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HelpViola wasn't her problem ..
in reply to a message by clevelandkentevans
I think it was Throckmorton. Throckmorton is just so comically upper-crust, she'd sound funny even if her first name was Mary or Anne.
My guess is Simon made the joke because by that time, Viola was out of fashion and maybe had a hillbilly or bumpkin vibe?
That's why I don't think Viola has come back. I knew one Viola, she was a bit older than me and was from a seriously backwoods white family in Oklahoma, though I think they originally came from Arkansas. She had a brother named Claude and a sister named Kitty-Sue. In a school full of kids named Jennifer and Angie and Chris and Matt, they definitely stuck out.
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My guess is Simon made the joke because by that time, Viola was out of fashion and maybe had a hillbilly or bumpkin vibe?
That's why I don't think Viola has come back. I knew one Viola, she was a bit older than me and was from a seriously backwoods white family in Oklahoma, though I think they originally came from Arkansas. She had a brother named Claude and a sister named Kitty-Sue. In a school full of kids named Jennifer and Angie and Chris and Matt, they definitely stuck out.
Before you criticize a man, walk a mile in his shoes. That way, when you criticize him, you're a mile away and you have his shoes!
Steve Martin
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Viola, Claude and... Kitty-Sue??? Way to make your child stick out like a sore thumb within her own family lmao
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Throckmorton sign is also a medical term, although I'm not sure how old it is.
This message was edited 10/25/2021, 8:36 AM
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I had to look this up to find out what it was. It's more often called the John Thomas sign and seems to have been named after a physician named Thomas Bentley Throckmorton who was born in 1885 and died in 1961. It is exceedingly unlikely that the screenwriters or film audiences in 1938 would have known about this -- I doubt if there are hardly any screenwriters or members of a film audience who have no training in a medical profession who've heard of it today. So I think the problem with "Throckmorton" has to do with its sound and length, not an association with this discredited medical sign.
https://radiopaedia.org/articles/throckmorton-sign-pelvis?lang=us
https://radiopaedia.org/articles/throckmorton-sign-pelvis?lang=us
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Oh, good. Yeah, I figured that was kind of obscure, but it does add to why the name's unenviable.
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yes ...
The sound of it is funny; throck! Like choking on a fishbone. Or like hitting someone upside his head, more solidly than a thwack but not as solid as a thump.
There is a town and county in Texas called Throckmorton.
And I believe there's some castle or family or both in England called Throgmorton, which is even funnier.
The sound of it is funny; throck! Like choking on a fishbone. Or like hitting someone upside his head, more solidly than a thwack but not as solid as a thump.
There is a town and county in Texas called Throckmorton.
And I believe there's some castle or family or both in England called Throgmorton, which is even funnier.
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Throckmorton and Throgmorton are from an English place name which according to "A Dictionary of English Place-Names" by A. D. Mills is possibly from Old English for "farmstead by a pool with a beam bridge", with the "Throc" part meaning "beam bridge".
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looked up the medical sign ...
Now I know more than I ever wanted to know about penis location in relation to pelvic or leg injuries. I didn't actually want to know anything about it at all. lol
As I recall, John Thomas was slang for penis in "Lady Chatterley's Lover."
Now I know more than I ever wanted to know about penis location in relation to pelvic or leg injuries. I didn't actually want to know anything about it at all. lol
As I recall, John Thomas was slang for penis in "Lady Chatterley's Lover."
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In Lady Chat and beyond. I know an Englishman whose ln is Thomas and who has three given names. He once remarked that he was extremely grateful that none of them was John, and everyone nodded wisely!
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A friend of mine named his son John Thomas recently. I uh didn't say anything. But I thought thing.
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I agree with your statement than "In a school full of kids named Jennifer and Angie and Chris and Matt, they definitely stuck out." However, that is NOT what schools are full of today! That's a list of names that elementary schools would have been full of around 1990, thirty years ago.
Today elementary schools are full of kids named Sophia, Ava, Mason and Noah. :) Viola seems to me to fit in a bit better with those.
Today elementary schools are full of kids named Sophia, Ava, Mason and Noah. :) Viola seems to me to fit in a bit better with those.
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