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In reply to the discussion: 'Older than dirt quiz' [View all]Buckeye_Democrat
(14,854 posts)It's amusing to me when people have names that fit their occupations -- e.g., a "Dr. Brain" who is a brain surgeon.
It seems to happen quite often, but it's surely random and the funny matches just stand out more.
My mother applied for a cooking job at a restaurant called "Proud Pig" when I was a teenager long ago, but returned home pretty quickly to share with me that the manager who interviewed her was named "Dick Duck". She already thought the restaurant's name was kind of odd, but then she thought of "Dick Duck, manager of Proud Pig" after hearing his name.
Then she couldn't stop laughing. She said he was often glaring at her as she continued to laugh, embarrassingly unable to control it. So she predicted that she'd never get that job, and the place indeed never called her. She kept wondering why he couldn't have just used used "Richard" instead, given his surname.