I know it's silly and superficial, but the name "Markwayne Mullin"...

[Tommy Carcetti]

...sounds like the name of a serial killer from the 1970s.

Sorry about that, just had to get that off my chest.

Happy Friday. Carry on.

[True Dough]

1. Sounds rather judgemental based on a name.

Please, judge him on his lack of logic and grammar...


RAJU: You'll concede this is war?

MARKWAYNE MULLIN: We haven't declared war. They declared war on us

RAJU: The president called it war and Secretary Hegseth called it war

REPORTER: When you walked up just now, you called it war

MULLIN: Okay. That was a misspoke.

[3_Limes]

3. I hear ya.

But with a name like that, it's really hard not to.

[3_Limes]

2. I was thinking of a meth-addicted, backwoods hillbilly, but yeah.

Same kind of thing.

[chicoescuela]

6. Kinda like Jim Bob Cooter. I think he was actually a big time college football coach.

[Swede]

4. If Markwayne Mullen was driving around in a white van, no one would get in.

[hlthe2b]

5. That his parents chose to combine two first names is bad enough but that he didn't

at least separate the two legally (making one a middle name)--even if he chose to still use them both--well, hardly the sharpest "tool" in the box, but a "tool" nonetheless.

[William Seger]

22. That's the best they could do for a compromise

Probably played rock-paper-scissors to see if it was Markwayne or Waynemark.

[Goonch]

7. ;-{)....

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[Ocelot II]

8. Funny you should say that. "Wayne" seems to be serial killers' favorite middle name.

John Wayne Gacy
Elmer Wayne Henley
Monty Wayne Lamb
Alexander Wayne Watson, Jr.,

And many more: https://freakonomics.com/2006/09/the-next-time-your-daughter-brings-home-a-new-boyfriend-be-sure-to-ask-his-middle-name/

[carpetbagger]

23. Truth, and then on top of it there's Mr. Bobbitt of the thingie fame.

[bleedingulcers]

24. THANK YOU for this....

I was just sitting here trying to remember some of the serial killers with Wayne as their middle name; I noticed years ago that it seemed to be a weirdly frequent thing. Sure way beyond what any random distribution of names would produce!

[Probatim]

30. Maybe Moskowitz will mistakenly call him MarkWayne Gacy during hearings.

[sop]

9. 'The Number of Murderers and Murder Suspects With the Middle Name 'Wayne' Is Insane'

"On the topic of infamous murders, few are wider known than serial killer John Wayne Gacy, the 'killer clown,' who murdered almost three dozen boys and young men during the 1970s. Then, of course, there’s Elmer Wayne Henley—quite a bit lesser known than Gacy—who was sent to prison in 1974 for the spree of murders he committed alongside Dean Allen Corll. Then there’s Monty Wayne Lamb, serving a life sentence for a triple homicide in Dallas. And Alexander Wayne Watson, Jr., convicted of killing multiple victims."

"We think you see the pattern: They all have the middle name 'Wayne.' It seems coincidental, but 'Wayne' turns out to be a really common middle name for both convicted (and alleged) murderers. So much so, in fact, that News of the Weird‘s Chuck Shepherd kept a running tally of them through 2008; and as of now, his list of killer Waynes has 223 people on it."

More at link:

https://www.insidehook.com/culture/amount-murderers-murder-suspects-middle-name-wayne-insane

(I saw this information about "Wayne" on another thread, but can't recall the name of the original poster...sorry.)

[MustLoveBeagles]

13. Is it just killers from 70's and 80's?

I just assumed that a lot of parents named their sons after John Wayne.

[Johonny]

10. Wayne Mark McMuffin

Half baked and ready to fake.

[Quiet Em]

11. a Bluesky poster said it sounded like the name of a cocktail

and I can't get that out of my head now.

[johnnyfins]

12. The fake tuff guy who hid behind a row of seats

on 1/6/2021. Always remember that.

[kentuck]

14. All he needs is a mullet...

Then he would fit the role perfectly. Mullet Mullin

[Tommy Carcetti]

15. And if he liked getting breakfast at McDonalds...

...He'd be Mullet McMuffin Mullin.

[Javaman]

16. it's the classic "Wayne" serial killer middle name. nt

[lame54]

17. Is he SSS...

Short Stupid Strangler

[Martin68]

18. Sounds like a character in a James Joyce novel.

[markodochartaigh]

29. Stately,

plump Mark Wayne Mullen came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed.

[Martin68]

34. Exactly!

[Ol Janx Spirit]

19. Corey will just call him Kristi...

...in the bedroom of the 737....

[Vinca]

20. LOL - it really does. Maybe because it triggers the thought of John Wayne Gacy.

[nuxvomica]

21. His parents obviously couldn't agree on anything

It must have been a very dysfunctional upbringing.

[LeftinOH]

25. The character "Richard Wayne Gary-Wayne" from the TV show

"The Unbreakeable Kimmy Schmidt" was a parody of the many serial killers/assassins who have had "Wayne," or "Lee" in their names.

[Arrgh]

31. You beat me to it.

I think of John Hamm's character every time I hear that yahoo's name.

[Whyisthisstillclose]

26. He will kill or maim more people than any serial killer

[appleannie1]

27. Since he is a plumber, he is used to shoveling crap so he should fit right in this administration.

[jfz9580m]

28. My mentor mocked him years ago

I have a mentor I consider family (obviously I rarely contact him), but he joked about this guy in the context of him challenging a pro-union organizer to hand to hand combat or some such thing.

One thing I do like about guys like these is they are all the way over there. I am more irked by these Indian creeps with one foot there and one here (e.g.: that creepy Jan 6 loser Vincent Palathingal, this super sleazy guy Ragy Thomas, this nightmarish creep Shalab Kumar).

You can have them btw..a gift from India. But they should stay over there. We don’t them here. We have our own, indigenous creeps..thank you very much..

[czarjak]

32. Don't really Tom Cotton to Markwayne either!

[BobTheSubgenius]

33. We are locked in what might be mortal combat with an enemy that absolutely EMBODIES silly and superficial.

Don't even worry about seeming a little bit the same. If only their horrible traits and instincts began and ended at silly and superficial.

[ms liberty]

35. Bobby Joe Long, serial killer in Tampa Fla in the mid eighties

He was why I kept an axe by my bed.