These strange old Quaker names are even better than the names in Fighting Baseball

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Did some porn actor names get mixed up in here?

Love Beer

Early Supreme Court justice?

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Reboing

Or Maybe just half a reboing. The Fighting Baseball commentary does add a new angle.

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No thank you, I’d rather not Experience Strettell. I don’t think my health insurance covers that.

And Charity Kill sounds like something out of Robocop or Running Man.

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Revolution Sixsmith

that’s a good name; I think I’ll take it

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Where are Key and Peele when you need em

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Rich Whale was a regular in Ye Olde Vegas

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17th-century puritan If-Christ-Had-Not-Died-For-Thee-Thou-Hadst-Been-Damned Barebone scowls at these barely-religious names.

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Prognosis Bleak

Thou art a wretched sinner, utterly unworthy of God’s love. A fountain of pollution is deep within thou nature and thou livith as a winter tree; unprofitable, fit only to be hewn down and burned. Steep thy life in prayer, and hope that God sees fit to show mercy on thy corrupted soul. Deliver this papist dog forthwith to the magistrates of the court assembled in the shire in which he dwells!

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Thou-Shalt-Not-Commit-Adultery Pulsifer

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Also, Robert Were Fox. Is that Robert Were-Fox, or Robert Were [a] Fox, which implies he got better.

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MagicFox, “Robert Were Fox?”
Robert, “There fox!”

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Boring but correct answer is that his mother’s surname was Were, his father’s Fox.

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