# Born for the Job: Name Edition. **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 23, 2006, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/born-for-the-job-name-edition/361821 "2006-06-23T03:07:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Barrels](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b5a626/32.png) [@Barrels](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barrels)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2006, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/born-for-the-job-name-edition/361821/21 "2006-06-23T18:10:16Z")
My orthpedic surgeon is Dr. Doctor, he works with Dr. Bonebreak. The same HMO has Dr. Peters… The urologist 😃 Barrels ---
**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2006, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/born-for-the-job-name-edition/361821/22 "2006-06-23T18:15:35Z")
Let’s note another NFL player I forgot earlier who should clearly be excluded: Lawyer Milloy. ---
**Author:** ![mamboman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecb155/32.png) [@mamboman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mamboman)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2006, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/born-for-the-job-name-edition/361821/23 "2006-06-23T23:26:20Z")
Some years back, the Queensland Police Force’s Fraud Squad was headed up by a Det. Swindells ---
**Author:** ![Green\_Bean](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/green_bean/32/1760_2.png) [@Green\_Bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Bean)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2006, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/born-for-the-job-name-edition/361821/24 "2006-06-24T00:56:58Z")
There’s a dentist in my hometown named Lou Smoler. (say it out loud) ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2006, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/born-for-the-job-name-edition/361821/25 "2006-06-24T04:59:20Z")
My pre-cal teacher was Sue Lucheon. ---
**Author:** ![ninevah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/46a35a/32.png) [@ninevah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ninevah)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2006, 7:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/born-for-the-job-name-edition/361821/26 "2006-06-24T07:17:22Z")
The Doctor that delivered me (and who was our family doctor for many years) was a Dr. Rush. And continuing the archaeology link, I once heard of an archaeologist who specialised in stone tools. Apparently he named his sons Chip and Flint. > [@cazzle](#): > > Our town had a Dr Skelton. Close but no femur. > > My cousin was in the police force, and caused no end of confusion introducing himself as Senior Sergeant Constable. I gather court appearances were briefly quite farcical as the name/rank confusion unravelled. Um, **Cazzle** , aren’t you forgetting the obvious one about your father’s surname?!?!? (Or have you already posted that in another thread?!) ---
**Author:** ![jackelope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a6a055/32.png) [@jackelope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackelope)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2006, 7:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/born-for-the-job-name-edition/361821/27 "2006-06-24T07:24:07Z")
OK, this isn’t totally in keeeping with the thread, but it’s such an amazing, Yin/Yang name that I have to share: The father-in-law of a friend of mine is named (I am not making this up): **Lee Harvey Kennedy**. He’s a prison warden. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2006, 7:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/born-for-the-job-name-edition/361821/28 "2006-06-24T07:28:50Z")
CNN correspondent Wolf Blitzer, who made his bones covering the blitz of Baghdad (along with Scud Stud Arthur Kent of “whatever happened to” fame). Lesbian activist Chastity Bono always struck me as funny (she’s at least chaste with the boys). There used to be (may still be, not sure) a family of lawyers in Montgomery named “Screws”, some of whom handled personal injury cases in Alabama’s out of control jackpot justice atmosphere. Whenever they made partner it was an ordeal for the partners to put them in the firm’s name- Jones Screws Smith, Jones Smith Screws and Screws Jones & Smith- none of the three really work. I worked with an African American librarian named after his father’s hero from U.S. history— Booker (T. Washington). I’ve worked with two male librarians named Giles, one male and one female, who got the inevitable Buffy references. I have a friend named Jeannie whose husband was career military and retired into the national guard where he made colonel. Until then they were “Major Nelson and Jeannie” (though he didn’t work for NASA and nobody would really want to see her in harem pants). There’s a dentist in Macon GA named Doc Holliday. Here’s the real irony: the famous dentist named Doc Holliday was from Griffin, GA, about 30 minutes from Macon, and while the Macon Doc Holliday is no relation to him his wife, a Griffin girl, is (and fairly closely- a descendant of the original Doc’s sister as memory serves). Years and years ago a hotel I worked at had a convention of physiologists and I had to threaten the desk clerks with decapitation and yodelling not to even think of making comment upon check-in or at any other time about the name of attendee Dr. Frankenstein. “I am guessing that he already knows there’s a literary and movie character of that name.” (I’ll admit I was disappointed when he looked nothing like Gene Wilder.) ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2006, 7:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/born-for-the-job-name-edition/361821/29 "2006-06-24T07:30:36Z")
