A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:
If you made it this far, showerthoughts is accepting new mods. This community is generally tame so its not a lot of work, but having a few more mods would help reports get addressed a little sooner.
Whats it like to be a mod? Reports just show up as messages in your Lemmy inbox, and if a different mod has already addressed the report, the message goes away and you never worry about it.
A few more famous people with 2 first names:
Hamilton is a last name. I won't doubt that there are some people who have it first (not checking), but they probably have two last names.
probably have two last names.
Savage.
Bob Ross
Reminds me of that Simon & Garfunkel lyric, along the lines of
...he's so unhip
when you say Dylan
he thinks you're talking about Dylan Thomas!
Whoever he was.
Today is the day I saw Missy Elliot on the same list as Anne Frank lol
Jason alexander
That's a stage name. I assume some of the others on the list are too.
didn't even think of that lol
Michael Jordan?
Ricky Bobby? Lol
I can think of a few others - George Lucas, Wallace Shaen, Jerry Lewis, Steve Martin
How about a threefer with
Jerry
Lee
Lewis!
James
Tiberius
Kirk
James
Earl
Ray
Jamie
Lee
Curtis
Is Jackson a "first" name? Sure, I understand that some people use it as a first name, but I would say someone named Jackson Smith has two last names.
Michael Jordan though, that's legit.
Jackson is a patronymic last name: Jack's son.
Smith is an aptronymic last name: a smith.
So yeah, bang on.
I'd love to know why you know these terms. I'm a huge etymology nerd and I eat this stuff up.
This entire thread begs the question, why do some people have a first name for a last name? Is it just a less-clear patronym?
I too am an etymology geek, I had to look up "aptronym" (I already knew there was a word for it, but couldn't remember it) but already knew "patronym". I can occasionally work out the approximate Latin roots of words and take a stab at what to search for.
Regarding names' positions moving around... that's just people. People name their children all sorts of stupid things that eventually become normal.
There are a bunch of aptronymic last names, especially in English culture. The Baker family, the Tanner family, the Shoemaker family etc.
Don't ask about the Dickinsons.
Either Thomas Jefferson had two first names, or Jefferson Davis had two last names.
Yeah but they’re shitty old American politicians. They’re not really that well known outside of America.
As a non American, Thomas Jefferson is pretty famous as historical figures go.
Keith David
Lebron James
LeBron ain't no first name
Yeah he has a single name like Oprah but in 2 parts
Abraham Lincoln
Wait what’s his last name then..
Ghengis Khan, Julius Caesar, etc.
Khan is a first name?
That is not showing correctly for me. You can try this instead:
Paul Ryan. But yeah probably not as known.
Any ____son is a last name. FYI the etymology is son of Jack, son of ____.
Any ____son is a last name. FYI the etymology is son of Jack, son of ____.
There's something similar in Slavic languages with suffixes like -ovic, -ic, -icz, -ich, etc. So "Djokovic" means "little son of Djoko."
Jesus Christ...