Huub!
My company's Dutch factory has an engineer with the first name of Huub. Is this a nickname for Huybert (Hubert), or a name in its own right? (Nan would say "just call him", but that's nosy and I trust you guys' answers more than his hypothetical parents'.)
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Maube he's is named after the huubcaaps your company produces for its industrial fooorklifts.
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Ah, PreeepusLufs,Ve hadn't tried dee site in Svedish Chef before, eh?Since many years, ve don't yoose huubcaaps on de foorrklifts no more. Venever a vheel seal vould go bad, the huubcaaps vould get all feeelthy vit greece.
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"Maube he's named after the huubcaaps your company produces for its industrial fooorklifts."Huubcaaps that go with Daividh's cargills, no doubt.-- Nanaea
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"Aroint thee, witch!" (I always wanted to say that. Will S. is SO klasshy!)And thanks for the REAL explanation below.
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Related SpamLady Macbeth:
Thy bad camel
Calm by death
Cymbal death
Hated cymbal
Lambda Tyche
Cad by Hamlet
Ably matched, etc etc
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"Cathy Bedlam" :)-- Nanaea
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Somehow, I never pictured you as a "rump-fed ronyon", Daividh. Although an anagram of that is a "furry porn demon". :)Glad that website was helpful, but I'm surprised you hadn't found it already, yourself, with the way you're always promoting Google. I'll tell ya my secret: I went to Google and used the keywords "Huub" and "namen". ;)-- Nanaea
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So "namen" is the secret, huh? Which reminds me: I read a coupla weeks back about a major survey that was done recently in Japan, asking 1,000s of people to name the greatest achievements, developments, or inventions of the 20th century.The automobile? The bullet train? Polio vaccine? The Kawasaki torpedo bomber? Nope -- their choices were: instant noodles, video games, and Akira Kurosawa.(I have this terrifying image of Toshiro Mifune, dressed as a samurai, slurping pork ramen and playing Final Fantasy XXVII. The mind boggles.)Of course, it's easy to feel superior (the Nipponese and French have done it for centuries). But what do you suppose AMERICANS would come up with in a similar survey? I don't want to think about it.
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THIS IS A GRAT SITE BUT YOU COULD ADD MORE THINGS TO IT
SO WHEN DOING THIS KIND OF STUFF WE HAVE MORE TO CHOOSE FROM
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I concur that Kurosawa is one of Japan's milestones of the century. Polls usually capture the least common denominator of mediocrity, and its cool that Akira is included.I my choices would include disposable diapers.
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No argument at all from me on Kurosawa, either, altho I've probably let slip in the past that I'm more than a bit of a Kurosawa buff and Mifune as well; they were a cinematic package deal for thirty years, after all. But INSTANT NOODLES? Would we include "pudding cups" in our top three? (probably...)
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20th Century Greats"...their choices were: instant noodles, video games, and Akira Kurosawa."@@@@ That's very interesting, Daividh."Of course, it's easy to feel superior (the Nipponese and French have done it for centuries). But what do you suppose AMERICANS would come up with in a similar survey? I don't want to think about it."@@@@ But you did ask, nevertheless! I dunno what AMERICANS might have chosen, but I think I can tell you what JAPANESE ANAGRAMMISTS would have chosen:Dissonant Elton, aged movies, and the Amerasian ovum-wok.-- Nanaea
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I abdicate as "King of Anagram" and willingly offer my throne to you :))))))
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No way! I am merely Marsha Stephanie Riggs, while you are Adam Gongar. :)-- Nanaea
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"I'm the gasping harasser" 'n' "Random ga-ga" :))
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Here's at least one anagram which might make Daividh smile..."Anagram God"="a damn aggro" :)-- Nanaea
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Too right, mate! :))
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You'd make an interesting case study Daividh, for cyber-psychologists intrigued with people such as you who possess an overwhelming compulsion to post bizarre, 4-letter expletives from time to time... :)Try this website:http://home.hetnet.nl/~petval/While Altavista's wonderful Babelfish doesn't yet conveniently provide a Dutch to English translator, I was able to figure out from an online Dutch dictionary that the definition for "Huub" on this site does seem to point to the name being a variation of (or nickname for) "Hubert".-- Nanaea
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Thanks! That's the first decent Dutch name site I've seen, even if I've got a make a lot of logical translation leaps from English and German. Even answered a couple of other questions I was planning to ask but hadn't.(Wonder if it'll translate into Redneck? Rejdnekk?)
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