Fetchnames - explain yours! :-)
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Nov 2020
9:03am, 25 Nov 2020
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Wriggling Snake
That is quite a impressive list.
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Nov 2020
9:16am, 25 Nov 2020
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theOtherRichard
It's hard to believe these days* but back in the dark ages when I grew up, it was compulsory to be called Richard. And that meant that wherever I went - school, work, football club, whatever - there was always a Richard there before me. I was never the oldest; the coolest; the smartest; the fastest; or the best**. I was just the other one. * We Richards are not even in the top 100 boys names these days. ** I can be the most self-deprecating. Or the most unremarkable, perhaps. |
Nov 2020
9:27am, 25 Nov 2020
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HappyG(rrr)
Lol, cool name Richard. You are #1Richard in Fetch! (or are there others). Wasn't it 12-1400s when Kings were called Richard? Not exactly the 70s?!  G
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Nov 2020
9:28am, 25 Nov 2020
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HappyG(rrr)
By the way, the automated process of adding names that um or pedro(?) did may have truncated your explanation, if it was a longer one. So go to the article (linked in sidebar) if you want to check that your explanation is there in full? (Like Flatlander and others have done). Thanks. G
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Nov 2020
9:32am, 25 Nov 2020
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um
Yes HG - the original list was from a text extract from the thread from Fetch - then manipulated, filtered, sorted and formatted in Excel. So some longer ones & also some with special characters in them were possibly truncated.
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Nov 2020
9:53am, 25 Nov 2020
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theOtherRichard
Yes G, the dark ages don't quite extend back to the King Richard heyday, but I think* that we were in the top 10 quite regularly back in my youth. And it seems there are 76 Richard/Rich usernames on Fetch (including surnames) so I'm unlikely to have been the first one here. * citation needed |
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Nov 2020
9:57am, 25 Nov 2020
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theOtherRichard
Citation provided (ONS website): That's quite a fall from grace. I wonder what we did? ons.gov.uk |
Nov 2020
10:12am, 25 Nov 2020
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MazH
clearly a very naughty boy Richard, oh wait, no that was Brian......
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Nov 2020
10:15am, 25 Nov 2020
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HappyG(rrr)
Is it the increasing influence and the other meaning of "Dick" from US of A?!
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Nov 2020
10:16am, 25 Nov 2020
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CumbriAndy
tOR - it could have been worse. I recall observing an exchange in (probably) the mid/late-80's between two friends. Friend 1: 'We've got too many Richards - you'll have to be Jeff' Friend 2 (Richard/Jeff): 'Fair enough - s'pose it makes me unique' To the best of my knowledge, said individual is known as Jeff to this day. |
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