# In which bad naming ensues **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 21, 2019, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-bad-naming-ensues/828157 "2019-01-21T16:55:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2019, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-bad-naming-ensues/828157/21 "2019-01-23T02:48:24Z")
Relax. Here, have a [cold drink](https://farm4.static.flickr.com/3068/3041534225_6e4e5be1f7_b.jpg). Ask for it by name! ---
**Author:** ![Ignatz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/3be4f8/32.png) [@Ignatz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ignatz)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2019, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-bad-naming-ensues/828157/22 "2019-02-03T01:40:11Z")
Then there’s Peniscola ( town in Spain)(perhaps the namers of Pensacola, Florida, didn’t dare.) ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2019, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-bad-naming-ensues/828157/23 "2019-02-03T21:02:52Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > [Swaaaaastika Acres is the place to be](https://www.denverpost.com/2019/01/18/swastika-acres-cherry-hills-village-subdivision/)… Welcome to [Swastika, Ontario](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swastika,_Ontario). ---
**Author:** ![Hari\_Seldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hari_seldon/32/5173_2.png) [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2019, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-bad-naming-ensues/828157/24 "2019-02-05T02:42:02Z")
> [@DPRK](#): > > Don’t agree anything rises to the level of unfortunate here. > > 1. Isn’t one Guy Pines a popular (daily?) television show host in Israel? Apparently he is doing OK. > > 2. The pronunciation of the Rabbi’s name does not match either the Latin or English pronunciation of “penis”. > > 3. Even if it did… so what? I have not heard about Jacques Tits changing his name, nor the village of Fucking changing its. Besides Tits, there is an Indian mathematician named Dickshit. There was an Indian diplomat named Dixit and I wonder if in Hindi, they are the same name. There was a 19th century German mathematician named Killing and there is something called a Killing form in the theory of Lie algebras (named after Norwegian Sophus Lie). Don’t discuss the Killing form in an airport. ---
**Author:** ![MagicEyes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@MagicEyes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MagicEyes)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2019, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-bad-naming-ensues/828157/25 "2019-02-05T03:29:09Z")
> [@KneadToKnow](#): > > My mother used to see a Dr. Hertz. Is his first name Dick? ---
**Author:** ![Daylate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9dc877/32.png) [@Daylate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daylate)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2019, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-bad-naming-ensues/828157/26 "2019-02-06T20:39:12Z")
Years ago (many years) I read a book by H. Allen Smith, who was a popular humor writer of those fare-off days. He had once worked for a small town newspaper in Southern Illinois, and told in his book of an article that had appeared in it. There was a local, relatively well-off family with the last name of Cockburn, and one of their sons had just married, and had left with his new bride on a honeymoon trip. The paper had a newish girl reporter who reported on this, and headlined her article “Cockburns off on wedding trip” Mr. Smith said that after the paper came out, the reporter would never discuss this with anyone. Ever. No thank you very much. He swore that this was a true story. ---
**Author:** ![Wheelz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wheelz/32/5718_2.png) [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2019, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-bad-naming-ensues/828157/27 "2019-02-06T23:44:01Z")
I swear the following is true: When I was in college, the campus ROTC was run by a gentleman by the name of Richard Head. He did indeed choose to go by the unfortunate nickname for Richard. Plus he was a military officer of a certain rank. Major Dick Head. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-bad-naming-ensues/828157.md?page=1)