"My name is Gluteous Maximus, commander of the Asses of the North, General of the Sphincter Legions and loyal servant to the TRUE emperor, Marcus Analius."
It's one of our weirder traditions, yeah, but some of us choose not to do it. I personally had a standing agreement with all my friends, relatives, and neighbors that I'd not participate in doing it to them and they'd not do it to me 😁
The Danish tradition of covering a 25-year-old in cinnamon (and a 30-year-old in pepper) if they're still unmarried traces back to the 15th–16th century pebersvend — a wandering spice merchant whose itinerant trade kept him from settling down and marrying. The cinnamon-specific custom is much younger: the earliest documented cases come from the 1960s in Northern Jutland, with the folk explanation that friends simply didn't want to wait five more years before "spicing up" their single peer, and cinnamon was a gentler substitute for pepper. It spread nationally by the 1980s and remains strongest in Jutland and Fyn. In practice, friends surprise the birthday person, tie them to a tree or lamppost, wet them down, and shower them in spice — a playful, consensual ritual rather than a law, though popularly dubbed the "Age 25 Rule." The 25-year-old earns the title kanelsvend (or kanelmø for women); at 30, pebersvend (or pebermø).
Okay so an earlier version of this script...you can tell what it is, it's a firstname, prefix, suffix generator. As an in-joke to the show I programmed in "Bob" "Johnson" and "Oh Wait" as the zeroth entry in the lists. It would occasionally pick up the parts in normal entries though, so my favorite one it printed was Slam Johnsonmeat which....please don't.
I wrote this thing at least ten years ago and I've been laughing at it ever since.
Ham is actually a veritable biblical name (as in Ham, Shem and Japhet), and was more common in puritanical times. A chimpanzee sent into space by NASA was named Ham, probably after the scriptural figure rather than importentiously the meat.
68 Comments
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 43 pts · 6d
"My name is Gluteous Maximus, commander of the Asses of the North, General of the Sphincter Legions and loyal servant to the TRUE emperor, Marcus Analius."
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 11 pts · 6d
You mean the right wing demagogues on the ascendancy in Nordic countries including my native Denmark?
Obnomus@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 5d
Is it true that if you're single on your 25th birthday, your friends and family will throw cinnamon on you?
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 5d
It's one of our weirder traditions, yeah, but some of us choose not to do it. I personally had a standing agreement with all my friends, relatives, and neighbors that I'd not participate in doing it to them and they'd not do it to me 😁
They do the same with pepper at 30 btw
Obnomus@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 5d
So its true. I thought it was rumor.
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 5d
Nope, totally true. It's one of our many bizarre traditions that most people don't know WHY we do 🤷🏻
Obnomus@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 4d
This is what I found upon looking up.
Agent641@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 5d
"He has a wife, you know..."
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 5d
of the New Fartington Asses?
thisisbutaname@discuss.tchncs.de · 22 pts · 5d
Or, as I call it, sexual harassment
BarrelAgedBoredom@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 5d
Or battery, perchance?
DudeImMacGyver@kbin.earth · 16 pts · 5d
BLAST HARDCHEESE!
piconaut@lemmy.ca · 9 pts · 5d
Buff Drinklots
Slab Squatthrust
Stump Chunkman
Big McLarge Huge
Bob Johnson
DudeImMacGyver@kbin.earth · 7 pts · 5d
Big McLargehuge might be my favorite.
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 5d
When I was learning Python, I coded a Space Mutiny Name Generator. Here, let me run a few:
Hack Slugmeal
Brick Vanderchest
Rip Fistnozzle
Stan Beefhead
Hack Squatchest
Beat Manknob
Hunk Hardhandle
Hack Hardnugget
Wedge Rockmeat
Beat Bonehat
Slam Headnugget
Stan Toughnozzle
Hack McLargebody
Hack Bulkcheese
Big Grindhuge
Dirk Squatpound
Crud Steaknugget
Hunk Rockface
Slam Fisthandle
Big Hardback
Chunk Slamface
Rip Manthrust
Beat Headmeat
^CAAAAAAAAAAH! gets out calmly
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 5d
>Beat Manknobyou're not the boss of me, magic CLI. I'm still gonna do it, but you're not my boss.
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 4d
Okay so an earlier version of this script...you can tell what it is, it's a firstname, prefix, suffix generator. As an in-joke to the show I programmed in "Bob" "Johnson" and "Oh Wait" as the zeroth entry in the lists. It would occasionally pick up the parts in normal entries though, so my favorite one it printed was Slam Johnsonmeat which....please don't.
