My husband works for Wellpoint. The CEO’s name is Larry Glasscock. Sure, it would be funnier if he were Harry Glasscock, but Glasscock by itself is enough to make me giggle any day.
When I was in high school, we went to Florida for a cross country team race. I was digging through the phone book and we found a name that was hilarous (to a bunch of teenage guys). It was Phillip Ennis.
We thought it would be pronounced Phillip Enis (Phil-lip-penis) so it was funny to us. Yeah, we were dorks…
In grade school there was a kid named Mark Smellie. Apparently, there is a Mark Smellie (a.k.a. “Smeeks”) in the band Exploited. It doesn’t seem to be too uncommon a name, either.
Until recently there was a radio host on Ontario radio station CJRT (a.k.a. Jazz FM) named Glen Woodcock. (My dad’s a jazz musician so I’m exposed to all sort of Jazz stuff)
Wow…uhhmm…ok. I went to school with the following people:
Douglas and Cedar Fir (brothers)
Joseph Self
For cite/proof, you will have to wait til I get home and can scan my yearbook.
A guy I knew in school always said when he had a kid, he was going to name him Justin. His last name is Case. I don’t know if he ever had a son or not.
I think the name Michael Hunt is actually fairly common. When I managed a pizza delivery joint, we had a driver with that name. It always made me giggle when a customer would call to complain about him and I would have to tell them that his name was Mike. Last name Hunt. I always had to explain that I was serious and they were welcome to call our corporate office to verify it. I think the only reason he never got fired (he was a HORRIBLE employee and stinky to boot) was for the giggle factor of his name.
I had a math professor once whose last name was Weiner. Whenever anyone asked a question, they would say “Professor Wine-er,” out of respect. Always, he would then adamantly insist “It’s pronounced WEENER.” Penis ensued.
When I was growing up in Charleston, WV, there was a man by the name of Hogjaw Twaddle listed in the phone directory.
A man by the name of Peter Beter (who was apparently a well-known conspiracy theorist) ran for governor of West Virginia when I was a kid. Full name was Peter David Beter, so his name was often given in the newspapers as Peter D. Beter.