# Funny Real Life Names **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 13, 2007, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-real-life-names/395773 "2007-03-13T18:20:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2007, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-real-life-names/395773/101 "2007-03-15T19:29:54Z")
[QUOTE=MrSquishy] Ladies and Gentlemen, I submit for your approval a [well-known](http://www.lieutenantgovernor.ab.ca/aoe/2006_hole.cfm) [local philanthropist](http://www.edmontonpolicefoundation.com/award.htm). Do I win? I don’t wish to make fun of the man himself; he’s a pillar of the community. But come on, you might think about going by Harold! [/QUOTE] Wow, that’s worse than the [2000 Libertarian Party Presidential Candidate](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Browne). ---
**Author:** ![InappropriateHumor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/eb8c5e/32.png) [@InappropriateHumor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/InappropriateHumor)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2007, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-real-life-names/395773/102 "2007-03-15T19:31:17Z")
[Rudy Whacker](http://www.heartland-health.com/body.cfm?id=2158) , HR Director of a hospital I worked for a number of years ago. It appears he’s still in the hospital biz. Goodness, how we anticipated his presentations… ---
**Author:** ![AntaresJB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c2a13f/32.png) [@AntaresJB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AntaresJB)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2007, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-real-life-names/395773/103 "2007-03-15T19:31:40Z")
In college I worked in the library and checked out books to a lovely Asian girl named Yin Yang. (I think she went by Claire, but Yin Yang was on her ID card). Also in college I had a friend named Peter Johnson, and knew a girl named Jenna Kuder (pronounced like ‘cooter’) – her boyfriend’s last name was Banger, although I forget his first name. Can you imagine the wedding announcement? Working in a call center for the past two years, I’ve run across some unusual names – I once had to fax an invoice to the attention of “Lord”. I just could not make myself address it “Dear Lord,” and went with “Dear Sir or Madam” instead. But my favorite one was a phone call from George Pupi. I couldn’t help but sit there snickering like a five-year-old with my mute button on while taking his order (yes, the last name is pronounced “poopy”. I had him spell it for me). ---
**Author:** ![Enginerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bcef8e/32.png) [@Enginerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enginerd)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2007, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-real-life-names/395773/104 "2007-03-15T19:32:34Z")
[QUOTE=MrSquishy] I don’t wish to make fun of the man himself; he’s a pillar of the community. But come on, you might think about going by Harold! [/QUOTE] It could be worse. If I knew anybody with that last name, I would refer to him only by his new nickname: Ace. ---
**Author:** ![Agonist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/439d5e/32.png) [@Agonist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Agonist)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2007, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-real-life-names/395773/105 "2007-03-15T20:58:22Z")
[QUOTE=MrSquishy] But come on, you might think about going by Harold! [/QUOTE] Sometimes it’s best not to fight it. I knew a guy named John Quitter once. He told me that the correct pronunciation was French: Kee-TARE, but he decided he’d sound like a self-conscious ass trying to get people to say it right all the time. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2007, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-real-life-names/395773/106 "2007-03-15T21:11:10Z")
Heh. Just came across a context-sensitive funny at work. (I’m in administration at a property management company.) Into the file: one letter from an owner complaining of a silverfish infestation in their unit, addressed “To Whom It May Concern…” …and the reply, explaining that insect problems within a single unit are the responsibility of the owner, concluding: > [@](#): > > The council suggests that there are retail products that are effective for eliminating silverfish, or if you prefer, you can contact a pest control company. > > Should you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact the undersigned. > > Yours truly, > > [John Pseudo] **Roach** > Strata Agent Heh heh. ---
**Author:** ![Rufus\_Xavier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@Rufus\_Xavier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rufus_Xavier)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2007, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-real-life-names/395773/107 "2007-03-15T23:38:07Z")
One of my first jobs as a Data Entry Specialist was inputting class rosters for a company (ELS Enterprises) that managed several English language classes for foreign students. In the year I was there I probably typed 10,000 names of people from all over the world. I always wrote down the funniest ones I came across and shared them with my friends. The all-time funniest name I remember was Bambang Hermawan Wibowo. ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2007, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-real-life-names/395773/108 "2007-03-16T02:28:19Z")
[QUOTE=Rufus Xavier] Bambang Hermawan Wibowo. [/QUOTE] Bambang appears to be [somewhat common in Indonesia.](http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susilo_Bambang_Yudhoyono) ---
**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2007, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-real-life-names/395773/109 "2007-03-17T13:16:24Z")
[QUOTE=fetus] I went to high school with a [Susan Davis](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Davis), who was best friends with Shirley Temple. [/QUOTE] :smack: How could I forget–my last girlfriend was Jessica Lange, too! ---
