Will Gary Lineker be presenting Motd on Saturday?

[andysays]

All this Gary talk reminds that G Numan is in fact 13 days older than G Oldman.

There seem to be a lot of Garys of roughly that age, including Kemp and Lineker himself, but now the name has fallen out of favour. I wonder which year was peak Gary.

 

[andysays]

Apologies to Spymaster for being a "snippy cunt" yesterday.

My comment wasn't intended to come across that way, but I can see how it did.

 

[SpookyFrank]

And now Fiona Bruce to stand down from role in domestic abuse charity after defending Stanley 'It only happened once' Johnson on Question Time.

Fiona Bruce to step down as Refuge ambassador over Stanley Johnson comments

I do kind of feel sorry for BBC presenters. It can't be easy knowing which people associated with the government can be attacked and which cannot.

Attacking is one thing, leaping to the defence of quite another. Maybe she had the libel lawyers in her earpiece.

 

[gentlegreen]

All this Gary talk reminds that G Numan is in fact 13 days older than G Oldman.

There seem to be a lot of Garys of roughly that age, including Kemp and Lineker himself, but now the name has fallen out of favour. I wonder which year was peak Gary.

Apparently Gary Cooper made it popular for a bit.
I'm the same age as GL and there was one in my class at school whose delightful parents gave "Player" as a middle name and there was one at work roughly the same age .,

I just checked and there are 11 in the staff list at the uni where I worked...

 

[Spymaster]

Is Gary Glitter the worst ambassador for a name that there has ever been?

Even when we were kids, way before he was known as a nonce, his name was rhyming slang for 'shitter'.

"Where's Dave gone?" ... "He's in the Gary"; or one might be told "stick it up yer Gary" after making an unpopular suggestion.

Even Adolph seems to have made something of a revival (Dolph is a diminutive of Adolph) but Gary seems to be truly on the wane.

 

[ska invita]

Is Gary Glitter the worst ambassador for a name that there has ever been?

Even when we were kids, way before he was known as a nonce, his name was rhyming slang for 'shitter'.

"Where's Dave gone?" ... "He's in the Gary"; or one might be told "stick it up yer Gary" after making an unpopular suggestion.

Even Adolph seems to have made something of a revival (Dolph is a diminutive of Adolph) but Gary seems to be truly on the wane.

Gary makes spectacular comeback as most popular baby names for 2022 revealed

Despite declining in popularity for decades, the name is seemingly on the up...

propermanchester.com

 

[Spymaster]

Gary makes spectacular comeback as most popular baby names for 2022 revealed

Despite declining in popularity for decades, the name is seemingly on the up...

propermanchester.com

Well that's me told. They don't quantify "spectacular comeback" though. Why would people be doing that then?

Gary Barlow, maybe?

 

[Spymaster]

As an aside, I think all the Garys in the world should be told they spell their name wrong and henceforth made to spell it with a double-R.

Garry.

 

[Yossarian]

According to the site that story cites:

Overall UK ranking: 1329 out of 4789

19 recorded births last year

That's up significantly from 2021 but I think it would take more than 19 Garys to count as a spectacular comeback

 

[gentlegreen]

I'm glad I never had to name a child - a bloody minefield.
I was fortuitously given a first name that works in French.
My neighbour decided it was "posh".
Ironically both my names are decidedly Biblical in nature - and I was dunked

 

[friedaweed]

Is Gary Glitter the worst ambassador for a name that there has ever been?

Even when we were kids, way before he was known as a nonce, his name was rhyming slang for 'shitter'.

"Where's Dave gone?" ... "He's in the Gary"; or one might be told "stick it up yer Gary" after making an unpopular suggestion.

Even Adolph seems to have made something of a revival (Dolph is a diminutive of Adolph) but Gary seems to be truly on the wane.

Tex, now there's a good name.

 

[Pickman's model]

Tex, now there's a good name.

As in tex watson of the manson family

 

[friedaweed]

I'm glad I never had to name a child - a bloody minefield.
I was fortuitously given a first name that works in French.
My neighbour decided it was "posh".
Ironically both my names are decidedly Biblical in nature - and I was dunked

Judas Herrod Gentlgreen has a nice ring to it though.

 

[ska invita]

As an aside, I think all the Garys in the world should be told they spell their name wrong and henceforth made to spell it with a double-R.

Garry.

Google says
Gary is likely derived from the Norman French name Geiree, itself descended from the Old Frankish name Geiserich, composed of two elements: “*gaizaz” (spear, pike, javelin) plus “*rīkijaz” (kingly, royal). A variant form of Gary is Garry, the spelling of which has been influenced by that of Barry.

I say bring back Gerry/Jerry

 

[friedaweed]

As in tex watson of the manson family

As in Tex Ritter the rhyming slang that predates Glitter for shitter.

"I'm off to the Tex can I have a read of your Mirror?"
"Sure but don't start the crossword"

 

[ska invita]

Gina does it again

 

[Spymaster]

According to the site that story cites:

Overall UK ranking: 1329 out of 4789

19 recorded births last year

That's up significantly from 2021 but I think it would take more than 19 Garys to count as a spectacular comeback

Yeah, if you came 1329th in pretty much anything you'd be hard pushed to call it a spectacular result.

 

[ska invita]

I think it would take more than 19 Garys to count as a spectacular comeback

Do NOT underestimate the POWER of 19 Garys

 

[friedaweed]

Watching Gary Lineker presenting himself with the SPOTY award will be quite funny this year.

 

[Yossarian]

Do NOT underestimate the POWER of 19 Garys

Can they combine into Mecha-Gary?

 

[DaveCinzano]

More garyful than you can possibly imagine

 

[ska invita]

Can they combine into Mecha-Gary?

like i said, very powerful

 

[JimW]

Gary seems to be truly on the wayne.

See what you did there.

 

[surreybrowncap]

Double murderer Gary Gilmore of course...

 

[Elpenor]

Double murderer Gary Gilmore of course...

For a while I thought that song was about the Australian left arm bowler Gary Gilmour

 

[surreybrowncap]

For a while I thought that song was about the Australian left arm bowler Gary Gilmour

Sadly the Australian cricketer passed away a few years ago...

 

[Orang Utan]

Is Gary Glitter the worst ambassador for a name that there has ever been?

Even when we were kids, way before he was known as a nonce, his name was rhyming slang for 'shitter'.

"Where's Dave gone?" ... "He's in the Gary"; or one might be told "stick it up yer Gary" after making an unpopular suggestion.

Even Adolph seems to have made something of a revival (Dolph is a diminutive of Adolph) but Gary seems to be truly on the wane.

In my world, a Gary is an ecstasy pill.
So all this talk of Gary has got me jonesing for getting mashup at a rave

 

[Magnus McGinty]

In my world, a Gary is an ecstasy pill.
So all this talk of Gary has got me jonesing for getting mashup at a rave

Gary Ablett. Which brings us full circle back to footballers.

 

[Pickman's model]

tbh what really did for gary was 'goodnight sweetheart' and nicholas lyndhurst's character gary sparrow

 

[Ted Striker]

In my world, a Gary is an ecstasy pill.
So all this talk of Gary has got me jonesing for getting mashup at a rave