In the interest of accuracy, it was probably “Payne” or somesuch, rather than “Pain”. I only heard it.
Someone who wrote a master’s thesis at my alma mater (SFA): Ching Chang Chung
Mastery is not perfection but a journey, and the true master must be willing to try and fail and try again
Hi, my real name is Rasha (Arabic for “young gazelle”) and I’m a Real World/Road Rules addict.
Yes, I’m 30 years old and I absolutely love those shows. Anyway, the new cast of Road Rules has a member named Yes. He was named after the band. He has a brother named Uriah (as in Heep).
On a more personal note, my parents had wild hairs up their butts when deciding on my name. Their names are Cheryl and Bob. My brother’s name is Steve. Your basic WASP family. So, when my husband and I were first married, we were lazy about getting pictures taken to send to extended family members. His grandmother was convinced that I was an African-American woman and that that was the reason we hadn’t sent a picture!
Most common question I ask: “What?”
Most common question I get: “Are you really hearing impaired?”
I heard this on either The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, or The Late Show with David Letterman. Sometimes audience members are asked questions for prizes and one of the questions was: Who is Dick Buttons? A) A US Olympic Skating Coach or B) What John Wayne Bobbitt’s doctors used to reattach his penis? FTR I think he was the coach. 
(There seemed to be many postings with the name “Dick” so I couldn’t resist.)
I dated a Wendy Loose. (she wasn’t)
I worked with Dick Waddington and Lulu Flamer
“It all started with marbles in school…”
I worked for a firm named after the owners. Everytime I answered the phone I had to say this.
“Good morning. This is Gross may I help you.”
I dreaded answering the phone. Some people didn’t make a snide remark at that point, most did.
An English teacher at my high school was named Mrs. Knipple, and I used to know a guy named Harry Hyman.
Former Assistant Principal in HS was named Mr. Dick and the rumor started his first name was Harry. Turns out it was Richard… Yes, Dick Dick!
I also recall a Junior HS classmate named Brent Blaha which was good for a laugh (snort)!
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I once worked for a guy named
Boofer Wilkey
Near here is a business called
Adcock Prosthetics
I had a teacher in junior high school named
Miss Fortune
Chattanooga was once the home of
Fannie O’Rear
That last one, bless her heart, was in the phone book and called up by kids for years. She didn’t seem to see what was so funny about her name.
There was a baseball player in the 80s named Randy Ready. And I always liked to see Tim Teufel batting against Jim Gott.
My mother’s OB/GYN is named Bonnie Beavers. You’d think she’d choose any other specialty.
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NASCAR racer Dick Trickle.
I have a friend named Kim Fuchs too. Small world. Also someone mentioned my last name here, I’ve never met anyone with my last name before. Its not really strange, but my dad’s mother remarried and took a new name, he is an only male child, and I am an only child, so you can see that I’m the last hope for my name.
Sr year in high school I dated: Dave(y) Crockett
My old boss: Gary Senese (pronounced like the actor)
Also worked with David Brinkley
Next door neighbors name: Romance Watson (he’s a large MAN}
Went to school with: Ken Garew and Bridgette Pardoe
forgot one, a sales rep at my company: Page Page (page is her married name)
Also work with a guy whose last name is Putfark, very easy to mispronounce…
A patron at my library has the name Mary Joseph.
I found a name in a local phone book once: Elspeth M. Lightbody.
Don’t forget Major Major Major Major from catch 22. One I always got a kick out of is the bishop of the Virgin Islands, one Cardnal Sin. Please tell me this one isn’t an Urban Legend.
>>Being Chaotic Evil means never having to say your sorry…unless the other guy is bigger than you.<<
—The dragon observes
There’s an attorney’s office nearby me called Wynn and Wynn. I guess they lucked out on that one.
Jeremy…
I can think of no more stirring symbol of man’s humanity to man than a fire engine - Kurt Vonnegut
Dentist in town here: Dr. Toothacher
Narile, there really was a Cardinal Sin, but IIRC, his see was the Philippines.
I’ve run into a few of these postings before. Allegedly Gov. Hogg of Texas named his daughter Ima because he realized she would be picked on, whatever her name, so he made it so bad that it would head them off at the pass, so to speak. (While she’s not an urban legend, that reason may be.)
My own favorite story on this is a college professor, a very competent developmental psychologist named Kermit Kuntz. If that isn’t enough, he was junior author of an adolescent psych. textbook with Gordon Allcock. Needless to say, that is one textbook not referred to by the authors’ names!