Mow (surname) Puns

He just didn't cut it

It's lackadaisical.

In the second round of this past NFL draft, I noticed that three players whose surname began with O were drafted in a span of five picks. I thought that was a strange coincidence. But it inspired me to check out this page: https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/O/.

Eyeballing it, it seemed that quite a large percentage of the players were active in the league. I decided to graph it out.

Roster sizes have remained the same since 2011, so here's the graph of the number of active players whose surname starts with O, for every year since then. That is to say, there were 27 active O-named players in the league in 2011. And there were 48 in the league in 2020. A 78% jump, and I have no idea why.

https://imgur.com/a/l8NQ0D5

This data, of course, is just as useless as that neck size to passing yards graph, but at least this data is real.

This didn’t happen today, but a few weekends ago. My wife was spending the day at her sister’s new house to help her paint, and since her sister lives about 5 hours away, she was staying the night on a Saturday and coming back Sunday. Our kids also happened to be going to my parents’ that weekend from Friday evening to Sunday, so as a result, I was going to have 24 hours home alone for the first time in about 7 years. When my wife asked what I was going to do with my time alone I jokingly replaced “I don’t know, probably just get high and jerk off, maybe mow the lawn.”

So she leaves Saturday morning and after the obligatory masturbation session I decide to play some video games for a bit and then get a little high. I take edibles a couple nights a week and am kind of a lightweight. Usually half a gummy or 5 mg will do it and I’m feeling good until I go to bed. Since I’m alone and have a whole day to myself I decide to live a little and take 60 mg.

After a couple of hours of Red Dead Redemption 2 spent repetitively killing lawmen just to take their hats, I decide I’m bored, and the sun is shining so maybe I’ll go outside and mow the grass since I hadn’t cut it yet this year. It wasn’t super long but was getting a little raggedy looking in some spots and I like to keep it looking clean. So I grab my noise canceling headphones and go fire up the mower and turn Spotify to a DMX playlist (RIP).

Now, we have a big property. 20 acres total, but only about 4 that we mow and the rest is made up of horse pastures, fields, woods, etc. Still, it’s a lot to cut, so I use a zero-turn riding mower and it usually takes around 3 to 3 1/2 hours. If you’re not familiar with this type of mower, you turn it on with a key but then there is a separate knob you pull up engage the mower deck with the blades.

I get to work and my higher-than-usual ass is having a great time. Got my head phones on listening to music, just vibing on my mower in the sun. Nice little Saturday afternoon. I get about 3/4 of the way done and I get a call on my phone so my music stops. I turn the mower off and answer the call and when I’m done I fire it back up and engage the mower deck and resume cutting. When I turn around I notice that the last bit I cut is noticeably shorter than the rest of the lawn. Wtf, I didn’t mess with the blade level, why is it shorter? Check the blade level and it’s at a 4, which is what I set it at to start, so that’s not the problem. Then it dawns on me... I never eng

Bought this house in November with brand new sod. This is my first year really getting into my yard. Striving to have the best yard in the neighborhood. I think I just claimed that spot with this mow today.

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I (44f) was in a toxic relationship. My ex "Joe" (49m) met me when I was 15 and we started dating when I was 18. My mom was against the relationship and I moved in with at 19 because I thought that since she was never married she didn't know what she was talking about. I won't go into more details but eventually I wised up, reconciled with my mom, and moved away. Not that Joe made it easy.

I later met my other ex "Eric" (45m) and I told him about Joe and said that he might reach out to him. I warned him that Joe was a liar and just a terrible person. Fast forward to me being 7 months pregnant with our son "AJ" (20m). This was my first pregnancy and I was very nervous because it wasn't planned. I was worried that Eric would leave me after the baby was born and constantly asked him to reassure me that no matter what happened he'd still be here. Eric always did until one day he didn't and I started noticing that he was becoming distant.

Eventually he told me that Joe reached out to him and showed him pictures of him engaging in "adult acts" with a woman and said that it was me and that he was my baby's father. You can't identify who the woman is so Eric brushed it off at first but then he thought about how I was always getting him to promise me that no matter what happened he would never leave me, and now he had doubt. I told him the reasons why I needed to hear him say he'd stay, reminded him how crazy Joe was and even got others to back up my story, and told him that I don't even want to talk to Joe let alone be near him.

