• @PrefersAwkward
        link
        English
        302 months ago

        Well, if you have just 1 name, then technically, it’s your first, middle, and last name at the same time

        • @[email protected]
          link
          fedilink
          English
          132 months ago

          I can get behind it being a first and last name simultaneously, but can it be a middle name if it’s not surrounded evenly on either side by another name.

          I guess we could say it is equally surrounded by nothing and therefore in the middle. I’m overthinking!!

          • @PrefersAwkward
            link
            English
            52 months ago

            I see your point. It’s much weirder to say one thing is also the middle thing. It’s probably much safer to say you have a middle name only if you have an odd number of names greater than one. You safely (IMO) have two middle names if you have an even number of names greater than two.

        • @ChicoSuave
          link
          English
          82 months ago

          The business cards are just ridiculous.

          Lizardman Lizardman, Lizardman

      • Xanthrax
        link
        English
        42 months ago

        The captions are off, originally it was, “Name, race, and occupation?” It was the only picture I could find, though.

  • @MimicJar
    link
    English
    822 months ago

    You’re a mean one, Mr. Grinch.

    So likely his name, possibly only his last name.

    • konalt
      link
      English
      322 months ago

      Maybe that’s meant in a derogatory way though

      • @MimicJar
        link
        English
        422 months ago

        The entire song is derogatory. If you sing, “You’re a butthole, Mr. Stinky”, then you haven’t identified who you’re singing about, unless someone is actually named Mr. Stinky.

          • @MimicJar
            link
            English
            72 months ago

            Well I’ll give you that one. I guess it’s possible the Grinch, having lived nearby for a while, earned that as his nickname or also know as. Still not his job or ethnicity.

        • (⬤ᴥ⬤)
          link
          fedilink
          English
          32 months ago

          does this imply that the song wasn’t actually talking about the Grinch and he just projected onto it?

  • @wiLD0
    link
    English
    62
    edit-2
    2 months ago

    ‘Grinch’ is a holistic integration of multi-categorical nomenclatures.

    • @grue
      link
      English
      772 months ago

    • @gndagreborn
      link
      English
      132 months ago

      Im going to use that on my friend who works in HR

  • @IMongoose
    link
    English
    282 months ago

    I can’t find a specific image of it, only a reddit post talking about it, but in Grinch (2018) he buys green hair dye. I interpret that to mean he is just a normal whoville resident, but dyed green. I suppose his green grinch hair could be graying and he wants to look young, or he could just be some other color and chooses to be green, but I like to imagine him as some crazy naked hermit that makes himself green and everyone else just puts up with it.

    • @[email protected]
      link
      fedilink
      English
      182 months ago

      I don’t buy it. Anything beyond 1966 is not canon in Dr. Seuss’ The Grinch-universe.

    • @[email protected]
      link
      fedilink
      English
      172 months ago

      In Dr Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000), he was green since the day he was born drifted in on his pumbersella.

  • TheTechnician27
    link
    English
    152 months ago

    It’s most likely either a species (like the sneetches) or, to my mind, a descriptor given to him by the narrator. Keep in mind no character (namely the grinch, who does speak) ever refers to himself as such. Sort of like if someone narrated your life and called you “the grouch”.

  • @lath
    link
    English
    142 months ago

    It’s a personality.

  • 2ugly2live
    link
    English
    122 months ago

    I thought it was a character trait. I assumed he had a “Who” name, but no one uses it because he was being a dick all the time so they called him “the Grinch.”

  • @LovableSidekick
    link
    English
    5
    edit-2
    2 months ago

    It’s his title, short for Exalted Grandiose Grinchimus Maximus de la Biblioteca.

  • @dil
    link
    English
    52 months ago

    He’s Mr Grinch, so it’s at least his last name (and also explains him being THE Grinch who stole christmas). It’s possible that it’s also his job (see “Smith”), but prefer that grinching is named after him, a la Scrooge