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Nintendo's CEO's last name is Bowser.

Our AG is named "Barr" (Pun on a Bar association)

Is there a cool collection of these somewhere? These are the only evidence I feel that we're in a simulation and the engineer is fucking with us.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aptronym#Notable_examples

Incredible.

The DHS secretary spokesperson with the entire Portland brouhaha is named Chad Wolf. If that wasn't a meme name I don't know what is.

Not spokesperson. Unconstitutionally appointed "Acting" Secretary of Homeland Security.

And Anthony Weiner, well...

The most famous weatherman in Finland is Pekka Pouta, which literally means "Pekka Fairweather"

https://youtu.be/8sS7-CfPn6Q

I knew a gynecologist named Dr. Hole. To be fair there are at least three ironic specialties he could have gone into.

There's a urologist in Austin, Texas named Richard Chopp.

I believe there was a man named Armond Hammer who was the CEO of the company that owns Arm&Hammer (the baking soda company) at one point.

Armand Hammer wasn't the CEO, just a minority shareholder and board member. He wanted to buy the company because he liked the name and apparently already used an arm and hammer as his personal insignia. (Fun fact: His grandson is Armie Hammer, the actor, who was named after him.)

I notice that in my home state, the head of more than one auto dealership had the same last name as the brand of car sold by the dealership, for reasons that were coincidences.

I wonder if there is some kind of unconscious social bias at work in these cases?

If your name matches a brand of a car it might be rational to sell that brand; assuming it's otherwise a completely arbitrary choice, it probably helps name recognition and memory, since some customers will probably mention it as a mildly interesting anecdote to their friends and family.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nominative_determinism

Head of the Sydney Water Board Union was named Sydney Lake.

The COO of Starbucks has the last name Brewer

Arsene Wenger, former Arsenal manager

The Matrix is real.

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