Eric said that he understood but, to ease his mind, he wanted a DNA test. I was upset and very insulted and asked what if I ever did anything to make him believe that I was a cheater. Eric admitted that I never gave him a reason so I said that there would be no test. We got into a fight and Eric said that he refused to sign the BC until a DNA test was done. I was hurt and moved out. I didn't talk to him and gave birth with my mom by my side. We took the test and Eric was the father, he tried to apologize but I didn't want to hear it. I would never deny access to our son but I felt like he wasn't reliable so I gave our son my surname so that incase Eric left him then my son wouldn't have to deal with his own name being a reminder of the father who might abandon him.

Now that AJ is a legal adult he said he was interested in taking Eric's surname and I was fine with that but he asked me why he never had his dad's name i

Not a massively serious one here, just a short rant about passive aggressive notes and texts.

I'm 40+2 (come on baby!!) and am receiving the inevitable daily/hourly messages from both sides of grandparents essentially asking whether we've had the baby yet (yes because of course that's the sort of thing we'd just forget to mention... also we texted you back 45 minutes ago and no we haven't had it since then).

The actual rant is about how MIL keeps tactfully removing my surname when she refers to our baby - we don't know if it's a girl or a boy and they get regularly referred to as 'baby OPSurname-SOSurname' as they will have both our names double barrelled (the names go well together and are both short so that's not the issue). Whenever MIL texts she always drops my surname from it and it's so obvious she does it. I always respond politely and just reinclude my surname.. she still doesn't seem to get the point.

She dropped round a disgusting 40+ year old baby towel for us yesterday (as a wonderful thoughtful gift) along with a note, again referring to our baby as 'baby SOSurname'.

I'm not losing sleep over this as I find it almost amusing at this point and baby will be registered with the double barrelled surname regardless so it's sort of a moot point. I just wish I knew what was in her head and why she does it, it's clearly not accidental. I don't think she's brave enough to actually bring it up of she has an issue either (see my last post for spinal activity).

Just curious, since we see so many different languages. I know not all names have a meaning/can be translated but I’m sure some can.

Something that is an uncommon word with a specific meaning, for example:

Kismet - destiny or fate

Overmorrow - the day after tomorrow

Doesn't have to be an English word either!

Just curious. I don’t have a surname; my name is in the form [given name] [child of] [father’s name], and I publish as [given name] [father’s name]. What do other people do?

Hi, so I (14f) have been a long time lurker but have never posted before. Please excuse any formatting errors I am on mobile.

To set the scene, I live in a relatively quiet neighborhood and all of our neighbors take great pride in keeping lawns and the appearance of their houses. So it is common to hear lawn mowers, weed wackers, saws, etc.

On Saturday afternoon I decided that I would mow our front and back lawn for my parents as they were preparing dinner and I thought it would be a nice thing to do. I had already finished mowing our backyard which took about 15-20 minutes and had moved onto our front yard. When I walked into the front yard I did notice my elderly neighbor(she’s like 97) sitting outside with her daughter. While in the middle of mowing the front lawn the daughter comes up to me and said something. I couldn’t hear her because the mower was running so I turned it off and asked her to repeat herself. She then says “I don’t know if you noticed young lady but we are trying to sit and enjoy our Saturday afternoon and you are disrupting us with your mowing”. I apologized and I thought that was the end of the ordeal so I started the mower back up. The daughter starts yelling at me that I have zero respect for the elderly or my neighbors. I told her I would be done in 10 minutes but she just wanted me to stop and come back and finish in 2 hours. 2 HOURS! I once again told her that I would finish mowing now as I only had half of the lawn left and she blew up once again. I then told her, “Me mowing for another 10 minutes will not hurt and you can go inside or just wait for me to be done. I never complain when you mow at 7 in the morning. Now please get off of our lawn”. I thought I was polite but when I told my parents about it they yelled and are upset because now they think that the neighbors will talk poorly about me or our family. I do feel kind of bad now because I could have just waited to do it another time and I may have taken it to far with telling her to get off our lawn.

