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Touchdown! The Greatest Super Bowl Winner Names

Posted on February 8, 2016 by Arto

The glory. The adulation. The Budweiser®. These are just some of the great perks of winning the Super Bowl, like the Denver Broncos did in yesterday’s championship game. Winners’ names live forever as the top football achievers of their time. … Continue reading →

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Funny Names in the News vol. 116 with Rainy Dingle and Tasty Lasagna

Posted on January 29, 2016 by Arto

Happy Friday! It’s time again to go over the newspapers again and dig out the week’s very best names. First, we pop over to Italy, where a big soccer match between Inter Milan and Carpi had a dramatic ending. Inter was … Continue reading →

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Philly Swift Garcia and her Championship-caliber Father

Posted on January 26, 2016 by Dave

A short-but-sweet one for today, as your loyal boxing correspondent has also been serving a brief stint as a student-faculty academic liaison for the last several weeks, and life gets busy. But…. This weekend, Philadelphia-based Puerto-Rican boxer Danny “Swift” Garcia defeated California’s … Continue reading →

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Burgess Meredith, Everyone’s Favorite Grumpy Old Man

Posted on December 18, 2015 by Dave

Whew!!!! Just finished a cardiology final, and I snuck through by the skin of my teeth, which is a phrase that doesn’t make any medical sense, but then again neither do a lot of things. Case in point… I decided to … Continue reading →

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FNITN 114 – with Funny Bird Names and Dick Trickle and Norman Smurthwaite

Posted on December 11, 2015 by Dave

What’s crack-a-lackin’ folks? It’s another star-studded edition of Funny Names in the News. I told Arto I was gonna write this last night (and wrote those first two sentences then) but sleep happens and I’m writing this now as your morning … Continue reading →

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