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When You KNOW You Are the Right Man for the Job
Posted: Mon Jul 06, 2020 1:04 am
by Bicycle Bill
30-plus year veteran with the Sun Prairie (WI) Volunteer Fire Department.
-"BB"-
When You KNOW You Are the Right Man for the Job
Posted: Mon Jul 06, 2020 1:13 am
by RayThom
I thought the other man was better.
Re: When You KNOW You Are the Right Man for the Job
Posted: Mon Jul 06, 2020 2:02 am
by Joe Guy
Does he have sons named Jose and Hosebee?
Re: When You KNOW You Are the Right Man for the Job
Posted: Mon Jul 06, 2020 3:09 am
by ex-khobar Andy
New Scientist (UK weekly which occupies roughly the ecological niche filled by Scientific American here) coined the term 'nominative determinism' for this phenomenon back in the 1980s and people keep coming up with new examples. Apparently what started it all was a paper on incontinence in the British Journal of Urology by A. J. Splatt and D. Weedon.
My favorite example was always a Swedish motorcycle racer (a good one) called Bernt Persson. Thankfully he never lived up (down??) to his name and retired unscathed.