I once did a show as “Holden MacRoyne” and finished with a cute quip like. “Thanks for coming out, folks. Tomorrow you’ll be a fading memory but I’ll still be Holden MacRoyne.”
I even used it as a screen name for a month or two, but changed it back to Spritle.
I also did a show as “Robert Fraplz”, and introduced myself as “Bob.”
I never met this man, but he was a client of the insurance company I worked for: a Korean doctor named (no joke)
Yoo-suck Kim
Imagine being addressed as “Yoo-suck” every day. I’m sure that NEVER gets old.
Is nobody going to bring up Dick Butkus (is that spelled right? I’m pretty sure it’s not really “Buttkiss”)?
When I was a bill collector, we had a “client” named Jack Hoff. I’m still not totally convinced that someone hadn’t used a fake name.
There’s a charitable organization mentioned often on our local PBS station called the Robert Wood Johnson foundation. I can never help thinking that he really should have been named Richard Wood Johnson.
Bich
Phuoc Yu
Hung Wei Lo
(All actual names of real people.)
While I was stationed at Ft. Hood, we had a C.O. whose last name was Fochop. Pronounced Fock-op. His rank was major. I just called him “sir”.
I made a name tag that I wore to work in a retail store a few times tha read Hugh G. Rection.
I saw this at work just today - Woody Swallow. (Frumious, we have a couple in the files at work named Jean Staines and John Staines - I haven’t figured out which name is worse.)
A couple of days ago, I read a newspaper article about brothers who were called Winner and Loser (he goes by Lou). (I was trying to find a cite for this, with no luck) Seems the father asked his eldest daughter at the time Loser was born what the baby should be called: “Well, we’ve got a Winner, so how about a Loser?” No, the article didn’t say how old the daughter was at the time, nor why the father decided to listen to that suggestion.
The family was located in Harlem, and while growing up, the kids never really noticed anything weird about their names. (they’d gotten used to them by the time they figured out that there was anything unusual about them)
The ironic thing is that Winner has pretty much led a life of crime, while Loser has grown up to be a well-respected cop. People are surprised at Loser’s name, quite naturally. Winner will sometimes call Loser up when he wants cash or something else, but the two brothers aren’t really all that close anymore.
F_X
There’s a racing driver named Dick Trickle.
I was at a dinner party a few months ago, and someone there swore, I mean SWORE, that she’d grown up down the street from a family whose last name was “Poopoowalker.” Yes, really. Poopoowalker. They had two daughters, and I can only hope their names are now “So-and-so P. Smith.”
(Rated G)
I know two people whose first and middle names are “Amanda Lynn” One already got the joke, the other I had to explain it to.
“Get it? ‘A-mandaLynn’ A mandolin is a small guitar!”
“Oh”
She didn’t see the humor. I guess I’m easily amused
From a SNL book review sketch:
“Forty Years In a Worehouse” by Lotta Cox
“Lights Out at the Boys’ School” by Holden and Sharon Dix
Peter Anthony Holder is a Montreal radio announcer (CJAD 800). I never thought about it before, but I guess he uses his middle name for a reason.
I went to school with Hung Wong. No kidding.
He was a great guy.
Two real ones I used to have to call on the phone…
Harry Dykes
Dick Schwanke (schwank-ee)
MC$E
Maybe he should drive the Viagra car.
My sister was in school with a kid who was really named Ben Dover. I’d have gone by Benjamin, or even Benji.
A friend was in school with guy named Jack Kinoff.
Rated G:
Another friend once had a classmate named Sergeant. This would have been bad enough even if his last name hadn’t been Schultz, but it was.
I know a guy called Bora Uçok. Who is gay. And who makes his living as a motivational speaker, of all things.
Ok, I heard this one from Crunchy Frog, saw it in his yearbook actually…
Velvet Beaver
Who could look at a baby and name it that?
I was at one time employed at a hospital associated with a major medical school. The name of the chief OB resident at the time was Richard Hertz.
I’m told there’s an Anita Hoare here in town, who is in Real Estate…
Think it’s an Urban Legend?
Think again. http://www.ottawahomes.net/
(Back out da door I go…)
Elly