Funny Names

Some thread in the Pit mutated into a thread about funny names. However, it looks like it's petered out, so I'm posting this in a little more appropriate area. Anyway, here's some of my pics:

An obgyn from my hometown: Flamen Ball
Apparently, this isn't that uncommon of a name. Doing a websearch to see if I could find the fellow, I found out a former U.S. Attorney shared the name. That would make him "the Honorable Flamen Ball".

Producer/writer/etc:
Peter Guber
(also amusing - he frequently teams up for projects with Jon Peters)

When filling out surveys in high school, I always preferred Ben Dover, Mike Hunt, and I. M. [insert dirty word].

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"And little Sir John and the nut brown bowl proved the strongest man at last"

I used to work with a guy in San Diego named Fig Newton. I don't know if his parents named him that, but that's what it said on his drivers license and paycheck. I've also met a nurse named Rose Bush.

<< I used to work with a guy in San Diego named Fig Newton. I don't know if his parents named him that, but that's what it said on his drivers license and paycheck. I've also met a nurse named Rose Bush. >>

I work with a lady named Rose Bush. She was just hired about six months ago to be the day shift supervisor. I did a double take the first time I heard her name too. Of course, I knew a guy in hight school named Tom whose mom remarried and wanted her son to take his new stepdad's last name. The problem was that his stepdad's last name was Jefferson. My friend decided to stay with his old last name.

Some of my favorites I have seen:
Katie Rautenbusch
Harry Cockrell
Kim Fuchs

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To deal with men by force is as impractical as to deal with nature by persuasion.

I will not lie. If I am lying, then may a bolt of lightning strike me down this instant.

Ok, over the summer, my cousin had to go to an orientation to some kind of summer school program, and I decided to tag along and listen in (I didn't go to the actual program, though). And there was a Chinese kid there. First name Long, last name Dong. Put it together on your own. It's a legitimate Chinese name, though.

I say, if you're an immigrant, and go to school, why don't you just get an english name? Is it really that hard to legally change your name? (I really don't know, I'm asking). I mean, it's so much easier for people to call me 'Jason' than to call me 'Wing Tseng Cheung'. I was born in Staten Island, NY as Jason, but my parents gave me a Chinese name too.

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I'm ready to meet Him
'Cause where I'm livin' ain't right
Black hate white
White hate black
It's right back to the same fight...

--DMX

My father worked for Social Security and got these from their roles:
Elmer Fuckaway
Violet Hooker

Mom worked in reservations for an airline & one day a woman wanted to make reservations for her daughters Syphilis & Gonorrhea (I doubt that's how she spelled them though)


From my personal experience
April May LeJuene
and
an attorneys office in Fort Worth
Norman & Bates

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Those who can't hear the music, think the dancer is mad.

While browsing through a Department of Defense phonebook, I ran across a Colonel Wympy Pybus.

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While the early bird may get the worm, it's the second mouse that gets the cheese.

I work at a video atore and a couple weird names always pop-up now and then- like:
Dat Ho
Siekh Jabooti (shake ya booty)
Robert R Robertson- why the hell would someone name ther kids like that?



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A common mistake people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools. -Douglas Adams

I used to know a man named Harry Butz. His life was hell.

There is an SF writer named Thomas T. Thomas. Guess what the middle initial stands for.

Some of my favorites I have seen:
Katie Rautenbusch
Harry Cockrell
Kim Fuchs

I went to school with a Kim Fuchs. Weird.

I used to work in an office where we contacted doctor's offices on a daily basis, and we ran across some odd names. A couple memorable ones:

Dr. Safety First
Dr. Safety First, Jr.
Dr. Doktor Doctor

Oh, I forgot to mention the name of an consultant for our company: Gay (Gaye?) Lucy.

If Tuesday Weld married Don March and they had a daughter and named her Tuesday, then the girl would be Tuesday March, 2.

--Phil Harmonic

My wife tells me this story of a redneck couple in Northern Michigan named "Pigg". The had twins and they named them "Ima" and "Yura". The story goes that on their 16th birthday (Michigan age you can change your name, I guess?) they changed their names.

I say its a urban legend, but my wife swears by it.

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'Shut your pie hole'-Jbird

Oh yeah, just remembered another one - Texas A&M's football coach is named R. C. Slocum. R. C. as in Richard C. As in Richard Slocum. Yep, you guessed it, Dick Slocum.


