Category Archives: Names

I Think There Is A HUGE Discrepancy In President Biden’s Classified Document TESTIMONY That Is Going Unquestioned.

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by Anura Guruge
on March 12, 2024

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Click to ENLARGE. Link to TRANSCRIPT.

This was in the INTERVIEW transcript that was released today. I heard excerpts from it, from the HEARING, this morning.

This statement by Biden, to his ghostwriter caught my attention (multiple times). Biden tells him, as you can see in the transcript (Page 32), that he found ‘all the classified stuff downstairs’. YOU can see that … right? I highlighted it.

But, Biden never reported that! That is what I am confused about. Nobody seems to be questioning him or Robert Hur about this. What am I missing.

From what I can see one of Biden’s lawyers contacted the DOJ in 2022 to say Biden has found some classified documents. But, this appears to have been long after this conversation with his ghostwriter.

WHAT AM I MISSING?

Please help me. Thanks.

‘Robert Hur’, Special Counsel (‘Biden Documents’), Impressed Me Much — Most Intelligent Looking Asian I Have Seen In Ages.

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by Anura Guruge
on March 12, 2024

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Wow! Did you see him on TV? I did (albeit not for that long). But, prior to that I had heard his opening remarks and responses to the ‘investigating’ House Committee for over an hour (during my daily morning walk).

I had never seen his image before (prior to today). Had no idea he was Korean given his name ‘Robert’. Had thought that ‘Hur’ was an awkward name to live with. Was going to look it up. I don’t need to anymore. It is Korean.

Listening to him, he sounded intelligent.

Then I saw him. WOW. He looks intelligent. I am in awe. Obviously a very gifted man. Not sure why he is a Republican, but I won’t hold that against him.

Definitely the most intelligent looking Asian I have seen in ages. It made me happy. It is good we have men like him. I don’t know ANY Koreans! My loss. I would like to meet some. Next time I go to New York State, I will have to find a Korean restaurant to start with.

Unusual Names: ‘Householder’.

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by Anura Guruge
on February 1, 2024

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Click to ENLARGE. From the February 2024 “Reader’s Digest“.
Click to ENLARGE & read here. From ‘Quora‘ via ‘Google’.

As some of you know names intrigue I. I came across this while reading this month’s “Reader’s Digest“. It caught my attention. It was new to I. I first thought that it must be a joke, an alias — a pen name. But, of course, I had to look it up. I did. Now WE know. Wow. Kind of neat. Still not sure where the ‘holder‘ part comes in. Definitely wouldn’t appear to be the one who holds right to a house. But, we have a clue as to where the name comes from.

Appears that around 4,200 people in the U.S. currently have that name. So, it is not very common.

Got Myself Some ‘.wiki’ & ‘.guru’ Domain Names For A Bunch Of New Website Initiatives.

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by Anura Guruge
on January 25, 2024

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‘minipc.wiki‘ already up — BUT a work in progress. With ‘Google Sites’.

‘.guru’, OF COURSE, was made for I.

It is MY NAME. ‘Guruge‘ <<— from the ‘house of the Guru‘ (i.e., ‘from the house of the teacher’).

‘Minipc.guru’ is KIND of neat. My NEW hobby. Yes, mini PCs have got to me. Latest interest. SMILE. But, I am STARTING with ‘minipc.wiki‘.

Having some WIKIs will also be FUN. So, stay TUNED.

Interesting Names: ‘Train’ (As A Surname) — Especially If You Help Build A MAJOR U.S. Railroad.

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by Anura Guruge
on August 25, 2023

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Click to ENLARGE & read here. Wikipedia.

What a GREAT description!
I would LOVE (just LOVE) to be referred to as such.

Click to ENLARGE & read here. Wikipedia.
Click to ENLARGE & read here. From ‘Google’.
Click to ENLARGE & read here. From ‘etymonline.org‘.

I came across the name in my ongong reading re. the construction of the ‘Transcontinental Railroad‘. I am on my THIRD book, in succession. At least one more to go. Had been on my READING bucket list for many years. The building off it & ALL of the machinations that was involved has intrigued me. Now, finally, I am getting to learn about it, slowly but steadily.

George Francis TRAIN (1829 — 1904), eccentric or not, was quite the character. He had made a vast fortune when he was still in his early 20s. His FIRST (of 3) trip around the globe is supposed to have been the basis for Jules Verne’s classic ‘Around the World in Eighty Days‘.

That HE, with that last name, was a key backer & promoter of the ‘Union Pacific Railroad‘ cracked me up. A ‘train’ helping build a train line. I had to look it up.

Interesting that the name & its application when it comes to transportation have TWO VERY DIFFERENT origins. See above. This is the stuff that intrigues I.

‘Six Flag’ Parks Named After The Historical ‘Six Flags Over Texas’ — Did You Know That?

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by Anura Guruge
on January 27, 2023

Click to ENLARGE. Base image from ‘Six Flags New England‘.
Click to ENLARGE. Wikipedia link.

I will confess that I was, until today, NEVER aware of the ‘Six Flags Over Texas‘. I learnt that, to my amazement & awe, from a somewhat lackluster (2022) movie I had watched on ‘Prime‘, viz. ‘Vengeance‘. Learning THIS was the only redeeming attribute of that movie.

Unlike the protagonist in that movie, I am not a stranger to ‘Texas‘. In the 1990s I spent a fair amount of time in Texas — albeit all of it in Dallas, Austin & Houston. A number of my top consulting clients were based in Texas & I had to visit them often. Towards the latter part of the 1990s I was going to Texas at least once a month. So, I am sure I saw the six flags numerous times. I guess they must have them at the airports. I guess I never took any notice & none of my Texan friends ever enlightened me about the flags. Shame on them.

