The Blog With Five Names

Also, because this is incredibly important to Bond for some reason, she needs to be an incredibly predatory, womanizing lesbian. Some perfectly happy married straight woman needs to become gay by the end of the movie.

someone else shaves the barber (that would make the barber someone who does not shave themself, which would mean the barber shaves them)

the barber shaves themself (this would make the barber someone who shaves themself, which would mean they aren't shaved by the barber)

the barber is shaved by a different barber (a different barber still counts as a person.)

the barber is shaved by a razor and not a person (if this counts as not shaving themself then nobody in this town is being shaved by the barber and this does not actually fit any part of the scenario described)

the barber is a woman (women actually count as people so she still needs to be shaved)

the barber is bald (bald people are people too.)

Looks like this corrupt government is gonna have to find another grounds to arrest him. And hey look there’s this incident with a hotel and some money’s left unaccounted for….. perfect excuse to jail an enemy of the state.

The story of the incident never included the barber in any of the tomfoolery, but changed were made as the story was gossiped about. Characters and events were forgotten and replaced with new ones until no elements of truth remained. Is it still the same rumor?

The barber is arrested for this fake story. They take him in. Now, cops are allowed to lie, but if all they do is lie then the barber is safe believing the opposite of what they say. The cops grill him by playing the role two opposite characters— truth cop and lie cop, and the barber isn’t told who’s who. Luckily the cops are kinda dumb and don’t realize that if they answer ask questions this makes it trivially easy for the barber to figure out who to ask for an attorney. Soon, he’s slated for trial

The judge doesn’t care if the story’s fake as long as the prison pays them. Many call this place tyrannical. But at what point in adding unjust laws, one by one, does a government become a tyranny?

Back to the barber though, he’s through with it. He’s making a daring escape. Because the cops have no idea what he’s got in his pocket.

Found this on reddit, it says "smoking while refueling can help you quit forever". Does this count?

They are an Assistant Professor of Media Industries at New York University and literally just finished writing The Apple II Age: How the Computer Became Personal, a book on the history of the computer industry in the 70s.

Pigeon uses Remembrance day poppies to build a nest on top of Anti-bird spikes in 2019. The absolute amount of symbolism going on here is off the charts.

A pigeon. Both in that it's a dove which means peace, but more importantly that pigeons were essential as messengers during WWI. Most famously Cher Ami.

The spikes resembling violence and hostility.

Using Poppy pins made specifically for Remembrance day and all the symbolism of Poppies and WWI itself.

The fact that it stole the poppies from a tomb of an unknown soldier.

The fact it took them to make a nest to lay eggs and raise its babies in.

The fact that it's on the ledge of a church.

The fact that the window it chose to make the nest against is of a wounded soldier.

S - hell yeah

Echo - shades of Greek mythology, interesting and distinct while also being an actual name that some people have

November - @postoctobrist is the reason why I am making this list

Sierra - from the Spanish for "mountain range", falls under the same distinct-but-reasonable category as Echo

A - perfectly reasonable names

Charlie

India

Juliet*

Oscar

Romeo*

Victor

*these names are cool but be warned that if you choose one you will get the same three Shakespeare jokes for the rest of time

B - sure I guess

Delta - I have never heard of anyone with this name but I think it could work?

Mike - deeply boring name, try and be more imaginative. (the only reason Charlie isn't down here is that I know a couple of Charlies and they're lovely)

Zulu - probably don't name yourself this if you're white

C - I am really curious how you're gonna make these work

Bravo - I feel like this has the cadence and feel of a name, but it's definitely out there

Lima - people named after cities are not that common, but I guess if Paris can be a name then so can this

Papa - not sure this works as a legal name but it's definitely plausible as a nickname within a very specific in-group

Quebec - see Lima

D - maybe salvageable somehow?

Foxtrot - pretty odd, but you could shorten it to Fox and it's kinda reasonable

Tango - another dance, but even harder to make work than Foxtrot

Whisky - occupies a similar nickname space as Papa, with the extra downside that it makes you sound like an alcoholic

X-Ray - "Ray" on its own is fine but randomly shoving Xs at the start of things is something that basically only Elon Musk does

Yankee - it's not completely insane as a name but it has enough unpleasant connotations that I wouldn't recommend it

F - do not under any circumstances use these

Alpha - if someone introduces themself to me as "Alpha" I will immediately cover my drink

Golf - all issues with the sport aside, I just think this is a really ugly sequence of phonemes

Hotel - you are not a Monopoly token

Kilo - usually units of measurement are named after people, not the other way round

I will concede that I'm wrong about marking Foxtrot and Kilo that low, but I refuse to apologise for putting Tango and Whisky in D

I gave nonstandard spellings for Alpha, Juliet and Whisky, because I learned the NATO alphabet from a children's book published in 1998. frankly Alfa isn't really much better, because my main association for that name is a company that builds cars that don't work

the people saying that the lower tiers are good names for pets are mostly correct (still don't call your cat Uniform though)

In fact, I love wordplay of all kinds. Teenage me was fascinated to learn all the types of figurative language there are in poetry and literature.

But paperwork and questionnaires are hard, because there's so much they don't state clearly. Or they don't leave room for enough nuance.

"List all the jobs you've had, with start and end dates." What if I don't remember the exact day or month? Is the year enough?

"Have you been suffering from blurred vision?" Well, if I take off my glasses the whole world is blurred, but I'm fairly sure that's not what the intake form at the optometrist is asking.

Or the infamous (and infuriatingly stereotypical) "Would you rather go to a library or a party?" What sort of party? Where? Who's there? I work at a library. Am I currently at the library for work or pleasure? Does it have a good collection?