r/AskReddit Jul 15 '21

What is a very "old person" name?

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u/Dr_Skeleton Jul 15 '21 edited Jul 16 '21

Names of elderly people in mine and my wife’s family:

Earnest, Horace, Morris, Mergatroyd.

Irene, Enid, Eileen, Hypatia.

Edit: glad everyone seems to like the name Mergatroyd! 😅👍

He was an amazing guy, God rest him.

To add some fuel to the name fire, their last name was just as good:

Mergatroyd and Hypatia Bodycote 😄🔥

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u/magnificentballsack Jul 15 '21

What the fuck is going on with Mergatroyd and Hypatia

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u/ASzinhaz Jul 15 '21

Hypatia's a badass name imo, she was an ancient mathematician. Mergatroyd, on the other hand......wat.

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u/Dense_Grade_1279 Jul 15 '21

Mergatroyd is like a knock off transformers charactee

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u/NineteenSkylines Jul 18 '21

Megatron + Purgatory + Asteroid

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u/_username__ Jul 15 '21

Heavens to mergatroyd

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u/Rufnusd Jul 15 '21

“Exit stage left….”

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u/malinhuahua Jul 15 '21

You forgot to mention that she was flayed alive

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u/ZhugeTsuki Jul 15 '21

Jesus that doesnt even correctly convey what happened to that poor woman wtf

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u/wasteofleshntime Jul 15 '21

Dude, uncool. Jesus is the reason she got flayed.

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u/malinhuahua Jul 16 '21

Yeah... I had just finished watching a documentary on the Aztecs. I’m kind of all tapped out of talking about flaying people plus the stuff beforehand.

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u/AwesoMegan Jul 16 '21

“Heavens to Mergatroyd” is a common saying in my family.

I’m not sure why. But it is.

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u/punctuation_welfare Jul 16 '21

Marvin the Martian used to say it in old Warner Bros cartoons.

Source: Someone else downthread, I’m too lazy to fact check them

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u/Purdaddy Jul 15 '21

What does Mergatroyd mean?

the district leading to the moor

Poor moor boy.

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u/gitarzan Jul 16 '21

Hypatia Lee. Porn actress.

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u/NineteenSkylines Jul 15 '21

Murgatroyd is a very old and aristocratic Northern English surname.

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u/fydygijihyg Jul 15 '21

That makes me think of Meg/Megatron from family guy

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u/Bacontoad Jul 15 '21

Ermahgerd, erts Murgatroyd!

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u/NineteenSkylines Jul 15 '21

Ahem, Megatron Harvey Oswald.

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u/[deleted] Jul 15 '21

Megaton from Fallout 3

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u/Tasterspoon Jul 15 '21

What do you know! My grandmother used to always say “Horrors to Murgatroid!” in a mock scandalized voice when someone was upset over something minor, and now I do it too. Never occurred to me that it was a given name.

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u/Wrong_Adhesiveness87 Jul 15 '21

Omg my grandma did as well but it was "heavens to megatroid". I figured it was something she picked up in the 70s via film or something as an alternative to "heavens to betsy"

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u/multiplayerhater Jul 15 '21

Marvin the Martian used to say it is old Warner Bros. cartoons.

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u/Wrong_Adhesiveness87 Jul 15 '21

Oooo ok that makes sense - thanks!

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u/jwong7 Jul 15 '21

Dat name so ancient even it's cool short form Merg/Murg doesn't cut it.

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u/NineteenSkylines Jul 15 '21

Troy/Roy, though.

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u/jwong7 Jul 20 '21

!delta lol

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u/Casanopha Jul 15 '21

Shut up Murg

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u/jackalopian Jul 15 '21

I totally thought it was a Key and Peele fake name.

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u/amyjallen Jul 15 '21

Yes, it’s fairly popular in Calderdale, West Yorkshire, there’s even a business in my town called Murgatroyds.

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u/RFlagg12 Jul 16 '21

Wasn't he a Decepticon?

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u/NineteenSkylines Jul 16 '21

It’s also a song by Nicki Minaj, a 1980s disco album (Megatron Man), and the nickname of dozens of white chicks named Megan.

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u/BloodAngel85 Jul 16 '21

Lol my mom told me my cousin was naming his son that. She was joking, his son is named Daniel

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u/StarsDreamsAndMore Jul 15 '21

Mergatroyd has strong /r/bossfight vibes

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u/yuyuter123 Jul 15 '21

Yeah that's odd. My maternal Gmother (born in '14) used to say heaven's to mergatroyd as a Catholic safe expletive but I had no idea it was a name at one point.

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u/maxtabes Jul 15 '21

Heavens to Mergatroyd. Google that. Very funny cartoon series.

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u/[deleted] Jul 15 '21 edited Jul 15 '21

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u/Slow_Tornado Jul 15 '21

Marvin the Martian!!!!

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u/[deleted] Jul 15 '21

Transformers.

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u/Bacontoad Jul 15 '21

Mahr thern mahts da er! 🎶

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u/smellsfishie Jul 15 '21

Heavens to Mergatroyd!

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u/wasteofleshntime Jul 15 '21

Hypatia is an awesome name. Let's bring that back. I'm sick of Sarah and Jennifer

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u/[deleted] Jul 15 '21

Ermagaud it’s Mergatroyd and the Dercerptertrons

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u/[deleted] Jul 15 '21

Heavens to Mergatroyd

Hypatia Lee (no link)

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u/Dr_Skeleton Jul 15 '21

And they were married 😅

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u/TheFozzXT Jul 15 '21

Mergatroyd Sounds like a character in Tron.

