names and personalities

[Preach]

you know how when you think the name "dorothy" you have a character in mind, right? and when someone say "john goodman" you imagine this person, right? for me, dorothy puts an image of a farmers wife in my head. specifically a farmer from the carolina-area. john goodman sounds like a vice president or staff chief. think about it though, tina.. what do you think a tina would look like? i'm imagining this blonde teenager.

the point is that whenever someone say a name you have an image of what you would expect someone with that name to look like, right? well i have stumbled across a marvelous discovery. i have found a name for which i can not imagine a namebearer. no matter how hard i try, i have no clue what a bob looks like. i wish my name was bob. do you have an idea what a bob looks like?

 

[linx]

nope.

 

[PuffnScruff]

you know how when you think the name "dorothy" you have a character in mind, right? and when someone say "john goodman" you imagine this person, right? for me, dorothy puts an image of a farmers wife in my head. specifically a farmer from the carolina-area. john goodman sounds like a vice president or staff chief. think about it though, tina.. what do you think a tina would look like? i'm imagining this blonde teenager.

the point is that whenever someone say a name you have an image of what you would expect someone with that name to look like, right? well i have stumbled across a marvelous discovery. i have found a name for which i can not imagine a namebearer. no matter how hard i try, i have no clue what a bob looks like. i wish my name was bob. do you have an idea what a bob looks like?

when i think of john goodman i think of this man

from the show, roseane, the flinstones movie, and he played the speaker of the house & president of the united states on the west wing.

when i think tina, i think tina turner.
when i think bob, i think about a guy i knew in high school, when i was a freshmen, this guy bob was a senior, for some reason this guy thought i was cool, it was like dazed and confused where that floyd became friends with mitch kramer.

but when i think about the name frank, nothing comes to mind...

 

[bigmack]

when i think of bob i think of some redneck farmer hillbilly fuckin his cousin

 

[Preach]

^^
but thats the thing though.. through all the movies you have seen, books you have read, and so on.. have the name bob ever been used for a farmer? i only remember one movie where bob is being used, and thats the last samurai. obviously i dont imagine a japaneese samurai that looks like a monkey when i think of the name bob. i agree with frank as well, it's one of those names whose namebearer you can't imagine.

 

[Preach]

oh and lmao btw, i remember john goodman now but i didn't when i made this thread. i just sort of came up with it lol.

 

[bigmack]

^^
but thats the thing though.. through all the movies you have seen, books you have read, and so on.. have the name bob ever been used for a farmer? i only remember one movie where bob is being used, and thats the last samurai. obviously i dont imagine a japaneese samurai that looks like a monkey when i think of the name bob. i agree with frank as well, it's one of those names whose namebearer you can't imagine.

i think this dates back to around 96 when i used to have this hillbilly computer game, and you're suppose to kill all the hicks that you see. and theres a "boss" named bob, he just pops out and says "your cousins over here".

i never had a friend named bob, so when someone says bob that pops into my head.

 

[Preach]

lmao