So AITA for continuing to mow against the wishes of an elderly neighbor?

EDIT: i just looked up my city laws and it unfortunately is legal for her to mow at 7am. :(

A little list, obviously not all of them:

Zúñiga, Zubieta, Zárate, Zamudio, Vizcaíno, Vergara, Veloza, Velazco, Velásquez, Velandia, Vargas, Valenzuela, Useche, Uscátegui, Urrutia, Uriza, Uricoechea, Mendoza, Leguizamón, Giménez, Goyeneche, Gorraiz, Godoy, Garay, Gaona, Gamboa, Galindo, Espitia, Eraso, Duarte, Chacón, Contreras, Cárdenas, Borda, Bolívar, Bohórquez, Bernal, Bayona, Atehortúa, Ayala, Avendaño, Arévalo, Araque, Amaya, Aguirre, Ibarra, Iriarte, Mendieta, Mojica, Muñóz, Olave, Olano, Orozco, Ortega, Ortíz, Ospina, Otálora, Ricaurte, Suescú

Here they are too fucking common, while this is backed historically, since basques went a lot to Antioquia and the southern cone, specially Chile, i wonder if elsewhere this surnames are common

also basques are believed to form a secret aristocracy that controls the continent but let´s ignore that

Do not steal this post, thanks

So I've made some posts prior to this about my bfs mother that absolutely loooves inserting herself into everything and making everything about her.

Well yesterday for the 1st time bf stood up to her😳

She was giving him the "silent treatment" for a few days cause he didn't come over to see her on demand as he had work to do, that didn't last long as she wouldn't stop ringing him NON STOP yesterday.

I don't know the whole conversation and he didn't tell me all of it but basically she was saying how he hasn't seen her in a month and what has she done to deserve this...he told her he saw her last week, but she said no that wasn't enough you only saw me for an hour!! Saying how there HAS to be a bigger reason to why he hasn't seen her, he told her that he has his own life and he's been busy. She was trying to manipulate him saying that she feels "let down and disappointed" because he doesn't want to see her everytime she demands to (which is like twice a week..)

Then ofc she had to bring up her dear grandchild into it how she won't see him often because her son doesn't even want to see her....and he said well you won't see him on demand no but you can still be involved. They were going back and forth about that and he said that we have our own lives. Then she said "well I want to be an important person in my grandchild's life!!" And he replied "it depends what you mean by important" definitely did not expect him to be that blunt but he is 100% right since she feels like she's going to be the 3rd parent, not happening.

Idk what else was said but she still was trying to guilt trip him because she wasn't getting the responses she wanted, saying how he isn't the same like he was before and that she feels like she's not a part of his life anymore 🙄🙄 then ofc she started crying.

The only thing that changed is that he's going to be a father...they were never really that close, she's only been demanding for him to see her this often since I got pregnant.

I told him this whole thing was her trying to emotionally manipulate him, I felt bad because he looked very stressed. I don't understand why these narcissists behave this way, as soon as they don't hear what they want to they make you feel bad like you're the one that's being unreasonable.

And Today, oh boy

She called him and started talking about our unborn child again. She asked bf what our son's full name will be and he told her, she got angry and said why is the surna

can anyone help me out? I’m an African-American trying to explore my African roots, and I’m looking for ways to trace back to my origin. I’ve always wanted to find out what my surname would’ve been. I want to find at least an original African ancestor or relative of mine, if any. Also, I tried to explain & title this the best I could I hope y’all understand lol.

I was thinking about this the other day - there was a story about recently passed Romanian singer Nelu Ploieșteanu, and I started to laugh about how weird it would be to hear in English - "George Bostonian" or "Jay Brookliner". What about in your language?

It’s come to this. Mowing random people’s lawns on the weekends to just pass the time and push through. It’s nice though, I like it. And it’s working. Day 8 and onwards. IWNDWYT

I'm struggling here. My husband recently died and I've had to take over all aspects of home ownership, despite the fact that I have a joint disorder and doing things like mowing the lawn is extremely hard for me. I didn't mow the lawn for about 7 days, which was probably not good itself, but then it rained for 4. The grass is ridiculously long at this point. Am I able to mow it today, even though the rain has been going constantly for the past few days? Or should I leave it until tomorrow when it's more dry, even though that means it'll be a day longer?

