# Gimme some humorous and fancy fake names **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 8, 2004, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gimme-some-humorous-and-fancy-fake-names/278692 "2004-12-08T04:20:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2004, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gimme-some-humorous-and-fancy-fake-names/278692/41 "2004-12-08T21:27:07Z")
> [@Standup Karmic](#): > > Actually, it’s Not Pmy Name spelled backwards. I guess I need to take a P. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2004, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gimme-some-humorous-and-fancy-fake-names/278692/42 "2004-12-08T21:42:33Z")
Rufus T. Firefly Otis P. Driftwood Hugo Z. Hackenbush The rules for creating a funny name: 1. The first name should be some obsolete name that’s not often used: Eustace, Melvin, Seymour, Hortense, etc. Also, the name of a city is good. 2. Middle initial is required. Q, L, or J are especially good. 3. The last name is a noun, usually describing a common object or animal. It can also be a compound of two nouns, or a noun from another language. Misspelling is allowed. Thus: Eustace Q. Stapler Hildegard P. Coatmitten Elmira L. Hassenpfeffer Horace H. Herring Johnstown J. Fludde Quentin J. Warthog ---
**Author:** ![fluiddruid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c2a13f/32.png) [@fluiddruid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fluiddruid)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2004, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gimme-some-humorous-and-fancy-fake-names/278692/43 "2004-12-08T21:46:44Z")
Nigel J. Shallingforth, Esq. ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_Wright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@Steve\_Wright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_Wright)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2004, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gimme-some-humorous-and-fancy-fake-names/278692/44 "2004-12-08T21:57:13Z")
Whenever I’m doing database testing, I make sure I use obviously fake names that I can take out harmlessly afterwards … Jeremiah Belchtrouser and Arbuthnot Clenchwomble are a couple of favourites of mine. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2004, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gimme-some-humorous-and-fancy-fake-names/278692/45 "2004-12-08T22:00:35Z")
Armitage Shanks\*, who lives in the small Welsh coastal village of Scantilly Clad. \*Toilet manufacturer in the UK. ---
**Author:** ![Eliphalet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eliphalet/32/9563_2.png) [@Eliphalet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eliphalet)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2004, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gimme-some-humorous-and-fancy-fake-names/278692/46 "2004-12-08T22:06:40Z")
> [@Scribble](#): > > Oh, wait–QUINCY!!! No-one’s yet used the name “Quincy.” I can’t believe we’ve gotten so far without it. > > Quincy Thruppinsmurch. Not Quincy! Quentin! You must be pretentious! Quentin Alloicious Snodquist IV Eliphalet Brackett (as if that isn’t pretentious enough) ---
**Author:** ![SpiceTea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8797f3/32.png) [@SpiceTea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpiceTea)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2004, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gimme-some-humorous-and-fancy-fake-names/278692/47 "2004-12-08T22:12:08Z")
Myrtle O. Beachcombe ---
**Author:** ![Giraffe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giraffe/32/129_2.png) [@Giraffe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giraffe)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2004, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gimme-some-humorous-and-fancy-fake-names/278692/48 "2004-12-08T22:13:45Z")
David ---
**Author:** ![Alas\_Earwax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f04885/32.png) [@Alas\_Earwax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alas_Earwax)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2004, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gimme-some-humorous-and-fancy-fake-names/278692/49 "2004-12-08T22:44:08Z")
Rufus Sphincterclencher Morris P. Mossycrotch Penelope Highbeams Violet Sugarpants Jemima J. Jiggleblouse ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2004, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gimme-some-humorous-and-fancy-fake-names/278692/50 "2004-12-08T22:46:36Z")
> [@Eliphalet](#): > > Not Quincy! Quentin! You must be pretentious! I have a friend whose first name is Quentin. He’s as English as you like, and so are his parents. His middle name is Edouarde. And his sister is Giselle Juanita. ---
**Author:** ![Alas\_Earwax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f04885/32.png) [@Alas\_Earwax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alas_Earwax)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2004, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gimme-some-humorous-and-fancy-fake-names/278692/51 "2004-12-08T22:55:54Z")
Phineas Fuzzlethwait Jackson T. Strangefinger Linus Xavier Fisticuffs Ulysseus M. Fussbudget ---
**Author:** ![Giraffe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giraffe/32/129_2.png) [@Giraffe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giraffe)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2004, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gimme-some-humorous-and-fancy-fake-names/278692/52 "2004-12-08T23:04:08Z")
Bill ---
