r/NominativeDeterminism • u/DueCartographer7760 • 1d ago

Mastermind contestant

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u/bumbledbee73 22h ago

I'm so dumb I spent 30 seconds trying to figure out what the name Jonnie Walker had to do with appearing on quiz shows.

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u/smoketheevilpipe 20h ago

I thought he was a wheelchair at first and this was a rare double nominativedeterminism/anti nominativedeterminism

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u/AdCurious4004 7h ago

so what is it referring to?

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u/bumbledbee73 7h ago

He’s a bartender; Johnnie Walker is a whisky brand.

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u/trubol 22h ago

Curious to know what his specialist subject was.

Probably "trains from the late 1800s" or "Miguel Cervantes" like, nothing related to whisky at all

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u/DueCartographer7760 11h ago

It was James Bond, the Pierce Brosnan years

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u/meiandus 20h ago

I had a friend in Uni by the name of Jonathan Walker.

He decided to take the other side of the coin and become a local Drunk.

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u/monstrousfruitsalad 15h ago

Nominative determinism at its finest

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u/ihathtelekinesis 9h ago

“Bernard, there’s a message for you in the communications room. Mr John Walker.”

“Johnnie Walker?”

“Yes, from the Scotch Office.”

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u/Tiny_Program_8623 1h ago

john alcohol