Probably most of you guys knew this one already, but I was transcribing some notes for a history professor the other day and came across "Earl Snake-hips Tucker".
Hey, it’s never too late to learn! It also urgently reminded me to get on the Dope before the workday was over.
I was gazing at a package of Hot Pockets I purchased for my children and saw that the product contains “0 g Trans Fat.” Lightbulb!
What’s that one guy? WOOKINPANUB? Or something like that? Well him. His name didn’t hit me for a while. Also, I apparently can’t read and misread vivalostwages and violeta something or other for a long time.
I always read that as “wookie in a pub” 
And I always assumed it was a Buckwheat rendering of “Looking for Love.”
It is the Buckwheat song, pretty sure she’s (think she’s female) said that in a thread before. Though I always understood it as either wookie in a pub or working in a pub for awhile.
Doesn’t seem like a wordy person like you to forget a name that distinct, even after 45 years 
I’ve never seen an episode of Full House, so I was mighty surprised to stumble across Kimmy Gibbler on IMDB one day.
Yours. I had to look it up because it sounded rather ominous. For the longest time, I just thought it was something that a 17th century mom might do after reading a bedtime story. ding ding “That’s all for tonight, children. We’ll read more tomorrow night. Hop into bed, now.” candle snuffed
I recognized yours right away, but did you just add the dash to it recently?
That’s damn hilarious. I can totally see the scene, or maybe like if she had a giant gonging churchbell hanging in the room. “Go to sleep!” GONGGGG, GOOONGGG
Nope, I was originally going to put spaces between all the words, but the character limit maxed out, so I tried putting spaces between the three phrases, but I was still 1 character short. I had to choose between having it all one word and sticking in a space or hyphen somewhere. It looked a bit long all together, so I went with the hyphen. It’s been in there since I signed up, though.
Funny what our brains notice and not. Or maybe you just recently jumped into my universe.
Then there’s the one dopername that’s about the three inner ear bones (that sounds like an incantation).
incus, malleus, STAPES!!
Ellen Cherry, I love when someone discovers Tom Robbins and figures out your username. And when someone figures out Sue Duhnym. Or Ellis Dee.
I always thought it was a play off of Captain Spaulding, (the infamous Groucho Marx character.) Another reason why I love this place.
Lobsang
TVeblen
ultrafilter
There’s a lot more name’s that I’ve run into unexpectedly IRL, but these are the only ones that come to mind.
I had the tendency to see it as Ichbin Cubist, also leaning on the art angle. However, ‘Ich bin Du bist’ is German for ‘I am, you are’.
I never thought of Wookie In a Pub, but I do think it sounds so funny I’ve called one or another of my children Wookin’ Panoob a few times. 
Hey! Mine is punny; it means “anonymous”. Get it? For a message board?
Sigh.
Finally reading a Discworld novel for the first time is really enlightening with regard to this issue.
A radio station was running a competition – words that weren’t in the dictionary yet could still be used in a sentence that would make logical sense. The prize was a trip to Bali.
DJ: “96 FM here, what’s your name?”
Caller: “Hi, my name’s Dave.”
DJ: “Dave, what’s your word?”
Caller: “Goan… spelt G-O-A-N pronounced ‘go-an’.”
DJ: “You are correct, Dave, ‘goan’ is not in the dictionary. Now, for a trip to Bali: What sentence can you use that word in that would make sense?”
Caller: “Goan fuck yourself!”
The DJ cut the caller off and took other calls, all unsuccessful until:
DJ: “96 FM, what’s your name?”
Caller: “Hi, me name’s Jeff.”
DJ: “Jeff, what’s your word?”
Caller: “Smee, spelt S-M-E-E, pronounced ‘smee’.”
DJ: “You are correct, Jeff, ‘smee’ is not in the dictionary. Now, for a trip to Bali: What sentence can you use that word in that would make sense?”
Caller: “Smee again! Goan fuck yourself!”?
(Originally seen at: http://www.rawilson.com/jokes.shtml)
Sue Duhnym, mentioned above, was my favorite “oh!” moment. I actually PMd **Freddy the Pig **to ask if it was what I thought it was. Out of context it sounds sort of mafia or cretin. But it’s also from a series of awesome kid’s books (my first cat was named Jinx), so I had to know. Always makes me smile when I see it.
I always assume Deadheads will recognize mine right away, but wonder how many others parse out the Rhythm part and add the vowels to Devil.