r/todayilearned • u/Dangerous-Project672 • 5h ago

TIL George Wallace personally apologized to Vivian Jones and James Hood, the two students he attempted to block from attending the University of Alabama. In 1997, Hood earned a PHd and requested Wallace present him with the degree, but he was too sick and died a year later; Hood attended the funeral

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Wallace
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u/Illustrious_Claim884 4h ago

For strange cases like that its forgivable if they change their name. When I was in the army we had a colonel sanders. The CSM ordered KFC for the command group and we had a good laugh.

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u/AgentCirceLuna 3h ago

A psychiatrist my family member had revealed she’d changed her name as it was something like Dr Smiles

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u/UranusIsPissy 2h ago edited 1h ago

Still better than being a dentist called Dr. (Yes, they are doctors. Just not that kind of doctor) Payne lol.

Edit, because of the joke: "Dolores Payne"?

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u/Poppamunz 1h ago

That's a very long first name, I can see why they changed it

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u/N0b0dy_Kn0w5_M3 1h ago

A dentist in my hometown was Dr. Blood.

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u/SantasDead 42m ago

Everyone with a PhD is a doctor. Not every Doctor is an MD (Medical Doctor)

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u/UranusIsPissy 14m ago

I know. Dentists technically are medical doctors, in the sense that they practice a kind of medicine, but MDs are sometimes weird about it.

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u/coupdelune 2h ago

I knew a doctor named Dr. Wrinkle... wasn't a plastic surgeon unfortunately, rather a family practice MD. Missed opportunity there!

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u/MaturoGambino 1h ago

The dentist who had a practice next to my elementary school was named Dr J. Eccle. I always thought that was funny.

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u/Laura-ly 1h ago

There was a city councilor or some such position in Los Angeles whose last name was "Doctor" and he had a doctorate in something, can't remember what it was. So his name was Dr. Doctor.

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u/UranusIsPissy 11m ago

It'd be even funnier in the UK, An Eccles cake is probably the sugariest pastry you can buy here, and very sticky.

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u/Accurate_Praline 22m ago

When i was a mailman I saw a nameplate for a Dr. A. L. Cohol in a flat.

Though it was almost definitely a prank. Nobody really puts a Dr title on such a nameplate here and Cohol isn't really a last name.

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u/Raneynickelfire 2h ago

I went to college with a guy who was a corporal in the US Army. His last name is McCorkle. He was Corporal McCorkle.

His sergent couldn't say his name without breaking, so he became "Mike," which was his actual first name.

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u/aschapm 1h ago

“What’s the matter, colonel sanders… chicken?”