I wrote this thing at least ten years ago and I've been laughing at it ever since.
finallymadeanaccount@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 5d
Pete Nutall
Rod Hardson
Jim Dick
Dick Batter
Greg 'Stiffy' Hunt
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 5d
He has an account here on Lemmy somewhere.
Slovene85@sh.itjust.works · 15 pts · 5d
Urethra Franklin
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 13 pts · 5d
GROND!
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 5d
BORT will always be a classic.
Grostleton@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 13 pts · 6d
H A M
B A T T E R Y
thisisbutaname@discuss.tchncs.de · 10 pts · 5d
Is that something used to power a ham? Or a battery made of pork?
Or is it a crime against pigs?
Grostleton@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 6 pts · 5d
Well, eating ham gives us energy, so logically they are batteries made of pork.
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 6 pts · 5d
Yes.
frog@feddit.uk · 2 pts · 5d
Ham batteries or for ham radios.
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 5d
correct
horseham battery stapleSnapz@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 5d
May i add...
Fridge
Crunch
Jeff
Murderer
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 5d
Don't forget:
Building-Inspector
Comptroller
Spün
Pissbaby
Stretch
Slick
Vice-Mayor
Penis
Boil-on-my-Ass
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 5d
Fridgecrunch Jeffmurderer is my favorite underused Marvel villain
AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space · 11 pts · 5d
Ham is actually a veritable biblical name (as in Ham, Shem and Japhet), and was more common in puritanical times. A chimpanzee sent into space by NASA was named Ham, probably after the scriptural figure rather than importentiously the meat.
dethedrus@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 5d
Bad portents to name science monkey after lunch meat?!?!
dethedrus@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 11 pts · 5d
gigastasio@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 5d
hansolo@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 4d
A sound of terror to many.
pigup@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 5d
I am Bus, and this is my son, Bussy.
Agent641@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 5d
Beer
Fight
Truck
Boulder
Gun
decolo@piefed.social · 4 pts · 5d
These are Dave Ryder adjacent.
Blast Crunchmeat
Squat Hardthrust
Beef Bulkhead
etc
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 5d
I still say Randolph Mantooth is the most masculine name.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 5d
it's hardly as manly as Leslie Venalohn
JustPlainDave@lemmy.zip · 7 pts · 6d
I don't know why, but honk really got me good.
thisisbutaname@discuss.tchncs.de · 8 pts · 5d
Nice to meet you, my name is Honk Ifyoulovejesus
JustPlainDave@lemmy.zip · -1 pts · 5d
At least it's not Honk Ifyourhorny
thisisbutaname@discuss.tchncs.de · 4 pts · 5d
Basically the same if you're horny for Jesus
aSaabD00d@lemmy.today · 7 pts · 6d
This is extremely funny to me bc I did go to school with someone named Dyson. I honestly have no idea why but we all called him Mateo.
thisisbutaname@discuss.tchncs.de · 7 pts · 5d
Because Dyson sucks?
KingVaelinEats@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 5d
Drano Battery is good enough.
ICastFist@programming.dev · 6 pts · 6d
Dranon Dyson sounds like a weirdly cool fantasy/scifi name
lime@feddit.nu · 6 pts · 6d
sleve mcdichael sounding ass
caboose2006@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 5d
Introducing my newborn son "This is baby Ham Dyson"
Obnomus@lemmy.ml · 6 pts · 5d
No optimus prime or megatron 🥀
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 6 pts · 5d
S'Phyllis
Fallopia
Fellaggio
G'Noriah
Ovaria
Horné
dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 5d
Horné wins.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 4d
La Trine
DamienGramatacus@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 4d
For the ladies, I always thought Urine (Youreeen) was a beautiful name
CodandChips@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 4d
Ive always liked Chlamydia...
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 5d
Honk is a stronk name. Almost as stonk as Grong
ToffeeIsForClosers@piefed.ca · 5 pts · 5d
Reminded me of this oldie but goldie list
Dick Pound!
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 5d
Legendary race car driver...
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 5d
Never did find a cure 😞
captainlezbian@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 4d
My friend names all her d&d characters after parts of the vulva, and it works shockingly well. Just name a man Vas Deferens
_stranger_@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 5d
Gonad Bloke does not sound like a nickname you want.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 5d
Rubella is very popular in 2026.
pigup@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 5d
Hoof
bilb@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 4d
I like Battery. Batt for short.
eestileib@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 5d
Glute is an awesome name
blimthepixie@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 5d
There's that guy who was in There Will Be Blood wasn't there?
Paul Drano