• ivanafterall
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    1510 months ago

    What are the odds that his name would be Bruce Landlord? He was born for this!

    • appel
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      1110 months ago

      To be fair, I’ve stored people in my contacts like this if I did not know their last name. Dan Bugguy, wherever you are, hope life’s been treating you well.

      • @Kyrgizion@lemmy.world
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        510 months ago

        That’s also the exact way surnames first appeared and evolved, as well. Which goes back a loooong way. Even the Romans with three names usually had one (the last) as a descriptor of sorts.

        • @irmoz@reddthat.com
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          10 months ago

          Correct. The first “John Fletcher” would have actually been a fletcher. And then he may have named his son “Paul John’s son”, shortening to “Paul Johnson”.