Dennis the Dentist: on the unkillable wrongness of nominative determinism

If we’re analyzing our own names, with a bit of a stretch and some guesswork, my name could mean “king of the stars”.

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Germans are somewhat known for liking the, um… scatological arts. So you have that going for you, which is nice.

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Dr. Run Wang is also a urologist in Houston

Dr. Wang’s research interests are benign prostate hyperplasia, erectile dysfunction as a result of prostate cancer treatment, penile rehabilitation and male infertility.

http://www.uth.tmc.edu/urology/faculty/wangcv.html

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But your first name is Rob, and you’re not a thief?

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A thief? He can’t even open a safe.

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Eh. I’m a teacher and writer, so a literal translation of my name to mean “Adding to the trees” doesn’t work :slight_smile:

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I was named after a teddy bear my Ma had as a child, but my whole life I’ve felt that I could have and should have been a Surface to Air Missile.

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