The above should read “I’ve worked with two librarians named Giles, one male and one female, who got the inevitable Buffy references”- threw in an extra and erroneous male. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2006, 12:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/born-for-the-job-name-edition/361821/30 "2006-06-24T12:25:20Z")
> [@jackelope](#): > > OK, this isn’t totally in keeeping with the thread, but it’s such an amazing, Yin/Yang name that I have to share: > > The father-in-law of a friend of mine is named (I am not making this up): > > **Lee Harvey Kennedy**. > > He’s a prison warden. In a similar vein, the actor set to play John Lennon in the TV movie “John & Yoko: A Love Story” was Mark Lyndsey. He was let go when the producer found out his real name was Mark Lyndsey Chapman (Mark Chapman was Lennon’s killer). As the producer said “Would you like John Kennedy to be portrayed by an actor named Lee Oswald?” ---
**Author:** ![Fretful\_Porpentine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fretful_porpentine/32/2873_2.png) [@Fretful\_Porpentine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fretful_Porpentine)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2006, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/born-for-the-job-name-edition/361821/31 "2006-06-24T16:42:07Z")
There was a teacher at my elementary school named Mrs. Grader. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2006, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/born-for-the-job-name-edition/361821/32 "2006-06-24T18:00:56Z")
I went to a massage therapist once. His name was Dr. Beaton. ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2006, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/born-for-the-job-name-edition/361821/33 "2006-06-24T18:11:11Z")
Ames, Iowa, in the 1940s had a city manager named John Ames (who was not, however, related to the crooked Massachusetts power-broker the town had been named for in 1864). Whether he introduced himself with “Ames is my name, Ames is my game,” I have no idea, but as city managers tend to be pretty straitlaced, I’ll bet he didn’t. ---
**Author:** ![Cockatiel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cockatiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cockatiel)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2006, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/born-for-the-job-name-edition/361821/34 "2006-06-24T18:16:28Z")
I went to an orthodontist named Dr. Bonebreak once. Pity he didn’t become an orthopedist. There’s also a pediatrician named Dr. Hittman in town. ---
**Author:** ![Spongemom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/278dde/32.png) [@Spongemom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spongemom)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2006, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/born-for-the-job-name-edition/361821/35 "2006-06-24T18:24:43Z")
One of my sister’s grade school teachers married a man whose last name was Sippi. ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2006, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/born-for-the-job-name-edition/361821/36 "2006-06-24T18:28:56Z")
There’s a veterinarian around here called Dr. Bone, I bet the dogs just love him. I think he worked with Dr. Howell. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2006, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/born-for-the-job-name-edition/361821/37 "2006-06-24T18:40:26Z")
My cookery teacher: Mrs Burn. Woodwork teacher: Mr Carpeneter. And there’s a union leader in the UK called Rodney Bickerstaffe (union, staff, bicker, geddit?) ---
**Author:** ![seosamh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce7236/32.png) [@seosamh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/seosamh)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2006, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/born-for-the-job-name-edition/361821/38 "2006-06-24T21:29:35Z")
Back in the 1970s, there was a Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery at Manchester University called Kneebone. ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2006, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/born-for-the-job-name-edition/361821/39 "2006-06-24T22:27:34Z")
In Fremont, California. There was this sign on the side of a Medical group’s building: Dr. Chew. Dentist ---
**Author:** ![jakeline](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a8b319/32.png) [@jakeline](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jakeline)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2006, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/born-for-the-job-name-edition/361821/40 "2006-06-25T04:31:26Z")
I used to be a bank teller, and my last name was Penn. So, my business cards read, “Jakeline Penn, Teller.” I think I did end up getting Penn and Teller to sign one, but I’ll be damned if I can find it. Rats! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/born-for-the-job-name-edition/361821.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/born-for-the-job-name-edition/361821.md?page=3)