# Funny names (Rated R, maybe even X) **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 2, 2002, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-names-rated-r-maybe-even-x/121968 "2002-08-02T03:19:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2002, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-names-rated-r-maybe-even-x/121968/1 "2002-08-02T03:19:50Z")
Ben Dover Harry Paratestes Howie Feltersnatch Haywood Jablomie Willie Getter Harry Timbercrank Bumpy Johnson Pat McCrotch Phil McCracken I know about 10 others but I can’t think of any right now. Someone make me laugh. ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2002, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-names-rated-r-maybe-even-x/121968/2 "2002-08-02T03:23:33Z")
Oh, how could I forget the ever popular **Mike Hunt**. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2002, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-names-rated-r-maybe-even-x/121968/3 "2002-08-02T03:25:23Z")
The guy who leased me my car is named Dick Waack. No joke, but funny nonetheless! Happy ---
**Author:** ![Mersavets](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/aca169/32.png) [@Mersavets](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mersavets)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2002, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-names-rated-r-maybe-even-x/121968/4 "2002-08-02T04:13:07Z")
The New South Wales racing minister’s full name is Richard Jack Face. Hopwever, he chooses to go by the name of Dick Face for the recognition value if nothing else. ---
**Author:** ![Flamsterette\_X](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/41988e/32.png) [@Flamsterette\_X](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flamsterette_X)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2002, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-names-rated-r-maybe-even-x/121968/5 "2002-08-02T04:23:45Z")
Check out this site; it has lots of them. [Funny Names](http://www.funnynames.com/) F\_X ---
**Author:** ![Speaker\_for\_the\_Dead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c77e96/32.png) [@Speaker\_for\_the\_Dead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Speaker_for_the_Dead)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2002, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-names-rated-r-maybe-even-x/121968/6 "2002-08-02T04:56:58Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Happy Lendervedder \* > \*\*The guy who leased me my car is named Dick Waack. > > No joke, but funny nonetheless! > > Happy \*\* It has a double meaning! Or triple, I guess. The obvious one of “dick-whack”, but also the more obscure “dee quack” (‘the quack’ said in an accent. ---
**Author:** ![TVGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/82dd89/32.png) [@TVGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TVGuy)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2002, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-names-rated-r-maybe-even-x/121968/7 "2002-08-02T05:26:20Z")
Two honest to goodness human beings (and really nice guys) I’ve worked with in the past: Sam Surprise (just like it sounds…!) Patrick Peters - he always went by ‘Pat’ - what were his parents thinking? ---
**Author:** ![Mysphyt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/dbc845/32.png) [@Mysphyt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mysphyt)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2002, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-names-rated-r-maybe-even-x/121968/8 "2002-08-02T05:32:41Z")
I went to high school with an honest-to-goodness Peter Holder. ---
**Author:** ![Celaeno](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f475e1/32.png) [@Celaeno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Celaeno)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2002, 5:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-names-rated-r-maybe-even-x/121968/9 "2002-08-02T05:53:56Z")
Mrs. Willie Dickerson. I think she’s going to be my high school’s new principal this year, if I remember right. ---
**Author:** ![whiterabbit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/cab0a1/32.png) [@whiterabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whiterabbit)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2002, 10:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-names-rated-r-maybe-even-x/121968/10 "2002-08-02T10:31:08Z")
There’s a local corporate realtor whose last name is Penix. Can you imagine being in seventh grade with that last name? Aaaaaaaugh! ---
**Author:** ![Dharma\_Bumpkin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecd19e/32.png) [@Dharma\_Bumpkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dharma_Bumpkin)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2002, 10:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-names-rated-r-maybe-even-x/121968/11 "2002-08-02T10:58:24Z")
I went to school with a girl called **Gay Lovegrove** … this was (just) in the time before gay meant gay, at least in rural NZ. I seriously hope she got married. ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2002, 11:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-names-rated-r-maybe-even-x/121968/12 "2002-08-02T11:35:41Z")
When I would occasionally teach some of my adult students one of the somewhat vulgar English expressions for going to the toilet, I’d usually follow it up with how many Americans would snicker at the name of Prime Minister Takeshita. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Elvis\_Rojo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/898d66/32.png) [@El\_Elvis\_Rojo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Elvis_Rojo)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2002, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-names-rated-r-maybe-even-x/121968/13 "2002-08-02T12:48:50Z")
Happy Phuq is my favorite ---
**Author:** ![booklover](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/85f322/32.png) [@booklover](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/booklover)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2002, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-names-rated-r-maybe-even-x/121968/14 "2002-08-02T12:52:43Z")
Went to school with a kid named: Phuc Ngo Best last name: Grothendick (long o) I also knew a Mike Hunt in high school–don’t ask me why he didn’t go by Michael! ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2002, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-names-rated-r-maybe-even-x/121968/15 "2002-08-02T13:20:24Z")
When you have a legitimate addition to a list like this, it is critical to add to overall SDMB knowledge: I had a roommate in college names Lipson Whang. 😃 People always asked me “Does he know? Have you told him?” He was new to the country and his language skills weren’t what they could be. Nice guy - I didn’t tell him - I really couldn’t. ---
**Author:** ![Frumious\_Bandersnatch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a587f6/32.png) [@Frumious\_Bandersnatch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frumious_Bandersnatch)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2002, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-names-rated-r-maybe-even-x/121968/16 "2002-08-02T13:48:09Z")
I used to have a good friend with the last name of Lis. Shortly after his birth, someone had to explain to his mother why she should not name him Richard. FB ---
**Author:** ![peasea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/bc79bd/32.png) [@peasea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peasea)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2002, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-names-rated-r-maybe-even-x/121968/17 "2002-08-02T14:19:08Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by booklover \* > \*\*Went to school with a kid named: Phuc Ngo > \*\* I went to school with a Phuc. He went by Vince. Had a college class with Crystal Sno White. There was a friend of a friend named Dick Washer. My mom once had a patient named Osborne Barefoot (…weren’t we all?). ---
**Author:** ![stofsky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dfb087/32.png) [@stofsky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stofsky)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2002, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-names-rated-r-maybe-even-x/121968/18 "2002-08-02T15:10:42Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Mersavets \* > \*\*The New South Wales racing minister’s full name is Richard Jack Face. Hopwever, he chooses to go by the name of Dick Face for the recognition value if nothing else. \*\* And if he lived in the South in the US, everybody would probably call him Dick-Jack. ---
**Author:** ![Stana\_Claus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stana_claus/32/13874_2.png) [@Stana\_Claus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stana_Claus)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2002, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-names-rated-r-maybe-even-x/121968/19 "2002-08-02T16:06:58Z")
I once sold a very expensive piece of jewelry to a Mr. Dick Sweat. I also worked for many years with a Mr. Peter Staines. But my personal all-time favorite unfortunate name is the daughter of former Governor of Texas Jim Hogg, Ima. Fortunately, she didn’t let her name drag her down and Ima Hogg became one of the great philanthropists of Houston, TX. Oddly enough, she never married. ---
**Author:** ![jk1245](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/49beb7/32.png) [@jk1245](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jk1245)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2002, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-names-rated-r-maybe-even-x/121968/20 "2002-08-02T16:10:02Z")
My wife works for a large insurance company, and has seen lots of “what were the parents thinking?” names such as: Ima Hogg Dick Head Dick Whacker and, my favorite woman’s name Fonda Cox In college, I knew an Angela Stankebusch. She actually thought it was funny, which I suppose was more of a self-defense mechanism than anything. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-names-rated-r-maybe-even-x/121968.md?page=2)