cm0002@lemy.lol to Memes@sopuli.xyz · 3 days agoFirst president of USAlemy.lolimagemessage-square6fedilinkarrow-up1375arrow-down12
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minus-squareAeronMelon@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up42·3 days agoKid: “They sure had weird names back then.”
minus-squareTheTechnician27@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up22·edit-22 days agoAnd to be fair, “Getty” isn’t unbelievable at all for the given name of a Founding Father: Gunning Bedford Jr. Elbridge Gerry (fuck this guy in particular btw) Button Gwinnett Titus Hosmer Francis Lightfoot Lee Gouverneur Morris Robert Treat Paine Charles Cotesworth Pinckney Richard Dobbs Spaight And plenty of non-Founding Fathers had similarly peculiar names. If “Images” weren’t such a common English word, I’d say even that would be arguable.
minus-squareFiskFisk33@startrek.websitelinkfedilinkarrow-up7·2 days agoWith british surnames like Garlick, Cockburn, Smellie and Gotobed existing, Images seems quite plausible really.
Kid: “They sure had weird names back then.”
And to be fair, “Getty” isn’t unbelievable at all for the given name of a Founding Father:
And plenty of non-Founding Fathers had similarly peculiar names. If “Images” weren’t such a common English word, I’d say even that would be arguable.
With british surnames like Garlick, Cockburn, Smellie and Gotobed existing, Images seems quite plausible really.
“Back then” meaning anything before 2015