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[–] Xanthrax@lemmy.world 199 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] 69420@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Your name is Lizardman Lizardman?

[–] PrefersAwkward@lemmy.world 30 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Well, if you have just 1 name, then technically, it's your first, middle, and last name at the same time

[–] dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I can get behind it being a first and last name simultaneously, but can it be a middle name if it’s not surrounded evenly on either side by another name.

I guess we could say it is equally surrounded by nothing and therefore in the middle. I’m overthinking!!

[–] PrefersAwkward@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

I see your point. It's much weirder to say one thing is also the middle thing. It's probably much safer to say you have a middle name only if you have an odd number of names greater than one. You safely (IMO) have two middle names if you have an even number of names greater than two.

[–] ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

The business cards are just ridiculous.

Lizardman Lizardman, Lizardman

[–] Xanthrax@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

The captions are off, originally it was, "Name, race, and occupation?" It was the only picture I could find, though.

[–] stevedice@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 week ago

Wait until you find out about the Mario brothers.

[–] MimicJar@lemmy.world 82 points 1 week ago (3 children)

You're a mean one, Mr. Grinch.

So likely his name, possibly only his last name.

[–] konalt@lemmy.world 32 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Maybe that's meant in a derogatory way though

[–] MimicJar@lemmy.world 42 points 1 week ago (2 children)

The entire song is derogatory. If you sing, "You're a butthole, Mr. Stinky", then you haven't identified who you're singing about, unless someone is actually named Mr. Stinky.

[–] Fiivemacs@lemmy.ca 22 points 1 week ago (1 children)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_Edmunds

Raymond Edmunds (born 12 March 1944 at Queen Victoria Hospital, Melbourne, Australia), also known as the Donvale Rapist and Mr. Stinky

[–] MimicJar@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

Well I'll give you that one. I guess it's possible the Grinch, having lived nearby for a while, earned that as his nickname or also know as. Still not his job or ethnicity.

[–] nicknonya@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 week ago

does this imply that the song wasn't actually talking about the Grinch and he just projected onto it?

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 1 week ago

Full name Chauncey Tiffany Grinch.

[–] bstix@feddit.dk 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yes, his first name is Ethan.

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[–] wiLD0@lemmy.world 62 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

‘Grinch’ is a holistic integration of multi-categorical nomenclatures.

[–] gndagreborn@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago

Im going to use that on my friend who works in HR

[–] cmhickman358@thelemmy.club 43 points 1 week ago (2 children)

He's not a who, he's a what

[–] riskable@programming.dev 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)
Which is why
High in the sky 
The Grinch didn't like Whoville very much
Every one was so-and-so, someone or such
[–] LMagicalus@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Can I ask what you use for the text formatting and colors? Ive seen this tool used a bunch on lemmy, and am quite curious.

[–] felixwhynot@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

Looks like code formatting, probably using backticks

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[–] Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 30 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It’s a title, like village idiot.

[–] MeThisGuy@feddit.nl 11 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

Keep my wife's name out of your goddamned mouth!

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[–] IMongoose@lemmy.world 28 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I can't find a specific image of it, only a reddit post talking about it, but in Grinch (2018) he buys green hair dye. I interpret that to mean he is just a normal whoville resident, but dyed green. I suppose his green grinch hair could be graying and he wants to look young, or he could just be some other color and chooses to be green, but I like to imagine him as some crazy naked hermit that makes himself green and everyone else just puts up with it.

[–] dQw4w9WgXcQ@lemm.ee 18 points 1 week ago

I don't buy it. Anything beyond 1966 is not canon in Dr. Seuss' The Grinch-universe.

[–] azi@mander.xyz 17 points 1 week ago

In Dr Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000), he was green since the day he ~~was born~~ drifted in on his pumbersella.

[–] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's most likely either a species (like the sneetches) or, to my mind, a descriptor given to him by the narrator. Keep in mind no character (namely the grinch, who does speak) ever refers to himself as such. Sort of like if someone narrated your life and called you "the grouch".

[–] hungprocess@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)
[–] lath@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago (2 children)
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[–] K0W4LSK1@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 1 week ago
[–] 2ugly2live@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago

I thought it was a character trait. I assumed he had a "Who" name, but no one uses it because he was being a dick all the time so they called him "the Grinch."

[–] bahbah23@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] tacosanonymous@lemm.ee 9 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Grinching wouold be a nice new slang term.

[–] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Grinching – the opposite of gooning.

"Yo fam you wanna go gooning later?"

"Nah I'm hard grinching rn fr fr"

[–] PervServer@lemmynsfw.com 6 points 1 week ago

Lil' bro is skibidi grinching smh

[–] riskable@programming.dev 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Really grinched it for the win

[–] TheImpressiveX@lemm.ee 14 points 1 week ago

I loved the part of the book where the Grinch said "it's Grinchin' time!" and grinched all over the Whos.

[–] Areyouseriousdotard@lemm.ee 7 points 1 week ago
[–] Trollivier@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 week ago
[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

Grinch is s state of mind

[–] dil@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

He's Mr Grinch, so it's at least his last name (and also explains him being THE Grinch who stole christmas). It's possible that it's also his job (see "Smith"), but prefer that grinching is named after him, a la Scrooge

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

It's his title, short for Exalted Grandiose Grinchimus Maximus de la Biblioteca.

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 4 points 1 week ago

All of the above.

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