Edited: I took a mix of everybody's advice! I waited until it had dried a bit more throughout the day so the grass wasn't slippery wet, did smaller passes, put the mower at the highest setting, and I'll hit it again with a lower setting in a few days. It went much easier than I thought it would, and thanks to some very helpful folks on here, I cleaned the underside of the mower properly as well! Thank everyone so so much! I really appreciate the help!!!

In the Netherlands, there are many crazy surnames such ‘naaktgeboren’ (born naked), ‘de koning’ (the king, or ‘anus’ (anus). This is because many Dutch were protesting against the occupying French (Napoleon), who mandated everyone to have a surname. Many people thus choose crazy surnames, which survive until this day. Does your country also have a lot of crazy surnames?

I've been searching for the answer for mine since I was like 11 lol. Because in Spain almost everyone knows the backstory to their surnames and where exactly they came from. Some even have coat of arms.

My surname is quite uncommon in Romania, supposedly a Hungarian one, but even Hungarians that I've asked said It didn't sound familiar.

At school I've been bullied by kids that thought I was Asian due to It lol.

And whenever I search it Up It just shows that It exists in Romania and Hungary, India and Sub-Saharan African countries in certain tribes lol.

And I have always envied the Spaniards for having such easy surnames like Hidalgo, or even romanian ones like Ungureanu lmao

BTW: I am in now way asking anyone to disclose personal information, please don't do that haha. I'm just curious about whether my situation is more common than I thought in the Balkans, or if most surnames are more easy to trace back its roots.

Also, I've just foolishly deleted the post the first time because I forgot to put a flair or tag whatever theyre called.

But now I've realized I'm not even getting the option of using one lol

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I live in Utah. IFA 4 Step Program is fantastic.

Note: This treatise is directed toward groups who speak English when they game but I think you can apply this logic to other languages. I suspect that occupational/place-name surnames are the norm across most cultures, but feel free to out-nerd me with counterexamples if you like.

Look up the etymology for any surname, and you'll often find that it translates to some occupation or some place name, with the occasional exception of a surname that simply indicates kinship to some guy's first name. Some surnames are obvious, like "Smith" or "Fletcher," some not-so-obvious, like "Mathers" (which comes from Old English "moethere;" someone who cuts grass or hay, and which I suspect is why we say that we "mow" grass today). It's therefore sensible that individuals' surnames in your world would follow suit, and if you're using English as a stand-in for Common (a wise choice since it would be pretty hard to make all your players learn some made-up language just so they can play the game), then it's perfectly appropriate to use English surname conventions.

There's another good reason to do this, though. I can't tell you how many times I've seen a game halted while everyone has the DM spell out some weird-ass made-up name that we all write down and then promptly forget and have to refer to our notes every time we come across this person in the future because it's kind of hard to remember and we don't interact with them all the time. But if you give your NPCs regular surnames, they're going to be much easier to remember, and even relatable. By all means, give them a whimsical series of vowels and consonants for a first name (I would try to keep it to 3 syllables or less but you do you), but make their last name something normal, occupational. That's not to say that Tronten Smith HAS to be an actual blacksmith; maybe that was his great-great grandfather's occupation and Tronten is actually the captain of the city guard.

Anyway you do you, if you just really like making up cool sounding names that flow off the tongue like Astrium Cellardoor, go buckwild. But if you find yourself reaching for a fantasy name generator then I would gently suggest just going with a regular-ass last name for your NPC.

Thanks for reading, and good luck with your campaigns!

I’m from Canada but my boyfriend is French, and he can often guess where someone is from based on their last name. I think this is super cool and would love to hear some tips so I can keep up with him!

For instance, he once mentioned something like surnames ending in “-escu” and some others are indicative of Romanian ancestry. I could be recalling that incorrectly, but stuff like that I find very cool and I would love to hear some from your country! Please don’t hesitate to say obvious ones, too. :)

He just didn’t cut it.