I'm going to tell you what Amos means, just as soon as I can determine what the heck your question is really referring to. Amos as a name is a guy from the bible. He had prophecies and he lived near Jerusalem. If you gave me a random, multiple choice test on all characters from the Bible where I would be guessing, and rest assured, they would be total guesses. What the profession of each character in the Bible was, I would guess every single time that the guy was either a fisherman or a shepherd. I'd be totally sunk if shepherd and fisherman were both options in the question. But this dude was a shepherd.
This seems like the kind of question that someone asks Google by accident though. I mean, how many people think Amos means something besides it being a name? Isn't it always capitalized? Amos also got his own book in the Bible, forgot to mention that earlier. The name in Hebrew means burden. This means that most of the people that I've worked with over the last few years should have been named Amos, male and female. Maybe they could have been name Amosina or something like that, I don't know.
So far, I've only found information linking the name Amos to the Bible and to Hebrew translation type stuff. I'm starting to believe that this really is the only thing that this can mean. People really are out there wanting to know more about Amos and I've mistakenly predicted that there could be more than meets the eye to this question. But, I'm going to keep looking for more stuff anyway because that's the Comedy Apprentice way baby.
I always feel the need to be more silly, so I searched for "Famous Amos" and what do you know, something came up. Always makes me so happy when I can find something on the internet quickly. This is because I grew up in the days of dial up. This was a time where you had to plan your searches to be something critical that you must know for the completion of homework or something stupid that your parents wanted you to look up for them. Operating the computer and fixing the VCR where pretty much my part-time jobs from ages 9-12.
Anyway, this horrendous article came up on Wikipedia for Famous Amos cookies. I say horrendous because there are three citations on here about all the things the article lacks. I don't actually know if that's common or not, this might have been the first time I've ever noticed the needed citations thing. I'm not big on details unless it really, really matters. I love the font that they used for Famous Amos.
Says here that the guy who founded the company did so with money borrowed from Marvin Gaye and Helen Reddy. 25k in cold hard cash for this cookie company. It doesn't say anywhere on there that it was given in cash but I hope it was. The reason why he knew those big celebs is because he was a talent agent. He loved to bake cookies and send them out to possible clients in order to entice them into doing business. Nowadays, you'd have to run the cookies through a severe high level chemical testing trial before consuming them.
Apparently, Wally Amos as he was called loved baking cookies so much that he decided to start this company. His friends told him he should and he didn't seem to want to do the talent agent thing anymore so he borrowed the money and the whole thing took off. As with most depressing business tales, eventually it slowed down and ended up changing hands a bunch. Kellogg owned it for a while but now the guys who make Nutella own it. But at least it still exists. So, long live anybody named Amos, Amosina and the Famous Amos brand. I had no clue how to end this post so there ya go.
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