Grenadier
Since: Dec, 2010
May 28th 2011 at 8:58:01 AM
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I'd argue the image is JAFAAC, but that would just be me being a douche.
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Camacan
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Since: Jan, 2001
Dec 24th 2011 at 3:50:12 AM
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I think you mean JALAAC. I think you would have a fair case in Image Pickin'
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These Real Life examples do not appear to be examples. Not single letter names. They appear to be single letter initials as part of names.
- Real Life inversion: Johnny Cash's name at birth was was "J. R. Cash;" his parents couldn't agree on a name, but they had agreed on initials. The Air Force, however, would not let him enlist without a "proper" first name (meaning, not some initials), and he legally changed his name to John R. Cash; when he got out of the Air Force and started performing, he took "Johnny" as a stage name.
- Real life example that gets abbreviated down to a single letter: Coach K, the head basketball coach at Duke University. Probably because most of them couldn't pronounce "Coach Krzyzewski".
- Russell T Davies added the T to differentiate from radio presenter Russell Davies. It doesn't actually stand for anything.
- David X Cohen of futurama fame added the X to his name because the writer's guild of america could have only one writer under David Cohen, so he added an X because it sounded "science-fictiony".
- Former UN secretary-general U Thant isn't actually a Real Life example: U is a Burmese honorific roughly equivalent to "mister", not a name.
- Two real-life examples are Harry S Truman and Ulysses S Grant - both of their middle names are just S.
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