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Canadians are “Spocking” $5 Bills, drawing Leonard Nimoy’s Face over Wilfrid Laurier’s
A breaking news update that has just reached BoFN Headquarters! Canadians are “Spocking” their $5 bills by drawing Leonard Nimoy‘s facial features over those of Wilfrid Laurier! This is magnificent! Perhaps inspired by yesterday’s touching tribute to the pointy-eared one, there … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged canada, entertainment, humor, humour, Leonard Nimoy, Spock, Star Trek
15 Comments
FNITN 80.5 Featuring George Stroumboulopoulos Looking at Things
Thanks to the intrepid Amb, I realized I made a HUGE mistake in last week’s FNITN. I left out a crucial piece of info we had been discussing earlier in the week. George Stroumboulopoulos will be the new host of … Continue reading
Posted in Funny Names In The News, Uncategorized
Tagged canada, CBC, funny, George Stroumboulopoulos, hockey, humor, humour, sports
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Robin Sparkles, as played by Cobie Smulders
Good morning, routine deprived readers of mine! Welcome to another always surprising funny names post from Amber. No, I’m not technically supposed to be here today – what else is new?!? Liz and I have traded days this week for … Continue reading
Posted in funny names in music, funny names in tv
Tagged Alan Thicke, canada, CBS, Cobie Smulders, How I Met Your Mother, humor, humour, love, marriage, Robin Sparkles
37 Comments
Macon Whoopee and the Funniest Hockey Team Names Of All Time
There are some fine people who have owned and founded professional sports teams. We know this because of the many amazing, amusing, thrilling, and just plain ridiculous names they have given to their teams. This is no less true of … Continue reading
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Tagged canada, funniest hockey team names, funny hockey team names, funny names, humor, humour
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Orland Kurtenbach and the Legend of Flin Flon, Manitoba
The Funny Names Blog appreciates people with funny names. It appreciates people with funny names who come from funnily named towns, play for strange sounding sports teams, and connect to cities in Canada named after science fiction characters even more. … Continue reading
Posted in Greatest hits
Tagged canada, flin flon, funny, funny names, hockey, humor, sci-fi, sports
36 Comments