The following Dodgers have been smited by the JDK for their crimes against Jam:
All the girls! for picking on the JDK and damaging his already delicate self esteem!
The Basserd Who Nicked Copper's Stuff For the offense of nicking Copper's stuff. You are a tw*t, whoever you are and we all hope you get run over by a tram in Nottingham. Or Liverpool. Or whereever else they have trams!
Copper For the crime of playing with her Wii instead of her Jammie pals!
So I was wandering down from the bus stop this morning and noticed a poster for Terry Gilliam’s new movie, The Brothers Grimm. One of the stars of the movie is a chap called Heath Ledger who you may recall from such stellar movies as A Knight’s Tale and… er… well I can’t think of any others.
Anyway, I got to thinking… what sort of name is Heath? As far as I’m aware it’s just a large patch of open scrubland. So, I looked it up on dictionary.com as you do, and sure enough:
Any of various usually low-growing shrubs of the genus Erica and related genera, native to Europe and South Africa and having small evergreen leaves and small, colorful, urn-shaped flowers. Also called heather.
An extensive tract of uncultivated open land covered with herbage and low shrubs; a moor.
So Heath’s parents either named him after a plant, which is frankly girlie, or they named him after a bit of land. Which is just odd. I suspect, they simply made it up cos they thought it sounded nice.
As for his surname…
Well, anyway. That was my thought for the day. A bit wasted really wasn't it...
It does seem an odd name for a chocolate bar. But most american candy, in my experience anyway, kinda tastes like dirt, so maybe they're just being honest.
Any other strange made up names for movie stars or public figures. Two come to mind immediately:
Rip Torn - there must be an amusing anecdote behind this. Anyone know it?
Condoleeza Rice - Condoleeza? That has to be made up. It's like a bad day on Countdown... I'll have two from the first row, three from the second and 5 from the third, please Carol... oh bugger...
There are actually two further possible explanations for Heath's name. It's entirely possible that his parents were well-educated students of 19th century English Literature and named him after Heathcliff from Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights. Alternately, his parents could have been tasteless aficionados of 1970's English Pop and named him after Heathcliff from Kate Bush's Wuthering Heights. My money's on the latter.