**Author:** ![Valgard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/7feea3/32.png) [@Valgard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Valgard)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2007, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-real-life-names/395773/110 "2007-03-17T14:14:32Z")
All these posts and nobody’s mentioned former Weather Channel anchor “Flip Spiceland”? I went to college with a guy whose last name was spelled “Lipschutz” and pronounced “Lip Shits”. Dated a girl briefly with the last name Paigen (pronounced Pagan, her intials were JAP which she was rather proud of - nice Jewish girl). A good friend in HS has the last name “Woodcock” and he’s a 4th. ---
**Author:** ![Sonia\_Montdore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/90ced4/32.png) [@Sonia\_Montdore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sonia_Montdore)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2007, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-real-life-names/395773/111 "2007-03-18T02:29:26Z")
Down the road from where I live is a church whose pastor is the Rev. John Teebaggy. ---
**Author:** ![fachverwirrt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/94ad74/32.png) [@fachverwirrt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fachverwirrt)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2007, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-real-life-names/395773/112 "2007-03-18T02:35:52Z")
There’s also well-known educator [Harry Wong](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Wong). ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2007, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-real-life-names/395773/113 "2007-03-18T03:22:47Z")
[QUOTE=Tikki] Did she live in La Jolla, CA or at least teach at a college in or around San Diego? I just read in a Mike Mailway column last week that Dr. Seuss, the author/illustrator, lived in La Jolla but there was also a Dr. Suess also living there, who was a professor and famous in her\* own right for something or other. They often recieved each other’s mail by mistake. I’ve tried to find the column online but all I get so far is about the recent death of the original Mike Mailway. I’ll have to go through TikkiDad’s stash of old Seattle P-I’s to find it. \*It might possibly be a him, actually, in which case, disregard the above. [/QUOTE] Nope, she’s in Florida and I’m pretty sure she’s till there since I did a search for her before posting to check the spelling. ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2007, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-real-life-names/395773/114 "2007-03-18T03:45:37Z")
I went to high school with a Fangboner. She had a great sense of humor, which I guess helps when you have a name like that. In college I had classmates with the names Dork, Mama, Gumz, and Weekley. ---
**Author:** ![Vision\_of\_Love](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Vision\_of\_Love](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vision_of_Love)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2007, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-real-life-names/395773/115 "2007-03-18T04:04:54Z")
My younger sister had a classmate back in elementary school whose name was Viet, and whose brother’s name was Nam. Guess where they were from. ---
**Author:** ![MisterThyristor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecccb3/32.png) [@MisterThyristor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MisterThyristor)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2007, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-real-life-names/395773/116 "2007-03-18T04:58:14Z")
I knew both a Harry Dick and a Harry Ball, but for some reason both of them insisted on being called Harold. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2007, 5:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-real-life-names/395773/117 "2007-03-18T05:54:05Z")
I went to school with two brothers named Seeman. Sadly, neither of them had a good first name to go with it. There was a man convicted of murder here a few years back named Rohan Ranger. ---
**Author:** ![Hometownboy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/5e9695/32.png) [@Hometownboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hometownboy)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2007, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-real-life-names/395773/118 "2007-03-18T06:27:13Z")
Perfect vocation name for a car dealer in the small town where I grew up: Otto Byers. Absolutely true. Sold a car to my grandfather in the 1920s, was still in business in the 1950s. ---
**Author:** ![zoogirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b9bd4f/32.png) [@zoogirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoogirl)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2007, 6:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-real-life-names/395773/119 "2007-03-18T06:29:06Z")
My hubby’s mom’s Gay cousin is Peter Dick. Hubby’s name is Randy Hunter. His mom, being Scottish, really ought to have known better… (“randy” is British Isle’s slang for horny) ---
**Author:** ![Trillionaire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/aeb1de/32.png) [@Trillionaire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trillionaire)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2007, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-real-life-names/395773/120 "2007-03-18T13:04:01Z")
[Willie Stroker.](http://www.randomlol.com/willie_stroker.htm) Of all the possible derivatives of William, why on earth would he choose to go by Willie? 😕 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-real-life-names/395773.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-real-life-names/395773.md?page=7)