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9 minutes ago, Summer in Transylvania said:

Jack Bender, cartoonist.

 

Also reported in the Cartoonists thread.

What a Bender he was. 

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Italian actor Dario Penne is dead aged 84

 

Been spending most his life living in the pasta’s paradise 


I know his death has also been evoked in the topic « Death, Italian style », but I thought it also fitted in this topic 

 

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Always thought he was just outside Lisburn ;)

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6 hours ago, Joltin Joe said:

Fortunately for Trump, this guy had the name first.

 

https://www.scmp.com/author/orange-wang


My dentist is Dick Wang.  Nothing like getting some Dick Wang in your mouth a couple times a year. (This is god’s honest truth)

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3 hours ago, Sir Creep said:


My dentist is Dick Wang.  Nothing like getting some Dick Wang in your mouth a couple times a year. (This is god’s honest truth)

 

Dentist Dick Wang

 

I called bollocks but the internet proves me wrong (or at least that there is a Richard Wang Dentist) :D

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Robert Zimmerman.

(Bob Dylan’s real name)

 

apparently @Toast is confused…

 

 

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I had a customer today called Yuk Mei Fung.  I really hope she doesn't have a Spoonerism. 

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There was a Russian football player named Vladimir But. And but is French for goal ! However he only scored 27 goals in 18 years. He notably played for Dortmund.

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Luís Boa Morte, former Portuguese football player, his surname means good death in Portuguese
He played for Arsenal, Southampton, Fulham and West Ham and the 2006 cup

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I'm childishly amused by the name of The Times political journalist

Roger Boyes | The Australian

Roger Boyes.

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Just now, time said:

I'm childishly amused by the name of The Times political journalist

Roger Boyes | The Australian

Roger Boyes.

This some sort of British thing? I don’t get it.

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2 hours ago, TheDumbReaper said:

This some sort of British thing? I don’t get it.

 

From Chambers dictionary:

roger2 verb (rogered, rogering) coarse slang said of a man: to have sexual intercourse with (a woman). rogering noun.
ETYMOLOGY: 18c: from Roger, obsolete slang meaning 'penis'.

 

 

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21 minutes ago, An Fear Beag said:

 

From Chambers dictionary:

roger2 verb (rogered, rogering) coarse slang said of a man: to have sexual intercourse with (a woman). rogering noun.
ETYMOLOGY: 18c: from Roger, obsolete slang meaning 'penis'.

 

 

I thought it was a pun between childish and Boy(e)s !

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1 hour ago, An Fear Beag said:

 

From Chambers dictionary:

roger2 verb (rogered, rogering) coarse slang said of a man: to have sexual intercourse with (a woman). rogering noun.
ETYMOLOGY: 18c: from Roger, obsolete slang meaning 'penis'.

 

 


So it’s equivalent  ‘Johnson’

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Just now, An Fear Beag said:

 

From Chambers dictionary:

roger2 verb (rogered, rogering) coarse slang said of a man: to have sexual intercourse with (a woman). rogering noun.
ETYMOLOGY: 18c: from Roger, obsolete slang meaning 'penis'.

 

 

 

Ahh, I see now.

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"Gozei Taba" was a Japanese supercentenarian who was the oldest person in Okinawa when she died in 2001.
´´Gozei´´ it is the same as i came, in the sense of having an orgasm in Portuguese

I don't know if the word to enjoy in this sense is came, but that's what Google translator suggested

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Nice case of nominative determinism in today's Guardian obits, with flute and oboe player Norman Blow.

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This one made me lol. Can't imagine she got the respect she deserved from her pupils:

TROLLOPE Betty Joan died peacefully in hospital on 17th October 2023, aged 97. Much loved. Formerly head of Rochester Girls’ Grammar School. Private cremation. Service of thanksgiving will be held at Rochester Cathedral this year.

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Went to a friend's wedding and the maid of honor was this lovely lady by the name of Lusitania, named after the RMS Lusitania despite her family not having any connection to it.

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15 minutes ago, TheSpinosaurus said:

Went to a friend's wedding and the maid of honor was this lovely lady by the name of Lusitania, named after the RMS Lusitania despite her family not having any connection to it.

Lusitania was the ancient name of Portugal, maybe this woman was Portuguese or had Portuguese origins ?

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