cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/9969406

I saw a couple of fun ones somewhere else, and it got me interested. My mom calls her’s: Mr de Vries

other’s i found:

  • William the Sucker
  • Kirby & Yoshi
  • Ragnar
  • Sir Suckalot
  • Wool-E
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    11 months ago

    One I know of is called telamiina. It’s Finnish for anti-tank mine.

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    11 months ago

    Mine’s Pertti, which is a Finnish name that’s vaguely related to Germanic names such as Albert or Robert. It’s not super popular nowadays so it evokes a mental image of a 50 year old dude

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      5 months ago

      Edit: my app responded to the wrong comment lmfao, gonna leave this here so it’s not a ghost comment

      Ffs it keeps doing it, I give up