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Ladies and Gentlemen, I submit for your approval a well-known local philanthropist.
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!
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Wow, that’s worse than the 2000 Libertarian Party Presidential Candidate.
Rudy Whacker , 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…
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).
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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!
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It could be worse. If I knew anybody with that last name, I would refer to him only by his new nickname: Ace.
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But come on, you might think about going by Harold!
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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.
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:
Heh heh.
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.
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Bambang Hermawan Wibowo.
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Bambang appears to be somewhat common in Indonesia.
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I went to high school with a Susan Davis, who was best friends with Shirley Temple.
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:smack: How could I forget–my last girlfriend was Jessica Lange, too!
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.
Down the road from where I live is a church whose pastor is the Rev. John Teebaggy.
There’s also well-known educator Harry Wong.
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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.
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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.
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.
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.
I knew both a Harry Dick and a Harry Ball, but for some reason both of them insisted on being called Harold. 
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.
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.
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)
Of all the possible derivatives of William, why on earth would he choose to go by Willie? 