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Buttery_Mess

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Real Life Dwarves (not dwarfs)
« on: December 17, 2011, 09:40:47 am »
I was just flicking through New Scientist when a named jumped out at me; a name, Marshall Urist, who happens to have been a bone doctor.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2772913/

Has anyone ever found any other names of people irl who could have been dwarves, due to their name and occupation? I haven't found any apart from Dr. Urist.
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Re: Real Life Dwarves (not dwarfs)
« Reply #1 on: December 17, 2011, 04:28:06 pm »
Hah, Dr. Urist. Nice. I wonder how many DF players would have second thoughts about going to his clinic. :U

Also, Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman. Not so much because of their names, but because they build crazy stuff and invariably apply more explosives to everything. I bet dorfs would do that too if they had explosives.
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Re: Real Life Dwarves (not dwarfs)
« Reply #2 on: December 17, 2011, 04:41:01 pm »
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Re: Real Life Dwarves (not dwarfs)
« Reply #3 on: December 18, 2011, 07:07:47 am »
Fritz is stuck by a great idea!

Let's find people that have Urist in their names, and are doing labors just like in DF.

http://gabrieluristjewelry.com/

We have a doctor and a jeweler.

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Re: Real Life Dwarves (not dwarfs)
« Reply #4 on: December 18, 2011, 07:40:32 am »
There is a common Russian name which sounds suspiciously similar to Urist — Юрий (Yury/Yuri/Jurii).
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Re: Real Life Dwarves (not dwarfs)
« Reply #5 on: December 18, 2011, 08:32:43 am »
That sounds about as similar to "Urist" as "Pancake" does.
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« Reply #6 on: December 19, 2011, 03:34:49 am »
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FACULTY PROFILE — Jeffrey Urist

Clinical Instructor
Ph.D. University of Michigan
Area: Clinical

Research and Teaching Interests
My research Interests include: self-care in adolescents; development of affect and affect tolerance; and thought disorder and the continuum between primary and secondary process thinking.
Self-care in adolescents => Dwarven child-care?
Thought disorder => Jeffrey Urist has gone stark raving mad!!!



Also, here's a quite dwarfy company name! 
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Found a hilariously sarcastic dwarven song too! The website name reveals the dwarven connection.
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Cypriots kill 1.4 million migrants?!?!! Damn, that's truly a dwarven thing to do!!!
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