Is it any wonder he goes by the name "R. C."?

A guy who used to work with me was a recent immigrant from Taiwan. His family name was Pang, but his personal name, which he once told me, was too hard for most Americans to pronounce. So some genius, I suppose from the INS or whatever, suggested the name "Peter". I never had the heart to tell him...

The Ima Hogg story I just read somewhere and it is true, but not from Michigan. Somewhere in TX or Missouri, I think. Crud, I wish I could remember where I saw it.

I use to have a client named George Aho. He was very grateful his parents didn't name him Harry.

On one the Teletubbie that I taped off of TV, there is a guy with the last name Highcock. It would be perfect if his first name were Richard, but I think it's Jeff. Of course, being British and all, Highcock is probably pronounced "Smith".

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Ah yes, divorce, fromt he Latin word meaning to rip out a man's genitals through his wallet. - Robin Williams

• New Hampshire politician: Dick Swett. That's what it says on all his campaign ads. If it were me I'd have gone by "Richard"
• El Paso, Tx car dealer: Dick Po. That's when you Reallycan't afford much of a car. . .
• A high school aquaintence: Mary Christmas
• (I saved my favorute for last) An Army aquaintence: Sgt. Dwop. His first name: Wayne.Someone named their kid Wayne Dwop.

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Louis Wu

Dad's schoolmates - Soda Popp and Benjamin Tass (Ben Tass)
My schoolmate - Lee Roy
Tampa law firm - Biggar & Biggar
Tampa gynecologist - Dr. Lipps (don't know his first name - Harry?)

My sister's name: Sandy Seemann
My oral surgeon's firm: Fear, Small, Pickens & Hitchcock (I had Dr. Fear, but always found the combination of Fear & Hitchcock, along with Small & Pickens, interesting).

Somehow while looking for one thing, I ended up on the Lost Alumni Webpage for Harding University in Searcy Arkansas. Bored as I was, I scrolled down the list of names of missing class mates and found a couple of funny names.

1. Myrtle Bumstead
2. Cled Click
3. Charles Richard Holder. (Dick Holder...)
4. Neal Buffaloe (Where the buffalo roam..jokes must have been unbearable.)
5. Elmer Boner. Poor guy, A man with a bad name is already half hung...this guy was double hung.
and guess whose Mother is spanish and father is German:
Mercedes Hechenbleiiner.

Ok, this was a deliberate search of an alumni data base and I came up with a good one:

From Oxford, as in THE Oxford, I found in the graduating class of 1994,
Teddy Dik Hung Wu.

In my high school, they had a wall with the "best boy" awards for each year (this was from before the component schools merged, and I believe that campus was an all male school). We used to laugh at some of the names.

such as:

Michael Onderdonk III
Otto Boos (think in Spanish)
a third, hilarious one which escapes me now. Ah well.

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"I'm just too much for human existence -- I should be animated."
--Wayne Knight

I went to school with a French guy called Nicholas Schiettecat. It probably means somthing different over there.

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It only hurts when I laugh.

I went to school with a french guy named Nicholas Schiettecatt, which probably means something different over there.))) Moonshine

Babblefish translation: Schiettecat means " I fart in your general direction"

(Don't forget to thin your lips and narrow your eyes as you say it, just like a frog.)

I interned at the City/County building here several summers ago. One of the D.A.'s was prosecuting a fellow by the name of Harry Butts.
Also my mom works in a bank and one of her customers got remarried and changed her last name to that of her new husband. She now proudly calls and announces herself, "This is Lotta Dick."

I also went to school with a Barbara Bush, a Michael Myers and Brandy Wine.

a relations of... Ummmm (me?) recently had two sons.

Hunter Taylor, and Ficher Poloque (sp?)
(polo-CHECK)

so Hunter and Fish Pole will have it BAD.

I met a barkeeper in Spain once. Ugly bad-ass brute of 6'6" who said: "If they make trouble...? See this 'ammer.... I hit them over the knuckles or a knee-cap. An 'ammer is not a weapon, it's a tool, hwen the coppers show."
His name was Richard Small, and he had a tattoo of a lightning, much like the emblem of Flash Gordon, on his .... Dick.
And yes, he was called Dick Small. I swear that all this is true, I saw his passport, and he used to show his .... Richard ... to everyonein the bar after hours when he was drunk ... laid it on the counter.
Now, he used to claim that when he was doing his military service in England, there were two other Richards in his platoon. I don't know if this is true, but it's good anyway, as he said they all had a hard time, since the other twos last names were Tiny & Little, respectively.
Nice story though, and the name explains something about his attitude.

ct

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I work in Workers' Compensation and one law firm we have to deal with is called Johnson Cram Harder.

