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Do you think people in caveman days had geological surnames?


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Although the cave dwellers that we are all familiar with all had standard Anglo first names, like Fred, Wilma, Barney, Betty, George and Joe, they had rocks for surnames: such as Flintstone, Rubble, Slate, Rockhead and Hatrock.   :unsure:

This seems strange, but no more so than our similar friends from the future who have first names like, George, Jane. Judy and Elroy, but adopted unusual new surnames associated with outer space, such as Jetson, Spacely, Galaxy and Marsdale.   :huh:

I always wondered where the name "Sharrock" came from.  :)   

 

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The surname Sharrock was first found in Lancashire where they held a family seat as Lords of the Manor. The Saxon influence of English history diminished after the Battle of Hastings in 1066. The language of the courts was French for the next three centuries and the Norman ambience prevailed. But Saxon surnames survived and the family name was first referenced in the year 1332 when Richard de Shorrock held estates at Shorrock Green in that county.

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I like how so many Star Trek characters have hobbies associated with 20th Century Earth.

Commander Will Riker on Star Trek Next Generation loved jazz music and had trouble playing a song called "Night Bird" on trombone.

In the same series, Dr. Beverly Crusher teaches Data to tap dance.

Lieut. Tom Paris on Star Trek Voyager loved and built 1950's hot rods.

On Star Trek Deep Space Nine had a favorite holosuite bar set in the mid-1900's with a 1960's-rat-pack style singer named Vic Fontaine who, in the very last episode, sang "The Way You Look Tonight" - which became an instrumental salute as the characters said goodbye to each other as they moved away to new assignments.

And when they got whisked back into the past on Earth, it was always to the 20th century except for one time to 1800's San Francisco.  They fought Hitler's Nazis, experienced the Great Depression, transported a U.S. Air Force pilot onto Kirk's Enterprise, stopped the Borg from going back to the 20th Century and destroying Earth before it sent people into space, stopped a time-traveler from implementing 2300's technology to late 20th Century earth, and got energy from the Aircraft Carrier Enterprise around the 1990's to help capture a humpback whale and take it to the future where it was extinct.

In one Deep Space Nine Episode, they explained the aliens at Roswell in 1948 as the Ferengis going there by mistake with humans from the late 2300's.

Of course, the Commander in charge of the Deep Space Nine space station, Ben Sisko, was a big baseball fan - even though the sport had died out on Earth over 200 years earlier. They even played a baseball game in a holosuite!

Baseball! Isn't really that relevant in the future.

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9 hours ago, jsharr said:

The surname Sharrock was first found in Lancashire where they held a family seat as Lords of the Manor. The Saxon influence of English history diminished after the Battle of Hastings in 1066. The language of the courts was French for the next three centuries and the Norman ambience prevailed. But Saxon surnames survived and the family name was first referenced in the year 1332 when Richard de Shorrock held estates at Shorrock Green in that county.

Your ancient ancestors may have lived in Bedrock and worked for Slate Rock and Gravel Company.   :)  

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11 hours ago, Clark said:

This seems strange, but no more so than our similar friends from the future who have first names like, George, Jane. Judy and Elroy, but adopted unusual new surnames associated with outer space, such as Jetson, Spacely, Galaxy and Marsdale.   :huh:

Sprockets and Cogs always struck me as snot all that futuristic. 

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