# 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:** 3
**Author:** ![Sarahfeena](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sarahfeena/32/519_2.png) [@Sarahfeena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sarahfeena)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2006, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/born-for-the-job-name-edition/361821/41 "2006-06-25T14:37:01Z")
I met a librarian recently whose last name was Book. She said the family joke is that she should have been named Rita. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2006, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/born-for-the-job-name-edition/361821/42 "2006-06-25T14:43:12Z")
Well, there’s Priscilla Feral, the head of PETA. But she changed her name to that, so it probably doesn’t count. I knew a guy in the Navy with the last name of Sailor. Dang, I see these sorts of names all the time, but can’t think of any now. ---
**Author:** ![Cazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cazzle/32/75_2.png) [@Cazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cazzle)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2006, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/born-for-the-job-name-edition/361821/43 "2006-06-25T14:45:38Z")
> [@ninevah](#): > > Um, **Cazzle** , aren’t you forgetting the obvious one about your father’s surname?!?!? (Or have you already posted that in another thread?!) Well, his official job title is Fitter and Machinist, which isn’t as funny, but I do find it amusing that he is now the president of the local wood craft group. My father’s surname is, of course, Turner, and turning is both his job and his hobby. 😃 And as I’m sure I’ve mentioned a million times, one of his Turner aunts married a Woodyard, two other relatives married Miss Wood and Miss Greenwood respectively. Oh, and I’m probably the only person in the world who was amused when we got a new truck driver at work whose name was Laurie (Lorry). ---
**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 25, 2006, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/born-for-the-job-name-edition/361821/44 "2006-06-25T14:57:04Z")
Bridgeport, CT, mid 1940s. The flu or the measles or something is going around like crazy. **Mama Doug** is about ten and very _very_ sick. A doctor calls Mr. Gabriel, the nearest druggist, to prescribe medicine and have it delivered. Mr. G’s car pulls up in front of the house, but he’s way backed up on deliveries and can’t spare much time. So he just goes up the drive and honks. **Mama Doug** , listless with a high fever in a house of easily alarmed female relatives, causes unimaginable consternation when she calls out to her older sister: **"I HEAR GABRIEL BLOWING HIS HORN!"** ---
**Author:** ![Shayna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shayna/32/17976_2.png) [@Shayna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shayna)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2006, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/born-for-the-job-name-edition/361821/45 "2006-06-25T16:04:40Z")
There’s an attorney here in Los Angeles name [Soo Hoo](http://pview.findlaw.com/view/2844946_1?noconfirm=0). ---
**Author:** ![Linty\_Fresh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Linty\_Fresh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Linty_Fresh)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2006, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/born-for-the-job-name-edition/361821/46 "2006-06-25T16:51:44Z")
**Marina Stepanova** was a Women’s 400 Hurdle champion during the 70’s and 80’s. ---
**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 25, 2006, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/born-for-the-job-name-edition/361821/47 "2006-06-25T17:20:00Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > I knew a guy in the Navy with the last name of Sailor. I knew a guy in the _Air Force_ with the last name of Sailor. He chose the Air Force over the Navy for exactly this reason. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2006, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/born-for-the-job-name-edition/361821/48 "2006-06-25T17:37:27Z")
The president of St. Francis University in Loretto, PA, when my brother was a student (mid-90s) was Father Christian… ---
**Author:** ![Scribble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scribble/32/3317_2.png) [@Scribble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scribble)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2006, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/born-for-the-job-name-edition/361821/49 "2006-06-25T20:04:28Z")
I once knew a guy named John Johns. He was a plumber. No, I’m not making that up. ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2006, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/born-for-the-job-name-edition/361821/50 "2006-06-25T20:24:40Z")
I swear on a stack of Bibles, my first gynecologist was named Dr. Bush. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Rieux](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@Dr.Rieux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Rieux)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2006, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/born-for-the-job-name-edition/361821/51 "2006-06-25T21:08:52Z")
I once went to a dentist named Trueblood to have some teeth pulled. ---
**Author:** ![MannyL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba8739/32.png) [@MannyL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MannyL)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2006, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/born-for-the-job-name-edition/361821/52 "2006-06-26T00:44:48Z")
> [@WhyNot](#): > > I swear on a stack of Bibles, my first gynecologist was named Dr. Bush. Was his first name Harry? ---
**Author:** ![Helen\_s\_Eidolon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/8edcca/32.png) [@Helen\_s\_Eidolon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Helen_s_Eidolon)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2006, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/born-for-the-job-name-edition/361821/53 "2006-06-26T02:34:23Z")
My optometrists’ names (father and son) are Dr. Spector. ---
**Author:** ![Red\_Stilettos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/fbc32d/32.png) [@Red\_Stilettos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Red_Stilettos)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2006, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/born-for-the-job-name-edition/361821/54 "2006-06-26T02:50:57Z")
There’s a well-known (well, in the field, at least) researcher who studies iron utilization in bacteria. His first name is Ferric. ---
**Author:** ![Fetchund](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b2d939/32.png) [@Fetchund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fetchund)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2006, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/born-for-the-job-name-edition/361821/55 "2006-06-26T03:13:33Z")
Ohboyohboyohboy!!! Finally, a thread that I may be able to contribute to!!! Long ago, I worked in an insurance firm that insured lawyers, CPA’s and Realtors. I had so much fun writing down the names that came across my desk. Remeber, the following were all real law firms or CPA’s. Would you trust… Tortalot Guller Hassler Cadle and Cheatham Eddie D. Crook Lawless and Ha Fink and Fink Smart and Biggar Lesser and Bader TC Crooks Charles Weasel Power Hagler Juris Dumpis Feder, Fine, Poisson Dunn and Conner Bookkeeping Beery and Beery Savage and Killian G. C. Flake I’ve got more, but I’m so glad that the list I typed up years ago and stuffed in the “obscure things that make me laugh” file finally came in handy! ---
**Author:** ![mnemosyne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c4cdca/32.png) [@mnemosyne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mnemosyne)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2006, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/born-for-the-job-name-edition/361821/56 "2006-06-26T13:35:17Z")
The leader of the Ontario Progressive Conservative Party is John Tory. ---
**Author:** ![Chanteuse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9de053/32.png) [@Chanteuse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chanteuse)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2006, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/born-for-the-job-name-edition/361821/57 "2006-06-26T14:23:52Z")
> [@WhyNot](#): > > I swear on a stack of Bibles, my first gynecologist was named Dr. Bush. In the women’s clinic where my OB/GYN worked, there was a Dr. Suzanne Bush. My parents knew of an gyno whose name was Seymour Kuntz–which he insisted was pronounced “koonts,” but nobody paid any attention. The joke was just too easy to ignore! ---
**Author:** ![Giles](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giles/32/60_2.png) [@Giles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giles)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2006, 11:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/born-for-the-job-name-edition/361821/58 "2006-06-29T11:55:00Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > “I’ve worked with two librarians named Giles, one male and one female, who got the inevitable Buffy references” I suspect neither was me (even though I’m a librarian), since I don’t get the Buffy references. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2006, 12:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/born-for-the-job-name-edition/361821/59 "2006-06-29T12:04:28Z")
> [@Chanteuse](#): > > My parents knew of an gyno whose name was Seymour Kuntz–which he insisted was pronounced “koonts,” but nobody paid any attention. \It’s “Fyoonkay”…\ ---
**Author:** ![Ins\_Outs\_What-have-yous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/8797f3/32.png) [@Ins\_Outs\_What-have-yous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ins_Outs_What-have-yous)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2006, 12:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/born-for-the-job-name-edition/361821/60 "2006-06-29T12:07:16Z")
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