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"I hope life isn't a big joke, because I don't get it," Jack Handy

My mom used to work in retail and she ran into someone named Candy Cane. And I've always been a fan of Dick Trickle (a race car driver)

TheDude

Wow, someone beat me to it. I also worked with a Candy Kane. Candy was a real name, not a nickname. She married into the name Kane, though.

[[Robert R Robertson- why the hell would someone name ther kids like that?]]CowGodMoo


You've never heard of Robbie Robertson?

Sheesh ... kids ...

I was visiting a engine plant in Detroit last week and past a cubicle with the name Sherman Williams on it.


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The only normal people are the one's you don't know very well. -Joe Ancis

I work with a lad whose last name is Wind. He is engaged to a lass whose first name is Misty.

My sixth grade teacher's name was Richard Head. There is a local mortgage broker who advertises on the radio by the name of Harry Glans. Poor bastard. The Detroit Lions had a corner back named Harry Colin. Weren't these folk's parents thinking?

One of my vendors at work is named Dick Grater.

Hard to believe he makes any sales at all. I get uncomfortable just talking to him.

I've seen a lot of medical reports from a surgeon named Dr. Hacker. Sounds like he does his operating with a machete.

I also know an OB-GYN named Dr. Wolf. Great name for a guy who works with women.

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"I hope life isn't a big joke, because I don't get it," Jack Handy

Went to school (briefly - see Squirrel Depravation in Tennessee on the TM page) in Tennessee, and I never met so many people with goofy names:
Sputt Hooper
Scarlett Derryberry
J. Hill (and his brother Moe Hill - no shit!)
John J. Johnson (yeah, middle name too)
Alton Oschner (son of a very famous surgeon by the same name in LA, I think)
Julian Tune
Tucker Hume (hee!)
and more I can't think of right now.

Also used to work in Beverly Hills with a woman named....yup..... Beverly Hill.

And there's some coach or something with the Dodgers named Richard Pole, but goes by the name "Big Dick Pole." Yeesh!



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StoryTyler
Derwood and Kirby's mom

Forgot one...

I used to date a man named Rob Corn, whose ex-wife's name was Candy. Gag! (for those who are following along, Rob is also the man I mention in the "most unusual place you've ever done.....it" thread - wonder what ever happened to that boy?)



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StoryTyler
Derwood and Kirby's mom

Al Bania, Uma P. Chucker, and many more I can't think of right now...


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<<On one the Teletubbie that I taped off of TV, there is a guy with the last name Highcock. It would be perfect if his first name were Richard, but I think it's Jeff. Of course, being British and all, Highcock is probably pronounced "Smith".>>

Nah, you probably pronounce it "Raymond Luxury Yacht".



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Love,
Pippy

And now, for something completely different.

There was a congressman Pickle. And I've heard the name around..it's not too uncommon.
But I went to school with a Pickle girl who's parents had named her Mary Etta.
Not funny in the South.

Mary Etta Pickle: not funny in the South? Well, I'm obviously a damyankee, because I can't see what's funny or unfunny about that name.

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Remember, I'm pulling for you; we're all in this together.
---Red Green

My eighth grade science teacher's name was Carol Teach; I had a classmate named Sandy Banks. And there's an obstetrician in Louisville, Kentucky, named Dr. Baby. And I used to work with David Brinkley and knew his wife, Christy.

When I was in business school, we were once addressed by the daughter of the founder of LearJet (a Mr. Lear). She was a successful businesswoman in her own right, having overcome the fact that her father named her "Shanda"... Talk it out...

I kid you not.

DE

My ex-roomate dated a girl named Amanda Head, & on the first date he joked to her "Just imagine if your dad's name was Richard?" Her reply "It is". DOH!

How can we leave out pro hockey player Ron Tugnutt?

In Illinois there was a prosecutor, I believe, who ran for the Senate. Dick Phelan (pronounced Failin')

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"Anything is peaceful from one thousand, three hundred and fifty-three feet."

I once had a customer named Lon Sippi. Not too bad, but his wife.. Mrs. Sippi.

I work with a Randy Hooker... Great guy, awful name

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PS Have a nice day.