**Author:** ![Cazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cazzle/32/75_2.png) [@Cazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cazzle)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2004, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gimme-some-humorous-and-fancy-fake-names/278692/53 "2004-12-08T23:13:39Z")
Leonard Arthur Watershed Ermentrude Pennywrench Nigel Carstairs-Haddington Jocelyn Handofate Sir Nicholas Dashington Caroline Guilding-Stoke Lionel Teddingsworth Lady Louise Tureen-Marshall Herbert Grundlewood III Florence “Flossie” D. Eversley-Smith ---
**Author:** ![nocturnal\_tick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/3d9bf3/32.png) [@nocturnal\_tick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nocturnal_tick)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2004, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gimme-some-humorous-and-fancy-fake-names/278692/54 "2004-12-09T00:28:59Z")
ahem… Presenting… **The seventy-third Duke of Marmalade, his royal excellency Lieutenant General Sir Clarence P.W. Wennthrop-Merryweather III, Royal Cavalry.** 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Giraffe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giraffe/32/129_2.png) [@Giraffe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giraffe)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2004, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gimme-some-humorous-and-fancy-fake-names/278692/55 "2004-12-09T00:41:56Z")
Wait, I’ve got a good one! Jim. ---
**Author:** ![PigBoy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/97f17d/32.png) [@PigBoy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PigBoy)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2004, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gimme-some-humorous-and-fancy-fake-names/278692/56 "2004-12-09T00:42:55Z")
When starting this thread, I had forgotten the name with which I used to sign some e-mails: Lord Piggiston (Greedulance MMCMLXXVIII, of the House of Boyle) ---
**Author:** ![Fritz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c57346/32.png) [@Fritz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fritz)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2004, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gimme-some-humorous-and-fancy-fake-names/278692/57 "2004-12-09T00:52:11Z")
Johann Gambolputty de von Ausfern- schplenden- schlitter- crasscrenbon- fried- digger- dingle- dangle- dongle- dungle- burstein- von- knacker- thrasher- apple- banger- horowitz- ticolensic- grander- knotty- spelltinkle- grandlich- grumblemeyer- spelterwasser- kurstlich- himbleeisen- bahnwagen- gutenabend- bitte- ein- nürnburger- bratwustle- gerspurten- mitz- weimache- luber- hundsfut- gumberaber- shönedanker- kalbsfleisch- mittler- aucher von Hautkopft of Ulm? To do justice to this man, thought by many to be the greatest name in German Baroque music, we present a profile of Johann Gambolputty de von Ausfern- schplenden- schlitter- crasscrenbon- fried- digger- dingle- dangle- dongle- dungle- burstein- von- knacker- thrasher- apple- banger- horowitz- ticolensic- grander- knotty- spelltinkle- grandlich- grumblemeyer- spelterwasser- kurstlich- himbleeisen- bahnwagen- gutenabend- bitte- ein- nürnburger- bratwustle- gerspurten- mitz- weimache- luber- hundsfut- gumberaber- shönedanker- kalbsfleisch- mittler- aucher von Hautkopft of Ulm. ---
**Author:** ![Fritz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c57346/32.png) [@Fritz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fritz)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2004, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gimme-some-humorous-and-fancy-fake-names/278692/58 "2004-12-09T00:55:42Z")
:smack: I _will_ preview every post from now on… Should be: Johann Gambolputty de von Ausfern- schplenden- schlitter- crasscrenbon- fried- digger- dingle- dangle- dongle- dungle- burstein- von- knacker- thrasher- apple- banger- horowitz- ticolensic- grander- knotty- spelltinkle- grandlich- grumblemeyer- spelterwasser- kurstlich- himbleeisen- bahnwagen- gutenabend- bitte- ein- nürnburger- bratwustle- gerspurten- mitz- weimache- luber- hundsfut- gumberaber- shönedanker- kalbsfleisch- mittler- aucher von Hautkopft of Ulm ---
**Author:** ![Tenar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/35a633/32.png) [@Tenar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tenar)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2004, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gimme-some-humorous-and-fancy-fake-names/278692/59 "2004-12-09T01:01:58Z")
Cloaca Froggybottom? ---
**Author:** ![lovewilliam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b782af/32.png) [@lovewilliam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lovewilliam)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2004, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gimme-some-humorous-and-fancy-fake-names/278692/60 "2004-12-09T01:58:56Z")
Summer Genevieve Saint-Claire It’s my cousins name (she introduced me to these boards), sadly mine is less impressive. Also: Feymont L’Heure III Portia Lalondra-Escondido Amassington Kevgrove Willingtonfer IV [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gimme-some-humorous-and-fancy-fake-names/278692.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gimme-some-humorous-and-fancy-fake-names/278692.md?page=4)