# Celebrity or character names that sound like medical conditions? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 28, 2018, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-or-character-names-that-sound-like-medical-conditions/822121 "2018-09-28T17:08:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2018, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-or-character-names-that-sound-like-medical-conditions/822121/21 "2018-09-29T03:19:54Z")
Armie Hammer ---
**Author:** ![DavidwithanR](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3bc359/32.png) [@DavidwithanR](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidwithanR)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2018, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-or-character-names-that-sound-like-medical-conditions/822121/22 "2018-09-29T04:06:48Z")
Goneril (not sure if it sounds like a disease or like the drug for curing it, but not good anyway). ---
**Author:** ![DavidwithanR](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3bc359/32.png) [@DavidwithanR](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidwithanR)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2018, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-or-character-names-that-sound-like-medical-conditions/822121/23 "2018-09-29T04:15:03Z")
Bolingbroke: Suffering from the financial effect of excessive betting on games of boling. Or even from **going** boling too often. ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2018, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-or-character-names-that-sound-like-medical-conditions/822121/24 "2018-09-29T04:38:54Z")
Moriarty. Echoes of morbidity and arthritis. ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2018, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-or-character-names-that-sound-like-medical-conditions/822121/25 "2018-09-29T04:40:01Z")
Tom Jones disease. It sounds like it might be rare, but I’m told it’s not unusual… ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2018, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-or-character-names-that-sound-like-medical-conditions/822121/26 "2018-09-29T04:41:28Z")
Lady Gaga. Like regular gaga, but gentlemen don’t talk about it in mixed company. ---
**Author:** ![furryman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/furryman/32/99_2.png) [@furryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furryman)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2018, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-or-character-names-that-sound-like-medical-conditions/822121/27 "2018-09-29T17:59:04Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > Going the other way, have you heard of that new Country Music star Braxton Hicks? If you have Lou Gehrig’s disease you are compelled to never miss a day’s work for over ten years. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2018, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-or-character-names-that-sound-like-medical-conditions/822121/28 "2018-10-01T21:26:41Z")
> [@furryman](#): > > If you have Lou Gehrig’s disease you are compelled to never miss a day’s work for over ten years. When I first heard of Parkinson’s Disease, I asked, “isn’t that the disease that makes your work expand to fill the time you’ve got to do it in?” The last name of a Virginia congressional candidate is Cockburn. Sounds painful. Emeril doesn’t sound like a disease, but he sounds like something you’d take if your GI tract is upset. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2018, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-or-character-names-that-sound-like-medical-conditions/822121/29 "2018-10-01T21:37:59Z")
> [@RTFirefly](#): > > The last name of a Virginia congressional candidate is Cockburn. Sounds painful. It only _looks_ painful; she doesn’t say it the way you’re thinking. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2018, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-or-character-names-that-sound-like-medical-conditions/822121/30 "2018-10-01T23:29:56Z")
Melania Trump ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2018, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-or-character-names-that-sound-like-medical-conditions/822121/31 "2018-10-02T02:02:58Z")
> [@Horatio\_Hellpop](#): > > Tom Jones disease. It sounds like it might be rare, but I’m told it’s not unusual… Not as bad as having a case of Engelbert Humperdinck. ---
**Author:** ![Riemann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/riemann/32/3133_2.png) [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2018, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-or-character-names-that-sound-like-medical-conditions/822121/32 "2018-10-02T02:34:35Z")
Have we got this far without mentioning Benadryl Crumplesnatch? ---
**Author:** ![jnglmassiv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f07891/32.png) [@jnglmassiv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jnglmassiv)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2018, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-or-character-names-that-sound-like-medical-conditions/822121/33 "2018-10-02T15:42:43Z")
NFL quarterback Blake Bortles ---
**Author:** ![PatrickLondon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/patricklondon/32/4422_2.png) [@PatrickLondon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PatrickLondon)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2018, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-or-character-names-that-sound-like-medical-conditions/822121/34 "2018-10-02T17:51:17Z")
Try these politicians (these are genuine names): > **[Poor Mr Anus, the council candidate given a bum deal by Facebook](https://www.theguardian.com/technology/shortcuts/2018/sep/28/poor-mr-anus-the-council-candidate-given-a-bum-deal-by-facebook)** > > A local election candidate in Belgium has been forced to change his name by the social network on the grounds that it is ‘offensive and inappropriate’. The cheek of it! ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2018, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-or-character-names-that-sound-like-medical-conditions/822121/35 "2018-10-02T18:13:29Z")
“Doctor, is it supposed to be this color?” “No, you have what we call a Scarlett Johansson.” ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2018, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-or-character-names-that-sound-like-medical-conditions/822121/36 "2018-10-02T19:45:17Z")
> [@Riemann](#): > > Have we got this far without mentioning Benadryl Crumplesnatch? I think it’s pronounced “Bendydick Cummerbund.” > [@jnglmassiv](#): > > NFL quarterback Blake Bortles Joe Flacco? Ralph Fiennes (pronounced Rayf Fines, because why not England?) always sounded like a throat disease. ---
**Author:** ![caligulathegod](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/caligulathegod/32/9685_2.png) [@caligulathegod](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/caligulathegod)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2018, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-or-character-names-that-sound-like-medical-conditions/822121/37 "2018-10-03T04:00:37Z")
Boz Scaggs sounds like a horrendous skin disease. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-or-character-names-that-sound-like-medical-conditions/822121.md?page=1)