I never realized that the name Magic Johnson has comedic capabilities. My goodness. It was just like a little comedic lightbulb. I must be the last person on earth to realize that. 
I would have thought the song written about him, Puff the Magic Johnson, would have given it away.
Even though it was a serious situation, I was rolling when I heard the name of the FBI agent who gave the press conference after the Centennial Park bombing: Woody Johnson.
Incidentally, I used to work with a woman named Felicia Johnson.
Also, Dewey Wong.
Charity Muff is a terrible name for a baby girl. Except that Dr. & Mrs. Muff didn’t think so!
My married name is Johnson, and we have two sons, so we had some pretty damn funny conversations about baby names!
A friend of mine dated a girl named Trixie O’Rear.
In high school I knew a girl named Emma Lester, and another called Sharra Friend. We also have a friend who is quite fat, and thus everyone calls him “Tiny.” His last name, sadly, is Johnson. He’s an asian immigrant, and we heard him introduce himself to several times to ladies as “Tiny Johnson” before he was clued in. :smack:
As I mentioned in another thread, I know a real-life Anita Dick.
She has a cousin named, oddly, Richard Dick. :dubious:
Heh. I used to be friends with a wonderful woman named Anita, who married a guy with the last name of Peters. I asked her why she took his last name, and it just never occurred to her not to.
Bless her heart.
‘Dick Dick’? Sounds like a dwarf antelope.
An asian immigrant named Johnson???
I assume he isn’t really an “asian immigrant” in a classical sense then?
I don’t get it.
You realized it before me. Man. I’m not normally one to miss something like that…I’m losing it!
Anita Peters…I need a peter(s)…
I met a Richard Long at a bar once. He was fortunate in that his name, uh, was aptly descriptive…
He was very new in the country, but his family changed their last name when they got here. His real name is absolutely unpronouncable, hence, we dubbed him “Tiny.”
I knew a guy in college whose name was Randy Dick. Don’t know whether he lived up to his name, though.
My dad told me about a kid in his school whose last name was Bates. His classmates (boys) loved calling him “Master Bates.”
I just have to say that every time I read the thread title, I get the tune of Willy Wonka’s I’ve Got A Golden Ticket playing in my head.
I’ve met two generations of Dick Lusts. (And granddaddy, who I never saw, was reportedly a “Dick Lust,” too.) A close associate of the middle “Dick Lust” was named “Peter Lunt,” which probably wouldn’t have been funny on its own, but became hysterical as a sort of aggregate thing.
I have an ad in for a room to let and received this in my inbox the other day:
I would really hate to be a 22-year-old girl with that name going to school in Canada. It’s a nice name but it’s almost Joycean in its evocativeness. Damn.
Don’t feel bad, I never caught that either, until this thread.
I’ve seen Master Wan-Ka around here for ever, and assumed it was some sort of zen reference. Only yesterday I realised his name’s a pun, too. :smack:
Crap, is there anything on this Earth that doesn’t go right over my head? 