cross-posted from: https://feddit.uk/post/1847272
Barbara Oppenheimer - a retired Boston University professor and grandmother of five based in Newton, Massachusetts - has had quite the summer amid this year’s “Barbenheimer” frenzy.
In an interview with Slate, Oppenheimer revealed that numerous people thought she was joking when she would say her name outloud. The retiree recalled a specifically confusing moment during a recent vacation, saying: “When I checked in at the hotel, I said, ‘Barbie Oppenheimer!’ The guy said, ‘Are you pulling my leg?’”
Same thing happened to my friend, Shrek2 ThePassionoftheChrist in 2004.
Wait. You knew Shree, too?
Did he ever tell you his toy story?
Truth is often stranger than fiction.
I don’t find it that strange really, Barbie is a first name (its a diminutive of Barbara), Oppenheimer is a surname
Also, she actually married someone from the Oppenheimer family and took his name, so
The retired professor also revealed to the outlet that her husband is actually a distant relative of J Robert Oppenheimer; his father is third cousins with the father of the atomic bomb, hence her last name.
