name of Swindle. He was a used car salesman.

 

[turbo]

There are a LOT of Bakers and Cooks in this area. Not many Hookers, but some, and about as many Drivers. Enough to re-enact "Payback" several times over. I wonder if Lucy Liu has anything lined up currently - she was pretty good in that movie.

 

[Math Is Hard]

That's hysterical! If he writes he probably teaches:

"I'm taking math with Professor Dull this semester."

I just had to go google for him. Couldn't find much on Professor Dull, but then he first published that book back in 1941.

And FYI - this is also the author who gave us, "Plants for Washing Sand and Gravel: Effective and Efficient Equipments for Reliably Economical Work", just in case you might have seen him as one-dimensional.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

I have an old physics book - The Physics of Vibrations and Waves, by Pain.

My uncle worked with a finance manager named Joe Economy.

Tsu knew a gyneacologist named Hyman.

 

[Kurdt]

There are some examples at the bottom of the wiki page on nominative determinism.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nominative_determinism

 

[jtbell]

There's a TV weather reporter in Charlotte NC named Larry Sprinkle.

 

[waht]

# Cardinal Sin, former Archbishop of Manila.
# Anna Smashnova the Israeli tennis player.

hehe

 

[TheStatutoryApe]

I went into court with a friend once and the judge was rather amused when he called out for a defendant named Rebel.

 

[robphy]

Not quite on topic... but close

http://books.google.com/books?id=dXxQAAAAMAAJ
Mathematics for engineers
by Dull

(from someone's flickr page)

When I first saw the book in my college library (many years ago),
I recall that it had two authors... but I couldn't find a reference to it... until now.

http://books.google.com/books?id=wD2KxUYCQCUC&pg=PA50&lpg=PA50&dq="Mathematics+for+engineers"+dull

"Dull, R.W., and Dull, R. 1951. Mathematics for Engineers. McGraw-Hill Book Co, New York."

 

[Ms Music]

I recall that it had two authors... but I couldn't find a reference to it... until now..... "Dull, R.W., and Dull, R. 1951. Mathematics for Engineers. McGraw-Hill Book Co, New York."

Would that be Dull and Duller?



sorry...

 

[Math Is Hard]

It's even funnier seeing it on the spine of the book.

Is that the author... or a warning..?

 

[zoobyshoe]

Man, that's fantastic! Someone should make that into a poster and sell it!

 

[zoobyshoe]

I used to know someone with the last name of Swindle. He was a used car salesman.

Tsu knew a gyneacologist named Hyman.

!

I just had to go google for him. Couldn't find much on Professor Dull, but then he first published that book back in 1941.

And FYI - this is also the author who gave us, "Plants for Washing Sand and Gravel: Effective and Efficient Equipments for Reliably Economical Work", just in case you might have seen him as one-dimensional.

Non-stop excitement with this guy!

 

[RonL]

In case you have not Wolfram'ed names, Smith is 1st in America, as the most used name.:zzz: