In First Blood (1982), John Rambo.. What the fuck? His name is actually John Rambo?

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CubitOom@infosec.pub · 20 pts · 7d (1 reply)

jontree255@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 7d

“Wait what is that? Rambo?”

SnailMagnitude@mander.xyz · 8 pts · 7d (4 replies)
Crozekiel@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 7d (3 replies)

So it means something like "person who lives on a hill"??

SnailMagnitude@mander.xyz · 4 pts · 7d

In the case of john rambo it refers to the toilet at the base of the hill

bhamlin@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 7d

One might call him the king of the hill...

Leviathan@fedinsfw.app · 1 pts · 7d

Surprised that commonplace name has commonplace meaning?

Trex202@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 7d

They could have gone: "Hey, I'm John Rambolioni, you can call me Rambo."

Malyca@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 7d (2 replies)

This picture makes it look like he has a hole in his chest

TherapyGary@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 7 pts · 7d (1 reply)

I think he has pectus excavatum- when your sternum grow inward. The opposite condition also exists but I forget what it's called

Malyca@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 7d

Oh ok, thanks, I'd never heard of that. I'll look into it.

Treczoks@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 7d

The fun part: the book was written by David Morell, a professor for English, and it is quite good. As such, it differs quite a bit from the movie. Very intense, very psychological. Different ending.

DagwoodIII@piefed.social · 3 pts · 7d (2 replies)

I had a boss back in the day.

One of his aunts had a house on a small hill. The lawn was pretty steep and faced the street. Back around 1964 she asked her gardener to put her name in rocks on the visible part of the lawn so everyone in town would see it.

I don't know it Aunty still lives there, but there must have been a million pictures taken of her proud family name.

Do I need to tell you what it was?

R A M B O.

MutantTailThing@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 7d (1 reply)

R A M B O AND RAMBO WAS HIS NAME-O

threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 7d

Her name-o

decolo@piefed.social · 2 pts · 7d

They named him after John Halo, from the video game Halo

Frozengyro@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 7d

Wait until you hear what Obama's last name is...

Archimedes@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 7d

That's not the half of it, his middle name is Jimbo.

funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 7d

he's based on a real guy called Bo Gritz lol

ICastFist@programming.dev · 1 pts · 7d

What, you expected him to be called Mario Mario?

DarkCloud@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 7d (1 reply)

Pretty unbelievable. What I'm supposed to believe he's named after a movie character?

SavinDWhales@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 7d

Did you hear about this Odyssey movie? The main character is called Odysseus, lol!