Our resident sports expert Mark has informed me that the U.S. Open golf tournament is under way again. The Open, described by Wikipedia as being notable for its “pinched fairways” and “undulating greens” (golf seems to invite some poetry in its description), features some golfers with brilliant names. Among them, the following :
- Cody Gribble
- Joost Luiten
- Ollie Schniederjans
I’m delighted to tell you only one of these people is not American, but I’ll leave it to you to guess which.
Cody Gribble, future inventor of Gribble’s Breakfast Gribble. We hope.
Meanwhile on the basketball court, the Golden State Warriors won their first championship since 1975 in a six game series against the Cleveland Cavaliers this week, and I think no small part was played by the impressive collection of well named players on the roster. My personal favorites include Festus Ezeli, James Michael McAdoo, Andrew Bogut, Marreese Speights, and Ognjen Kuzmić .
Our congratulations to the whole group.
Meanwhile in Europe, various leaders are still bickering with Greece about how they should pay back their astronomical debts that everyone knows they will never in a million years be able to pay back. Germany is suggesting annual payments of 500 million gyro sandwiches, while the Greeks are refusing to budge and only offering thirty six servings of souvlaki. It’s a real pickle. Among those negotiating for extra feta cheese in the payments is Dutch Eurogroup President Jeroen Dijsselbloem.
Meanwhile in Georgia (the country, not the home state of Ollie Schniederjans), massive flooding caused many zoo animals to escape the Tbilisi Zoo, among them an enterprising penguin who made it all the way to the Azerbaijani border 40 miles away. The penguin was spotted at the border but slipped away from its pursuers to find a better life in Azerbaijan. There’s no funny name in this story, but since news reports didn’t give a name for the penguin I’ll name it Rufus A. Dinklefuss to qualify for this blog. Hey, it’s allowed by our standards. I don’t make the rules here.*
Baddie’s kind of a badass. This message brought to you by Chipotle.
And to wrap it all up, we go to the “most consistently captivating woman in her 80’s on social media“, Baddie Winkle of Knoxville, Tennessee. She’s been delighting Instagram users since her first image in 2014 in which she wore “a tie-dyed Grateful Dead bears T-shirt, jorts, and high socks covered with pink marijuana leaves.” We can see why the kids might find that interesting.
The Blog of Funny Names 
Wait, Arto–there are rules!!??
I was about to say NO, OF COURSE NOT! but then I read the small font. It’s always the small font that gets you. The nice thing is that after nearly four years of this blog, Arto has never enforced the rules, not once. So I think we’re good!
Yes. You’ll know when you’ve broken them too. You’ll know.
Uh oh… I’m now worried about getting demoted! You’re a hardcore bruiser-type. I will now live in constant fear of ever breaking the rules!
That’s some first rate FNitN, there.
I just want to know, what part does the bear play in a “Grateful Dead bears T-shirt”, and what is a jort?
The bitter thing about BoFN rules is how frantically and scrupulously I follow them, and how it doesn’t make any difference at all.
It’s like doing your tax returns for years then finding out there are no taxes.
Jorts are jean-shorts! 🙂
This image appears to be the one in question : Instagram
So to answer your question on what role the bears play : all of them.
Baddie is such a baddie,
if Joost wins, will people wonder if he’s juiced?
and I googled “Schniedergans” thinking that you had to have mixed up the i and e, and found out that once again, Arto is completely right!
I had to double triple check Schiederjans myself because it looks so wrong, but that’s just the beauty of Dutch names. They look so wrong which is what makes them so right.
Yes…. so often, things that are so wrong seem so right. That’s a good life philosophy, isn’t it?
No. No it isn’t.
Any penguin with that much gumption deserves an honorary awesome name, and automatic enshrinement into the BoFN hall of fame!
Seconded.
There are always taxes, Diddy, even when you make a teensy bit of Fabulous Moolah. That was a Wrestling Dame from the Wayback, by the way. Wasn’t that a great sports name, Arto? Oh, wait, that was fake. Never mind. And hey, your question also could have been, which of these Funny Names beat Eldrick “Tiger” Woods in the first round of the U.S. Open? All of them, I do believe! The former beast did shoot an 80 after all.
I think Dave might have written a post back in the 70’s about Moolah if I’m not mistaken. I’m probably mistaken.
How the mighty Tiger has fallen. Behind even the Joostiest of competition.
Spoiler alert rasslin’ fans. My turn at BoFN bat is Tuesday. Just sayin’, Arto …
Can’t wait. I don’t see Moolah covered in the archives so he’s fair game.
I looked under the tag “wrestling” and two posts come up : Warrior, and Phyllis Diller.
Make of that what you will.
I checked already, too. Better yet, Arto. Moolah is a SHE! A cross between Warrior and Phylis Diller, somewhat. 😮
Dude, Moolah is a SHE!! Wait… Mark already said that!
How did Phyllis Diller make it into the “wrestling” tag? What about Virgil Runnels Jr. or Kip Sopp?!?!?! Are you saying BoFN tags aren’t comprehensive all the time?!?
It’s sad to see what’s happened to Tiger. But it’s even sadder to think about the posts I wrote in the 70’s. They were sparse, to say the least!
I totally remember the Fabulous Moolah, and Mae Young!! They were awesome! I love when Mae Young was in her 60’s or 70’s and Mark Henry powerbombed her through a table. Or was it Bubba Ray Dudley? I forget…. but you know who would remember all of that… Rob. Where is that guy?!?
Come back on Tuesday for more on Moolah, King Dave!
What an amazing FNiTN finale. And for chipotle no less. I’m rooting for the penguin to win the U.S. Open. Joost in case.
Good move. I hear you’ll get pretty good odds on the betting sites for the penguin to take the cake. Or fish, I guess.
love the names, especially badie winkle, could not be a more fitting moniker for this wild flower child. just curious – are jorts the cousins of jeggings ? please advise –
I am not familiar with jeggings, to everyone’s great surprise, but I’m going to say yes.
Jeanish leggings )
Ugh! Jorts and tie-dyed shirts–that’s enough to burn my retinas and so outdated, she should go by Rip Van instead of Baddie. But what a lovely hodgepodge of names. Such a mobile penguin; did you know they have knees up inside their little torsos? I read that this weekend. And paying debt in sandwiches is okely-dokely with me. And as for Joost Luiten, I LOVED LOVED LOVED her song, “Queen of Hearts” when I was in 4th grade. I remember listening to the radio and trying to jot the words down, which I now will know forever. Oh, dang, that was Juice Newton. My bad.