> So, share with us your examples of nominative determinism. It would be > especially interesting to find someone whose name somehow related to our > involvement in the Vanagon mythos. well, i used to work for the water works and the sewer processing station, back in my younger days. we had ditch-diggers, or as we called 'em, hole-diggers, or just holers. the highest paid holer was the operator of the big backhoe. he was called one-holer. the next best holer was operator of the smaller backhoe. he was called two-holer. each one had a driver or assistant. they were called ass. holes. :) |
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