Comments on: Brad^2

By: dsquared

dsquared — Mon, 19 Jan 2004 06:43:00 +0000

I’m hoping it’s Ysidro, after Francis Y Edgeworth.

By: Mark

Mark — Sun, 18 Jan 2004 22:20:33 +0000

While on the topic of economists’ names, does anyone know what the ‘Y’ stands for in the name of financial economist John Y. Campbell?

By: Mr Ripley

Mr Ripley — Sun, 18 Jan 2004 07:27:57 +0000

Fordie was born Ford Hermann Hueffer. IIRC, he changed the middle name to Madox out of reverence for his ancestor, Ford Madox Brown, and the last name to Ford because he thought that for an English guy to have a German surname during the Great War was, or would be perceived as, unpatriotic.

By: zizka

zizka — Sun, 18 Jan 2004 06:18:30 +0000

No Butros Butros-Ghali jokes? There’s also a guy named W.C. Dampier Dampier-Whetham. Does he count?

By: LaughingWoman

LaughingWoman — Sat, 17 Jan 2004 14:20:48 +0000

“My name is James Bradford DeLong.” Well, I’m certainly glad now I know everything about you there is to know! That was the one last thing! That was the most ridiculous interview I have ever heard! What in the heck were you wearing? OK, don’t tell me. HAHA. Just saw a really interesting Mideast military souvenir- you might have to go get one. One of the student workers brought back a pair of plastic embedded long-horned beetles from Quatar, I think. On the top it says “Happy Blessings.”

By: Jeffrey Kramer

Jeffrey Kramer — Sat, 17 Jan 2004 04:30:26 +0000

Novelist Ford Madox Hueffer decided he didn’t like the sound of his name, and changed it to Ford Madox Ford. (DeLong Bradford DeLong… has a ring.)

By: ben wolfson

ben wolfson — Sat, 17 Jan 2004 04:14:17 +0000

One can be named “Brad” without being named “Bradford”, of course. Obviously he wants to be named Brad Bradford DeLong.

By: Brad DeLong

Brad DeLong — Sat, 17 Jan 2004 01:46:44 +0000

My name is James Bradford DeLong…

By: Henry

Henry — Sat, 17 Jan 2004 01:12:31 +0000

At the moment, his blog seems to have the title of “Brad DeLong’s Brad DeLong’s Semi-Daily Journal,” adding another layer of iterated nomenclature.

By: bryan

bryan — Fri, 16 Jan 2004 23:02:28 +0000

I bet he’s under the mistaken impression that brad is short for bradley.

By: Karl Marx

Karl Marx — Fri, 16 Jan 2004 22:41:26 +0000

He, the young man carbuncular, arrives, A small house agent’s clerk, with one bold stare, One of the low on whom assurance sits As a silk hat on a Bradford millionaire. That was the natural association for Eliot, anyway – more millionaires per head pre-1914 than anywhere else in the UK. It is a pretty interesting place you know. All that Germanic architecture (a favourite for shooting films – c.f. Alan Bennett, Writing Home )

By: laura

laura — Fri, 16 Jan 2004 21:17:15 +0000

I have a friend who at her, what is it, confirmation as a Catholic, where you choose a middle name of one of the saints or something? Anyway, she hadn’t paid attention in the class preparing her for it, so when the priest asked her what her name was, meaning what middle name she had chosen, she told him her first name. Which means that now her name is in some technical sense Lynne Lynne deBenedette.

By: Nasi Lemak

Nasi Lemak — Fri, 16 Jan 2004 18:47:24 +0000

Maybe “Bradford” has that property of negatives such that two Bradfords is the same as none?