Kid: “They sure had weird names back then.”
this post was submitted on 21 Feb 2026
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And to be fair, "Getty" isn't unbelievable at all for the given name of a Founding Father:
- Gunning Bedford Jr.
- Elbridge Gerry (fuck this guy in particular btw)
- Button Gwinnett
- Titus Hosmer
- Francis Lightfoot Lee
- Gouverneur Morris
- Robert Treat Paine
- Charles Cotesworth Pinckney
- Richard Dobbs Spaight
And plenty of non-Founding Fathers had similarly peculiar names. If "Images" weren't such a common English word, I'd say even that would be arguable.
With british surnames like Garlick, Cockburn, Smellie and Gotobed existing, Images seems quite plausible really.
"Back then" meaning anything before 2015
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"Whaddaya mean it's wrong? It says it right there!" - that one kid that always argues about EVERY question they got wrong.