Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for June 04, 2023

Icelandic phone books are alphabetized by first name because Icelandic people have patronymics (Björk Guðmundsdóttir — Björk, daughter of whose father is named Guðmund — and Stefán Karl Stefánsson — Stefán Karl son of whose father is named Stefán — for example).

Icelandic last names are a sort of weird system, so I can see why they’d do it that way.

That sea slug is a really incredible animal. Aside from just looking amazing, their ability to take a single specific complex kind of cell from other extremely dangerous creatures (like the Portuguese Man O’War) and then keep them alive in highly specialized parts of their own bodies. There’s not really anything else like it.

Gilligan is his last name. Willy is his first name. It was mentioned on the never aired pilot on their radio’s newscast about the wreck.

Fun fact: on the early episodes of Gilligan’s Island, the theme song doesn’t mention “the Professor and Mary Ann”… it replaces their names with “all the rest”. By the way, is the name “Mary Ann” or “Marianne”?

Phone book?

That’s right, in Iceland I’m at the top of the list, and in Denmark I’m at the bottom. ~ Aaron Zwick, well not yet because I live in Buffalo, but still

May the sword be with you as it is with Marie. And gesundheit.

Perhaps Maynard Gilligan Krebs?

Um, they’re wrong about that. Sources say that Gilligan’s first name was Willie.

When my boy was little I had him organize my CDs, and the bands that started with ‘the’ pile was much bigger than all the other piles…

All the characters had been given full names, but Sherwood Schwartz forbade their use during the show. Skipper Jonas Grumby, Willie Gilligan. I heard Gilligan was addressed as Willie once on the never aired pilot episode.

Nobody CARED whether ‘Gilligan’ was his first, or last name.

I’ve heard of people fascinated by Blue Dragon sea slugs picking them up out of curiosity and getting poisoned. I mean, it isn’t a near death sentence like a blue ringed octopus, but come on people, NEVER pick up a vibrantly colored wild animal!

I could have sworn there was a newscast in Gilligan’s Island that told all of the real names. Skipper was Jonas Grumby and Gilligan was Willie Gilligan and Mary Anny was Mary Ann Summers.

Yeah, in Iceland, it’s traditional that a son’s last name is the father’s first name plus “son”, and the daughter’s is the father’s first name plus “dottir”. Did I mention inbreeding exists there?

I wanted to change Mary Ann’s last name to mine, but I was too young.

excuse me — Gilligan, affectionately called “little buddy” by the “Skipper”, is the bumbling, dimwitted, accident-prone first mate of the SS Minnow. His first name, given in the pilot episode, is Willie.

I thought his name was Gilligan Zyland.

Some things do make it to RBION as fact but are not. ~ Willie Gilligan

STOP DELETING MY COMMENTS! What about Skipper and that girl Ginger?

Kristen Cumings has created the iconic Rosie the Riveter poster using 12,000 jelly beans.

May the Lord be with you as He is with me.

Flush with sea water and wipe with seaweed – because they can’t kelp it.

BTW, U.S. Naval ships use saltwater for sewage and fire fighting. BION.

I believe that in the first episode, the crew and passengers were all named in a radio broadcast about the missing ”Minnow”. They were Jonas Grumby, (Skipper), Willie Gilligan, Thurston Howell the Third and wife Lovey, Professor Roy Hinckly, Movie Star Ginger Grant, and farm girl Mary Ann Frobisher.

HIS NAME WILLIAM "WILLIE"GILLIGAN.

Actually Gilligan’s first name was Willie. It was revealed in Season 1, Episode 1

See comment & link by LaurelAnnHardy.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/willy-gilligan/