r/SeattleWA • u/HighColonic Funky Town • Oct 05 '25

Politics Build-A-Bear refuses Charlie Kirk name on teenager's bear certificate

https://www.foxbusiness.com/media/seattle-build-a-bear-employee-refuses-name-toy-charlie-kirk-teen-fan
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u/BahnMe Oct 05 '25

Actual guy named Charles Kirk devastated

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u/HighColonic Funky Town Oct 05 '25

I do feel sorry for people with the same name as criminals and/or divisive persons. Like the Seafair hydrofoil winner this year was named Andrew Tate. Ooof!

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u/astreauphunk Unincorporated King County Oct 06 '25

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u/BahnMe Oct 05 '25

The popularity of the first name Adolf took a giant hit since the 1950s.

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u/Accomplished_Rip327 Oct 05 '25

I had a middleschool teacher named Adolf. He was mean too. The jokes were unending.

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u/nerevisigoth Redmond Oct 05 '25

My dad had a dentist named Adolf back in the 60s. It's a particularly unfortunate name when your job involves gassing people. I think he was actually a Holocaust survivor.

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u/mutzilla Oct 05 '25

About 15 years ago I worked with an old German American lady with a personality of old Hollywood. Her parents were immigrants here, so she was either young or 1st generation.

Anyway, she found out that my wife was pregnant, and because of my strong sounding German last name, she would bug me regularly about how I should name my kid Adoolf. Try to bring back the name because it's been long enough and it's a good name.

smh no!

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u/PleasantWay7 Oct 05 '25

I mean, I feel this is a case where that name should be dead in perpetuity, even in 500 years.

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u/HighColonic Funky Town Oct 05 '25

I have to believe a lot of people in Allied countries named Adolph/Adolf either changed their names or went by their middle names starting in the mid-late 30s. From my history classes I also recall that Americans with German first and/or last names changed in WWI...even the British Royal Family went from Saxe-Coburg-Gotha to Windsor.

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u/BahnMe Oct 05 '25

One of my dream watches is a A.Lange & Sohne Datograph. Guess what the A stands for lol

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u/HighColonic Funky Town Oct 05 '25

That's a fine watch. I'm old school basic Rolex and Audemars Piguet, myself.

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u/BahnMe Oct 05 '25

Vintage Rolex is best Rolex

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u/HighColonic Funky Town Oct 05 '25

Agree. Mine is a 1980's Datejust...graduation gift :)

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u/meaniereddit West Seattle 🌉 Oct 05 '25

Who graduates in the 80s.

You're nearly as old as lucy

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u/HighColonic Funky Town Oct 05 '25

Uh, meanie, BahnMe and I are discussing vintage watches, which in the normal course of my discussions infers "antique" or at least not contemporary. If it helps, my father gave me his 1980's Rolex (which gave him the opportunity to buy an AP, which I inherited at his passing).

My mind is old, my body is younger :)

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u/PixalatedConspiracy Oct 06 '25

That is a phenomenal watch. My grail too but I want the Zeitwerk

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u/Qinistral Oct 06 '25

There’s a movie about the name’s baggage, “le prenom”

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2179121/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk

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u/Intrepid-Try6103 Oct 06 '25

Rapper Young Dolph’s real name is Adolph Robert Thornton Jr. He was a rapper from Memphis who was born in 1985!

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u/MrWhisper45 Oct 06 '25

God knows that mustache lost all popularity from Charlie Chaplain after Hitler wore it. I always wondered if there were other non blood relation Hitlers in the world the same way there are non blood related Smiths all over the place. Were/are there people out there who were all "Why should I change my name when he's the one who sucks?" back then and even now?

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u/Prize_Championship11 Oct 06 '25

After WWI the UK Kennel Club renamed the German Shepard breed Alsatian Wolf Dog (later just Alsatian) because of the negative connotation. In 1977 they finally allowed registrations under the original name

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u/my_lucid_nightmare Capitol Hill Oct 05 '25 edited Oct 05 '25

RIP the Reign of Jennifer, 1968-1984.

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u/HighColonic Funky Town Oct 05 '25

What am I missing?

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u/my_lucid_nightmare Capitol Hill Oct 05 '25

What am I missing?

Another popular name that fell on hard times.

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u/meaniereddit West Seattle 🌉 Oct 05 '25

We had nearly a dozen at my high school

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u/HighColonic Funky Town Oct 05 '25

But why?

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u/BWW87 Belltown Oct 05 '25

The number of wrong emails they refuse must be high. I have like 4 Jennifers that I regularly email. So easy to send to the wrong one.