Ima Hogg was the daughter of a former governor of Texas. There was no Ura Hogg.
I went to school with a Dick Cox.
Used to know a woman named Sunny Hooker.
Was in the Air Force with a guy named Precious Wilkerson – you didn’t want to make any comments about it, because he was a large guy!
These are friends of a friend:
Mr. and Mrs. Tree had three kids:
Douglas Fir
Jack Pine
Mary Christmas
I’ve known a:
Oma Ghosh (Indian, I believe.)
Thom Cruz (Filipino)
Ho and Dong are common names in Viet Nam. My nephew’s name is Phuc, but fortunately, it’s pronounced with a long ‘u’. Interestingly enough, it means “lucky” (more or less). Also, my friend’s name is Long, but he is very short. (He knows enough English that he told me that one himself.)
In school I knew a Cheryl Boner and Robin Crotchfelt, but my favorite was a student whose last name was Klc. Don’t remember her first name. Pronounced “Kelch”. Nobody ever got it right.
There’s a German footballer playing in the English Premiership called Kuntz. Obviously it has gown down a storm with the crowds who like to shout abuse at german footballers.
Poor bloke, I wonder if he would have transferred here if he had known?
Biggles - The batteries must have died in my english-to-english translator, can you clarify? Is this similar to the expression “went over like a lead balloon”?
The overwhelming majority of people have more than the average (mean) number of legs. – E. Grebenik
I went to grade school with Sue Seaman, and we had a family acquaintance named Dr. Manek. He was a psychiatrist.
Oops, sorry. If something goes down a storm it means it’s very popular. So the opposite of going down like a lead balloon - well, it is over here anyway!
In my boyfriend’s hometown, there’s a sign outside a chiropractor’s office with the name “Dr. Peniis” on it. Needless to say, we burst out in Beavis and Butthead-esque laughter every time we drive past it.
Ran across someone listed in a church bulletin as “Lucky Bonk.” I didn’t have the nerve to ask anyone about it.
My parents went to a Dr. Coffin for many years. He was a dentist, but still…
my friend, Dennis Weed married a girl named Maryjane. And, how about Armand Hammer?
The Teeming Millionth
I am not making this up.
At Saint Louis University back in the 1970s, there was a philosophy professor named Apathy and a math professor named Factor.
There is this really old guy that goes to the same church as me, his name is Woody Woodcock! Honest to God, I don’t know if the “Woody” part is just an old nickname, though. And I’ve never worked up the nerve to ask him, he’s really old, he wouldn’t get it.
No time for love Dr. Jones!
Guy I know swears he used to have a teacher named Miss Titswiggle
We had a Chilean foriegn exchange student when I was in high school. She told me one day that she had gone to school with a girl named “Copy Machine.” The girl’s parents, not knowing any English, had heard those words, and thought that they sounded very pretty.
Remember how Romona named her doll “Chevrolet?”
How about “Dung Hiep” as a name that desperately needs changing?
I had a friend “Glenn Gabriel Gabrielson.” And a roommate of “Bob Roberts.” Imagination is an ugly thing to lack.
A guy on my street had a truck with “Chester Wimpy’s Paint and Wallpaper” on the side. Another family in the neighborhood was the “Greenslits.” Atleast that’s what I hope it was, because their mailbox had the name hand painted on it, and it looked even worse than what I’m guessing. What a name to have in junior high. ICCCKKK…
A few years ago I put an article out of the L.A. Times on our refrigerator by a guy with the last name of “Buttburn.” At the time, I was sustituting, and I just can’t imagine walking into a class of 5th graders: “Good morning. Your teacher is absent today. I’m Mr. Buttburn.” The principal would probably tell you to lie and make up another name.
“Were you out on the lake today kissing your brain?”- The Man with Two Brains
My ex husband had an uncle, Richard Seaman who for reasons unimaginable to myself, chose to go by the name ‘Dick’.
Those Vietnamese names don’t really come through to English very well do they? BTW, Dung Hiep roughly translates as courageous knight, so that guy really took a step down when he moved to an English speaking country.
On the other hand, I knew a Chinese guy with the last name Wang. On moving to the U.S., he made the rather unfortunate choice of Peter as an English first name. After knowing him for about a year, a friend showed him in a dictionary that both his names were now penis euphemisms. I’m still not sure if that was a kindness or not.
That’s the way that it is on this bitch of an earth."
– Pozzo, Waiting For Godot
Just heard on PBS: Pain management doctor named Dr. Richard Pain.