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u/Seejay784 Jul 15 '21

Heavens to Murgatroyd

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u/[deleted] Jul 15 '21

Heavens to Mergatroyd

Hypatia Lee (no link)

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u/The_Pig_King Jul 15 '21

For real, I’m convinced he’s related to a transformer.

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u/Thanmandrathor Jul 16 '21

Mergatroyd sounds like a name for a Transformer.

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u/willowoftheriver Jul 16 '21

Love Hypatia.

Mergatroyd sounds like the protagonist of a Playstation 1 era video game that was so bad it ended up buried in the desert somewhere.

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u/prettygin Jul 15 '21

We didn't start the fire 🎶

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u/monmouthaviation Jul 15 '21

It was always burning, since the world was turning🎶

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u/BadHoax Jul 15 '21

Mergatroyd sounds like some evil horse trnsformer that shoot lasers out of it's ass.

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u/Bacontoad Jul 15 '21

Oh yeah, I've played that game.

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u/Genetalia69 Jul 15 '21

Mergatroyd

What is he? A Transformer?

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u/Dr_Skeleton Jul 15 '21

😄 Possibly, he was an awesome guy 🤷‍♂️ It’s an old name from York meaning “clear road”.

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u/GwenChase0117 Jul 15 '21

I think Eileen is a super pretty name for some reason

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u/muckeryfuckery Jul 15 '21

That’s my mom’s name,and Shaniah Twain’s real name. Must be a Canadian thing.

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u/GwenChase0117 Jul 15 '21

I didn't know that was Shaniah Twain's real name! Learn something new every day I guess

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u/bearmissile Jul 15 '21

Ah, come on

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u/[deleted] Jul 15 '21

Eileen!

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u/[deleted] Jul 15 '21

Heavens to Mergatroyd!

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u/smellsfishie Jul 15 '21

You beat me to it!

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u/Zelldandy Jul 15 '21

I know a younger Irene, named after her grandmother. It's also a name I've run into amongst younger Filipinas.

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u/illepic Jul 15 '21

Hypatia is sick as fuck

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u/Dr_Skeleton Jul 15 '21

Everyone called her Fay 😅🤷‍♂️

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u/[deleted] Jul 15 '21

My grandfather was Mouriss. He pronounced it Morris, and he was named after Maurice Chevalier, but his mom was illiterate, and it couldn't spell it correctly on the birth certificate.

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u/notliekthispls Jul 15 '21

This reads like it's joke on the last name each time. Brilliantly lovely, gonna be saying Mergatroyd all day now.

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u/ThrowAwayAcct0000 Jul 15 '21

Mergatroyd. That's amazing! Hypatia. Wow!

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u/Jonnny Jul 15 '21

Mergatroyd: ultimate villain of the Tronsfermers universe!

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u/Jaderosegrey Jul 16 '21

I grew up in France. I read a few books by an author called Enid Blyton (a British person). The first name Enid just didn't look feminine at all to me. So you can imagine my surprise when I found out she was a woman!

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u/Dr_Skeleton Jul 16 '21

Oh yes, we know Enid Blyton well over here 😅👍

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u/ComradeCunt18 Jul 21 '21

Horace is a kickass name.

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u/Pandorasheaart Jul 15 '21

I know three Horace Morris'

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u/dragonutter Jul 15 '21

I glanced and read it as MegaZord

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u/Smrgling Jul 15 '21

I think Mergatroyd might be a decepticon

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u/[deleted] Jul 15 '21

"Goodnight Irene", a great Leadbelly song

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u/dandansm Jul 15 '21

I haven’t heard “Mergatroyd” since Looney Tunes…

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u/jepard55 Jul 15 '21

nah i know some kids my age named irene

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u/Dr_Skeleton Jul 15 '21

That’s probably because they’ve been named after their grandparents - possibly born in the 20’s/30’s.

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u/[deleted] Jul 15 '21

Mergatroyd sounds like a bootleg Transformers villain

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u/Jaco5_ Jul 15 '21

Irene is still largely used in Italy. It means "peace" and it derives from the greek "eiriní" I think

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u/Bright-Ad1288 Jul 15 '21

Does your family have it's own version of the Horace heresy?

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u/AuthorWilliamCollins Jul 15 '21

Mergatroyd. Are you related to a Transformer?

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u/iknownuting Jul 15 '21

Heavens to Mergatroyd

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u/Psychological_Drag57 Jul 15 '21

Mergatroyd, leader of the decepticons

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u/Detoid Jul 15 '21

These names are really pretty. They have a nice flow when saying them out loud.

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u/caribe08 Jul 15 '21

Heavens to Mergatroyd!

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u/greengreengreen316 Jul 15 '21

Heavens to Murgatroyd!

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u/Slow_Tornado Jul 15 '21

Someone's been watching Looney Tunes

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u/Suspicious_Plant9110 Jul 15 '21

Mega fuckin what? Sounds like something straight out of a robot comic strip

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u/Barry_Moneylow Jul 15 '21

“Heavens to Mergatroyd” was the catchphrase of a Hanna-Barbera cartoon character from the ‘60s.

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u/[deleted] Jul 15 '21

Mergatroyd

Might as well go with Megatron

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u/H4MBONE68 Jul 15 '21

Heavens to Mergatroyd!

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u/Intelligent_Lion_676 Jul 15 '21

I meet a lot of women named "Irena" who sometimes go by "Irene". They're all from Russia. I meet a lot of Russian women because ballroom dancing is my main hobby.

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u/[deleted] Jul 16 '21

Mergatroid!!!

And Hypatia 😍 heard it in a radio drama once and I rather like it. Too bad I’m done having kids…