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[–] IMongoose@lemmy.world 9 points 4 hours 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.

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 3 points 5 hours ago

All of the above.

[–] Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 20 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

It’s a title, like village idiot.

[–] MeThisGuy@feddit.nl 6 points 8 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 4 points 5 hours ago

Keep my wife's name out of your goddamned mouth!

[–] Xanthrax@lemmy.world 135 points 13 hours ago (2 children)
[–] 69420@lemmy.world 9 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Your name is Lizardman Lizardman?

[–] PrefersAwkward@lemmy.world 19 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

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

[–] dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

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@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours 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@lemmy.world 8 points 10 hours ago

The business cards are just ridiculous.

Lizardman Lizardman, Lizardman

[–] wiLD0@lemmy.world 44 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (2 children)

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

[–] gndagreborn@lemmy.world 9 points 9 hours ago

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

[–] K0W4LSK1@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 9 hours ago
[–] MimicJar@lemmy.world 64 points 13 hours ago (3 children)

You're a mean one, Mr. Grinch.

So likely his name, possibly only his last name.

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 10 hours ago

Full name Chauncey Tiffany Grinch.

[–] konalt@lemmy.world 22 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Maybe that's meant in a derogatory way though

[–] MimicJar@lemmy.world 28 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

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.

[–] Fiivemacs@lemmy.ca 19 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_Edmunds

Raymond Edmunds (born 12 March 1944 at Queen Victoria Hospital, Melbourne, Australia), also known as the Donvale Rapist and Mr. Stinky

[–] MimicJar@lemmy.world 5 points 12 hours 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.

[–] nicknonya@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 9 hours ago

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

[–] bstix@feddit.dk 6 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Yes, his first name is Ethan.

[–] DandomRude@lemmy.world 2 points 11 hours ago
[–] cmhickman358@thelemmy.club 33 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

He's not a who, he's a what

[–] riskable@programming.dev 9 points 12 hours ago (1 children)
Which is why
High in the sky 
The Grinch didn't like Whoville very much
Every one was so-and-so, someone or such
[–] LMagicalus@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 4 hours ago

Can I ask what you use for the text formatting and colors? Ive seen this tool used a bunch on lemmy, and am quite curious.

[–] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 11 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

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".

[–] hungprocess@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)
[–] lath@lemmy.world 12 points 13 hours ago (1 children)
[–] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 13 points 13 hours ago (1 children)
[–] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Like his decision not to wear pants?

[–] bahbah23@lemmy.world 10 points 13 hours ago (1 children)
[–] tacosanonymous@lemm.ee 8 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

Grinching wouold be a nice new slang term.

[–] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 8 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Grinching – the opposite of gooning.

"Yo fam you wanna go gooning later?"

"Nah I'm hard grinching rn fr fr"

[–] PervServer@lemmynsfw.com 5 points 10 hours ago

Lil' bro is skibidi grinching smh

[–] riskable@programming.dev 3 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Really grinched it for the win

[–] TheImpressiveX@lemm.ee 12 points 12 hours ago

I loved the part of the book where the Grinch said "it's Grinchin' time!" and grinched all over the Whos.

[–] Trollivier@sh.itjust.works 5 points 13 hours ago
[–] unknown1234_5@kbin.earth 3 points 12 hours ago

it's a nickname

[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml -5 points 13 hours ago