I’ve already got my two classes at one college and will meet the other three at Campus #2 on Wed. I look through my roll sheets for the second campus, and what do I find? A student whose last name is…
Tampon.
Yes, that’s right.
So…I’m planning to say her first name loudly, then her last name quietly and with the wrong pronunciation, like tahm-pone.
Oh man, I hope I can get through it. It’s almost as bad as the time I had a student named Hung Wei Lo.
You teach at the college level, and you’re all worked up over “funny” names. Hmmm.
Oh, come on.
Just pray it’s not her married name.
I mentioned in another thread somewhere that I had a female student once whose name was B.J. Cummings. How’s that for a porn name?
I also had to learn to pronounce “Mchedlishvili.”
Pronounce it in French: “tem-POHN”
In French, the word means “rubber stamp,” incidentally.
And grow up, whydon’tcha?
Oh pish posh, come on all you sticks-in-the-mud, that’s worth a giggle, right?
Plus, vivalostwages could just be thinking of the other students’ reaction, and not wanting to embarass the girl. Although god knows she’s probably used to it by now.
Personally, I’d be worried about pulling a “Mr. Broccoli” and calling her “Miss Tampax.”
[size=1]For those not in the know, there once was an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation in which it filtered up to Capt. Picard that some people covertly referred to Reginald Barkley as “Mr. Broccoli.” The good captain was indignant and insisted that anyone who would do such a thing was childish. At next opportunity, he Freudian slipped and called Reg “Mr. Broccoli” to his face. Gaudere’s Law, indeed.*
I’m with White Lightning. It got a snicker out of me.
I refuse to grow up. I tried it once and didn’t like it…
Aw, crap.
My colleagues are much worse than I am about stuff like this. One says I should play it for laughs, and the other said that when he tried to “save” a student whose name was Phuoc Yu by saying “Yu Phuoc” instead, he was corrected by said student with a very loud “Phuoc Yu.” So much for trying to spare 'em, as
Melandry suggested.
My mother absolutely swears she once had a student named “Placenta”…
:eek: I believe it. I believe anything after all these years of roll sheets.
McHedlishvili? What’s that, Scots-Indian? Some sort of bastard offspring from Apu and Groundskeeper Willy?
“You may take our lives, but you’ll never take out freedom! Thank you, come again!”
That is hilarious…I’m with White Lightning.
I, also, refuse to grow up.
Laughter is the best medicine.
I once handed a student ID card to a guy named Dikshit Patel.
I think the colonials were having some fun with the locals in India.
A former co-worker once issued a library card to a little girl named Shi’Tonya. She didn’t even see it until she was typing the girl’s name into the computer in all caps.
Sounds like Scots-Georgian to me.
Georgia the former Soviet Republic, not the U.S. state.
I’ve seen the lastname “Glasscock” a few times. Must be rough.
Drop by the faculty lounge some time. We’d love to have you.
We could interrupt our discussions of South Park just long enough to have a funny-name contest.
If anyone out there thinks they can “reform” higher education, they’ve got a long, hard road ahead of 'em.
