I was reading a story about a woman who was raising 25 orphan children in her home. She kept her maiden name. Her husband’s name was “Silcock”.
On that theme, I went to high school with a kid a year ahead of me with the last name of “Dick”. Unfortunately for him, the PE coach called everyone by their last name.
There was another kid called Loppnow. I and my friend had fun with that one. Sounds like an incurable disease.
Then there are the “noun” last names. For example, Kevin Bacon. Can you say that dude’s name without thinking of breakfast for a half a second? Or Mia Hamm? Hamm makes me think of pork or cheap beer.
A friend of mine [Honest!] has two colleagues with the unfortunate last names of Glascock and Hollopeter. When I was in the service we had doctors with the following last names: Ogle[gynecologist] Goldwasser[urologist] Denton[pediatrician] and Marvel[couldn’t wait for him to be promoted to Captain]
I have a pet theory that all famous psychologists chose psychology because they were tormented as children for having funny names (Eysenck, McGurk, Gazzaniga, Skinner, Erik Erikson, Karen Horney, Florence Goodenough). My final validation for the theory came from reading up on Time’s 100 most important scientists which featured on Richard Leakey… DICK Leakey! :o
I once worked with a woman with the last name of “Porn” (No kidding!)
We also had a customer named “Melanie Guest” who would call in a lot. It was funny because when she logged into the network, she always logged in as “Guest”.
I currently work with a guy named “Richard Johnson”, but he likes to be called “Dick Johnson”. Really, he does.
I can’t believe nobody’s mentioned DICK TRICKLE yet.
Funniest last name I know? Zass. Some friends of mine went to a track meet, and a kid named Bill Zass won a few races. But it doesn’t matter what the first name is, the problem is the same.
I worked with a guy named Blue Hand. He actually had a common first name, but he said his mother always called him Blue so that’s what he considered his name to be.
I had a roommate with the last name of Fish. Not too bad except that my last name is Trout.
There was a little girl in my mom’s class with the last name of Drydyk. Her father, Jay, is the chair of philosophy at Carleton University, in Ottawa, Canada.
Then, of course, as I post in all these threads, there’s Anita Hoare, a real estate agent in Ottawa…
My sister worked for a lawyer in chicago who’s name was Richard Funk. But he like to be called Dick. So she had to answer the phone with
“Good Morning, Dick Funks office, how can I help you” … strained silence followed by giggling… What?
"Dick Funk’s office, may I help you.
Boy was she glad when she got another job
I also know of someone who has the last name Dikshit…
I guess he and Mr Funk should get an office together.
My brother’s colleague has the last name Kabadi, which in Indian language means rag-picker. The name really suits him, since he is a piece of trash anyway
And please, I’ve heard every joke there is.