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CaptainWacky
I want to smell dark matter
HOW COME NO ONE HAS THE SURNAME "FUCKFACE"?
Eggs Mayonnaise
All In With The Nuts
Some porn stars like to use the surname Blue.
But Red just telegraphs that the person needs a topical cream applied somewhere.
But Red just telegraphs that the person needs a topical cream applied somewhere.
SAUSAGEMAN
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Loktar
Internet God and Defender of Park Benches
Big Dick McGee
If you don't know, now ya know
Bunny Bleu was a porn star in the 80's. She wasn't too hot, and I remeber she seemed to be dumb as a box of hammers.
bad dog
RIP DOG.
I have a friend named Mike Blue and he has a son now thats Mike blue JR.
CaptainWacky
I want to smell dark matter
Lucky Junior.
Dr Dave
pillzlol
Bunny Bleu was a porn star in the 80's. She wasn't too hot, and I remeber she seemed to be dumb as a box of hammers.
Not that good looking really.
Donovan
beer, I want beer
In all seriousness, part of the reason is that European surnames were gradually invented as descriptives of the person or family they named. People called Brown were tan, brown-haired, etc I.e John Brown literally was "That brown guy John". White also meant hair color or complexion, while Green usually meant a location where the person lived, like Joe of the Green Hill would become eventually Joe Green, or Joe Hill etc. White also could mean someone from Wight, in England.
Gray and Black, however, weren't colors at all despite the coincidence. Most evidence points to Black being an altered form of Blake, which itself came from a version of someone who was "by the lake" (an extremely abbreviated timeline here) and Gray was a bastardized version of someone "Of the Cray".
Finally, a lot of name origins were confused by the habitual "americanization" of ethnic names on immigrants to the US. frequently names were arbitrarily assigned which only barely resembled the original version. Black is one like this, as there aren't many instances of it before the 1890's when immigration from overseas started to really jump.
Gray and Black, however, weren't colors at all despite the coincidence. Most evidence points to Black being an altered form of Blake, which itself came from a version of someone who was "by the lake" (an extremely abbreviated timeline here) and Gray was a bastardized version of someone "Of the Cray".
Finally, a lot of name origins were confused by the habitual "americanization" of ethnic names on immigrants to the US. frequently names were arbitrarily assigned which only barely resembled the original version. Black is one like this, as there aren't many instances of it before the 1890's when immigration from overseas started to really jump.
