I joked that the second gentleman, Doug Emhoff’s father’s name is Jack (its not). But there are people with that name out there.
There is a professional poker player (I’ve seen him on TV) named Huckleberry Seed.
I had a HS classmate named Coleman Paul. Although the name is not inherently funny, people always wanted to reverse them.
There was an Indian mathematician named Dickshit, although googling suggests he changed it to Dixit.
It is indeed funny and we made fun of fellow classmates with that name when young.
May I know the mathematician’s first name ? Dixit or Dikshit is a common name in the western state of Maharashtra but never have I ever seen it spelled Dickshit like you say.
When you say “googling …” can you please tell what you googled ?
One of our contractors has the first name Parikshit. I asked how to pronounce it before saying it the first time.
@Acsenray can explain this better
Sanskrit has declensions for nouns, just like latin. The “suffix” shit is like -ed in English.
Diksha = Initiation, + shit = Dikshit (Initiated or Consecrated)
Pariksha = Test, + shit = Parikhit (Tested or Proven)
Shiksha = Education + shit = Shikshit (Educated)
I had a classmate named Duc Wing and a girlfriend named Anita Hickey.
I don’t recall, but when I googled “mathematician Dickshit” just now, I actually found someone named H.P. Dikshit who was identified as president of an Indian mathematical society. On a different occasion, I did find a Dixit. Here is the link I found: Prof. H.P. Dikshit – ISIAM.
I worked at an HMO while I was in college. There were patients named Milweena Slappy and Yoko Ono (not that one, though.)