Joooohn Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt,
His name is my name too!
Whenever we go out,
The people always shout:
"There goes John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt!"

[–] MLRL_Commie@hexbear.net 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Wtf is this lol. Is this what American culture is? It's actually kinda cute for once

[–] HumanBehaviorByBjork@hexbear.net 7 points 2 months ago

My understanding is it originates with german-american vaudeville in the early 20th century.

[–] Acute_Engles@hexbear.net 12 points 2 months ago

It's a really old song

[–] REEEEvolution@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Schmidt

One of the most common family names in Germany.

[–] Acute_Engles@hexbear.net 4 points 2 months ago

I was doing a bit

[–] Vingst@hexbear.net 23 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Æthelwulf

Æthelstan

Æthelswith

Æthelbald

Æthelberht

Æthelred

Alfred

[–] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 13 points 2 months ago

Norman conquest :bop:

[–] MineDayOff@hexbear.net 21 points 2 months ago

Adolf

[–] FourteenEyes@hexbear.net 20 points 2 months ago

Erasmas

Sophocles

Ea-Nasir

Beucephalis

[–] SuperZutsuki@hexbear.net 20 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Bobson

Sleve

[–] Bobson_Dugnutt@hexbear.net 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

We're keeping it alive in the Dugnutt family. I'm actually Bobson Dugnutt IV.

[–] electric_nan@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Dugnutt you say? Of the BingBong Dugnutts?

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[–] pencil_nerd@mander.xyz 19 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Bertha

[–] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 21 points 2 months ago (1 children)

So many of these names, imagine looking down at your newborn infant, the warmth and preciousness of newly created life changing you forever and then you say 'Bertha'

[–] HumanBehaviorByBjork@hexbear.net 17 points 2 months ago (1 children)

no one's ever done that intentionally. the doctor asked the mother what they wanted to name the kid but she was so tired she thought the doctor asked what's she's been doing for the last 6 hours.

[–] CloutAtlas@hexbear.net 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Extremely NY Eye-talian voice

Eyyy, I'ma givin' birtha 'ere!

[–] Bobson_Dugnutt@hexbear.net 6 points 2 months ago

Gen-z person seeing Orly Taitz:

It's giving birther

[–] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 14 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Godfrey

[–] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Gertrude

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[–] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

My work BFF has a geology degree and I legit call him that from time to time. I've got an ongoing bit where I am juggling several secret lives and have 2 families I'm trying to keep hidden from one another and part of it is calling people.the wrong name on purpose or pretending to forget their name. I've been there like 3 and a half years and the joke is that I'm basically a drifter stuck in a rut and in denial about it. It's a complex bit but 'errrrr....Mr. geodude there...' had been a line. We've got a server who's working in a teaching degree who spends months at a time off and the running gag for him is he gets fired and spends 2 months begging for his job back and gets rehired each time and I give him a new name and act like he's a new hire each time. He was Marcus last time, I'm thinking Siegfried for March. I have a skill for giving people totally normal names that are really funny cause they don't match the person. Nomenclative deteimism is sorts real. Like someone named Todd for sure owns a bucket hat.

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[–] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'm at a point where false modesty is pointless, I am absolutely hilarious in person. I've got bits down and have a guy who works with me and plays the straight man amazingly and the rest is extremely deadpan situational wit, puns, song parodies based around whatever food I'm making if it matches a rhyme and the main one, absolutely dehydrated sarcasm that I can only get away with because everything else I say is a really sweaty joke and those hit like sniper fire amidst a mortar barrage of the rest. The Simpsons and Seinfeld are on like 6 times a day with a basic cable package when I was a kid, it's a hard thing to bring to something like stand up and improv comedy is a cesspool, but give me a sketch troupe or as a dream, let me write for and with the kids in the hall. That's really the core of my jokes.

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[–] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That might be the nicest thing someone has said about my joke making just cause you analyzed what I'm doing damn well. I've got Bender from Futurama lovable scamp appeal, so I'd be breaking kayfabe to be self deprecating in certain situations, I have reminding everyone that I'm secretly dumb as hell any time I fuck up part of an order (I work the window in aa kitchen). While doing buts it's my job to take take fall by being too confident when it's my turn. If you're an rlm fan, I'm a Mike and I have my own rich Evans at work and we got thatt rhythm. And then there's just asking people Eric Andre interview questions during super quiet periods. I was recently impressed by a guy who when the place was empty and it has been dead silence and chopping forever he just deadpanned "So, no judgement, what's your favorite race?" He's Cuban, I was the only white guy there, and the other 2 there were Japanese and Phillipino. I felt like a martial arts master passing on a secret move. How to read a room in a way to tell a potentially terrible joke in a way that is situationally funny as hell.

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[–] chauncey@hexbear.net 13 points 2 months ago (4 children)

What happened to all the folks named Cody

[–] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 14 points 2 months ago

Everyone named Chip.died in y2k

[–] Rom@hexbear.net 6 points 2 months ago

They're all running showdys

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[–] courier8377@hexbear.net 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Why can't I name my posts these anymore

[–] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 9 points 2 months ago

They aged out

[–] buckykat@hexbear.net 10 points 2 months ago

Engelbert

[–] gramxi@hexbear.net 10 points 2 months ago

Wolfgang gang

[–] coeliacmccarthy@hexbear.net 9 points 2 months ago

Terd

[–] GnastyGnuts@hexbear.net 9 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I was just thinking "Simon" has aged out, or at least I haven't met a single Simon under 50 in my life

[–] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 9 points 2 months ago

I'm a big castlevania guy and have liked that name for a bit

[–] CptKrkIsClmbngThMntn@hexbear.net 5 points 2 months ago

I know one or two gen Z Simons and a Simeon to boot! Maybe a less common name but not really archaic like Ethel or something.

[–] blight@hexbear.net 8 points 2 months ago

Archibald

[–] came_apart_at_Kmart@hexbear.net 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Harold
Bill
Jimothy
Biffenauld
Larry
Marge

[–] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Bill is down but my bills are up!

Harold may have an uptick due to Harry potter adults who are a bit more capable of subtlety or as a result of one partner bargaining a Harold out of a Harry. God fucking knows my cousin named 2 of her kids after Harry potter people.

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[–] SoyViking@hexbear.net 3 points 2 months ago

Isembard

Slobodan

Ragnhild

Octavian

[–] ProfessorOwl_PhD@hexbear.net 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

My dad wanted to call my sister Martha but luckily my mum ignored him.

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