• wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    9 days ago

    I worked at a gym doing sign ups and check ins (before it was all fully automated), and quickly lost count. One that still sticks out to me though is Thomas T. Thomas. Pretty sure the middle name was also Thomas.

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      9 days ago

      One of my oldest friends had a dad named Thomas. He apparently wanted to name his child Thomas, but the mother disagreed, so he demanded that the middle name of that and any future children be Thomas.

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        9 days ago

        These people annoy me!

        I’ve been doing my family tree, and part of my family is from West Wales. There’s a Thomas Thomas, named after his grandfather, and his father is Philip Thomas, who was named after his grandfather. They’ve also sprinkled a handful of boys named John Thomas through the later generations, with one being named after his own brother! 😫

        To make things worse, there’s another family who are around the same age as Thomas Thomas, and the two Thomas (Thomases?) married women with the same first name, and gave their daughters the same first name too! They even live in the same small town! 😳😅

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          Was the brother lost or were there just two people walking around the house with the same name, doomed to be confused every time someone summoned one of them?

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            No, they weren’t quite that bad 😂

            The older one passed away as a child, so they named the younger one after him, about a year later. I’m thinking that the name might be unlucky though, the younger one died in the first world war, not long after having two children. Neither of his kids were named John, and they both lived long, happy lives…