An interesting aspect of one’s history to celebrate. Six is a fair number of flags.

Right off the top of my head I know that the country of my birth ‘Ceylon’ (now Sri Lanka) could claim to have been under at least 4 flags: Portuguese, Dutch, British & its own.

‘Hawaii’ must have had at least 5.

I did a quick look but I couldn’t find a list or answer. There must be countries (or states) in Europe & Asia that were colonized multiple times. Something worth looking into.

But, this ‘Six Flags Over Texas’ intrigued & interested me. Glad I watched that dumb movie just for that. SMILE.

People With Names Apropos To Their Job, ‘Danielle Breezy’, Chief Meteorologist For ‘ABC’ TV Affiliate.

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by Anura Guruge
on October 15, 2022

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Click to ENLARGE. Link to this page on ‘WKRN’.

Cute. Chief Meteorologist named ‘Danielle Breezy’. She did the national news for ABC’s ‘Good Morning America‘ today. That is how I happened to see her. Funnily & atypically none the GMA hosts even tried to make a joke (or reference) to her name. It must be known, among the circles that she moves in, that it is not cool to bring this up. But, it amused me.

That said, her name is still NOT good enough as that of ‘Ken Weathers’ who is also a Chief Meteorologist at another ABC affiliate. Does ABC affiliates go looking for weathermen with appropriate names? I had come across Ken 5-years ago. So, Breezy reminded me of him. I just had to look him up again — & it wasn’t hard.

Click to ENLARGE. Link to this page on ‘WATE’.

The name ‘weather’ as I discovered when I came across Ken in 2017 has the most intriguing origins. But, I won’t go into that now because this post is about Danielle Breezy. So, I had to look it up. I came across this quite quickly. Can’t confirm its validity but it sounds vaguely plausible.

Click to ENLARGE. Link to ‘House of Names’ page.

Interesting Names: ‘Glasscock’.

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by Anura Guruge
on August 2, 2022

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Click to ENLARGE. Some of the ‘Glasscock’ examples I found — rather quickly. There is also a ‘Glasscock Prize for Poetry’!
Click to ENLARGE & read here. Link to ‘SurnameDB’ for Glasscock.

I cannot recall how I came across the name, i.e., ‘Glasscock‘. It was a few months ago. But, I had (predictably enough) found it intriguing enough that I had created an electronic note with just that name.

Today, I had a few minutes to look it up. Interesting indeed. Both geographic & occupational, i.e., from a place, ‘Glascote’, believed to have been a place where a glass blower lived. Incredible. Names are so intriguing.

I am glad I got to share this with you. Enjoy.

NO. Not a name I would have wanted to have. SMILE.

Interesting Names: ‘Vernal’ (As A Surname).

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by Anura Guruge
on July 28, 2022

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Click to ENLARGE. I took this picture this morning, at our beach.
Click to ENLARGE & read here. First results from a ‘Google’ search.
Click to ENLARGE & read here. From my old blog from 13-months ago!

Well, the picture directly above tells much of the story.

I had seen this white GMC SUV, at our beach, last year. I LOVED that number plate. After I realized that it didn’t say ‘venal’, I was SO impressed that someone was clever enough to use that name — especially since the SUV (unbelievably) was a GMC ‘Equinox’. I KID YOU NOT. So, it was ‘Vernal Equinox‘ (i.e., the Spring (or March) Equinox). WOW.

Yes, Vernal is Latin for Spring.

Last year, though the SUV was parked by the beach there was no one at the beach.

NOT so today. There was a young lady — & she was the only one who was there at that early hour.

I approached her & asked her about the number plate.

She KNEW about the Vernal Equinox BUT disappointed me by immediately pointing out that the number plate does NOT allude to that. Instead, ‘Vernal’ is her step-dad’s name & it was his SUV! Oh!

But, it was still cool. Never heard of anyone with that name. So, that intrigued I.

I looked it up. There is no consensus as to the origins of that name. It could obviously have been for folks born at or around the Vernal equinox. Some, however, think it is the result of a corruption to a geographic name. But, as the middle graphic attests there are indeed Vernals around. Now you know.

Interesting Names: ‘Hooker’ — Especially If You Are A Female.

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by Anura Guruge
on July 26, 2022

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Click to ENLARGE & read here. From ‘SelectSurnams.com‘.

I recently met a lady, a married lady, whose last name is ‘Hooker‘. Given my fascination with names, I had to ask. She had obviously had the question before. She had an answer down pat — & it cracked me up:

“I got married and became a hooker. I wasn’t a hooker before that.”

Since this was her second marriage & she had done that later in her life she could not, alas, tell me what it was like to grow up as female whose last name was Hooker.

I kind of had guessed that the name must be associated with ‘hooks’ — possibly to do with weaving. Well, I was close.

When I thought about it more I remembered the infamous Civil War General Joseph Hooker (1814 — 1879). I, however, had NO IDEA that some think that the prostitution connotation of the word is (erroneously it would appear) attributed to him. See below:

Click to ENLARGE & read here. From ‘Historycollection.com‘.

I guess I would opt for 3) — the snagging or HOOKING of men.

I can’t be 100% sure, but I don’t think ‘hooker’ in the pejorative manner was used in the U.K. in the 1960s or 1970s. Given how American culture has now overrun Britain (especially via movies & songs) I am sure that things have changed & all Brits will know what a ‘hooker’ means.

The words we used were: scrubber, tart, slag, slapper & sometimes crumpet (though that was also used to describe ‘nice’ (but possibly somewhat ‘easy’) girls.