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update: Looking like either Isaac Matthew or Micah Charles. And in keeping with current popularity here, if it's Micah Charles I may call him Lechmere sometimes when I am cross at him.
Pretty sure "Nob" was a place name, but the others are all real names of people.
Quite correct, GUT. But far be it from me to let a geographic fact spoil a good double-entendre The others are all real personal names, as you rightly say.
BTW, my favourite biblical name is Maher-Shalal-Hash-Baz, but that's not particularly funny.
Forget the Bible.
What about Darius Cyrus Zoroaster ?
Darius and Cyrus both appear in the Bible, as I'm sure you know, and "Zostrianos" turns up in the gnostic scriptures of Nag-Hammadi (although that probably doesn't count )
Darius and Cyrus both appear in the Bible, as I'm sure you know, and "Zostrianos" turns up in the gnostic scriptures of Nag-Hammadi (although that probably doesn't count )
True, but I'm not sure all names that appear in the Bible belong to what we call biblical names.
We have one Pontius on boards. Perhaps a Shishak will register soon. (I gave my son a Pharaoh name, btw.)
Dieudonné, the highly controversial humorist, called one of his son Judas.
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