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If you know a girl named Mercedes, she might be named after a car company which was named after someone's daughter. https://www.mercedesbenzchicago.com/what-does-the-mercedes-b...
Page is an aptonym. There's a reason it's not called BrinRank. French Fries. Crapper toilet.
Currying after Haskell Brooks Curry
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I don't believe it would have been called Taco Smith. It happened to be that the dudes last name made sense in the context of a dinner bell being rung for tacos.
Taco smith would be an interesting restaurant, maybe using an anvil as a logo instead of a bell
I find this post and comments to be surprisingly delightful. I'll aggregate the scattered gems in the comments here: - Sideburns : Named after the American Civil War general Ambrose Burnside. - Heaviside function (a mathematical step function) : named after Oliver Heaviside - The Children's python (animal) : Named after John George Children. - Snowflake, AZ : Named after Erastus Snow and William Jordon Flake. - Lake…
Sadly, I can't edit the comment anymore. Here are a few more. - German Chocolate Cake - Named after the English-American chocolate maker Samuel German. - Baker's Chocolate (popular American brand of baking chocolate) - Named after Dr. William Baker - Loop subdivision (CG term) - Named after its inventor Charles Loop. - French Hill (neighborhood in Jerusalem) - Named after British general John French. (Disputed) - Mob…
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It behooves those parents to teach them the proper verb.
“Is the FBI in the habit of cleaning up after multiple murders?!!” “Of course. Why do you think it’s run by a man called Hoover?” This was a joke in the ‘80s Clue movie; albeit probably funnier to the English writer and the English actor saying the lines, as Hoover as a generecized trademark for vacuum cleaner is more popular there.
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You fell for a Snopes TRoLL. They made that story up. Mobile homes are called that because they can move. There was never a mobile home company called "sweet homes", and the industry does not originate in Mobile.
The ultimate troll entry for me on Snopes is: > So how did this claim arise? In a 1993 PC Professional article, columnist Lisa Holst wrote about the ubiquitous lists of “facts” that were circulating via e-mail and how readily they were accepted as truthful by gullible recipients. To demonstrate her point, Holst offered her own made-up list of equally ridiculous “facts,” among which was the statistic cited above about…
PageRank was named after Larry Page? MySQL is named after the one of co-founder's daughter, My? I knew the Debian. but this is mind boggling.
MySQL's fork, MariaBD, is also named after one os Widenius' daughters.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Widenius#Personal_life