Apocrophyal Strange Names

I once caled MBNA to discuss a problem with my credit card, and I’m fairly certin the womon who I spoke with said her name was Chlamydia.

Actually one of the killers to talk some people out of is various spellings that sound like Chlamydia.

There was the ancient middle-eastern potentate, Sultan Pepper…

There’s a urological surgeon in Austin named Dick Chopp. He vasectomized one of my friends.

And for the record, it’s spelled “Shanda” - no “Crystal”, just “Shanda Lear.”

I first heard that in grade school, circa 1970, and I didn’t believe it then. However, I’ve seen it verified many times since – most recently in the Snopes link provided by hajario, above.

On one team that I saw in two tournaments a year in high school (which I won’t name), there were three great wrestling names:

Michael Huntz, who went by ‘Mike’ on the bracket sheets (leading to endless consternation from frustrated announcers)
Matt Campion, pronounced “Champion”
Mike Swettmore

I know a Chinese woman who named her twins “Glonous” and “Cultual.”

We have a politician here in NSW who rejoices in the name Richard Face.

I’ve personally been to a Dr Killingback. Naturally he was a proctologist.

And we have employees in my company called Dick Hacking, Rod Steele and Chuck Flood (FYI “chuck” in Australia means what “barf” means in the US ).

Years ago, I took a phone message for a fellow college student from a woman named Vagina. Really blew me away. I had to ask her to spell it just to make sure I hadn’t misheard.

I see someone has already mentioned Michael Hunt.
It seems he’d always show up in class with Richard Hertz whenever there was a substitute teacher.

When our school bud, “Chuck” Gum, got his driver’s license, he wouldn’t show it to us. We wrestled him for it; his real name on the card was Chou Wing. :eek: :smiley:

I knew a chinese exchange student named Chon Wang

Ok, not really. I saw it in Shanghai Noon. But it still cracks me up like a 12 year old little girl.

And if you’re childish and British, you can enjoy the existence of Randy Gaylord.

Well, you know the Managing Director of the Pfizer plant in Ireland where they make the Viagra is called Willy Power, don’t you?

No, of course he isn’t but my boss believed me when I said that to him. For about a minute.
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In my High School there was a girl who graduated loooong before I attended, but who’s name was still quite real (It was on the class picture from I believe 1980) who’s name was…Anita Dick. Everyone who ever went to my school knew about this one.

Also, in my job I have hundreds of applications come across my desk in a day, and there is a man living in Illinois who name is Ulick Sweeney. I swear before you all that I’m telling the truth.

Am I the only person who’s heard of Vaselina and Q-Tippa? Supposedly the twins were named after things on their mother’s night table in the maternity ward.

And who wouldn’t want to be named Randy Johnson (Big Unit indeed!), or better yet, Magic Johnson.

I used to have a client named Dick Pounder, and I’ve also known people named Randy Sheets and Penny Stamps.

But best of all: in the mid-70s I lived near an office buiding that had a sign in front: Seymour Kunz, Gynecologist. I always suspected him of changing his name to that, after choosing his profession.