# Meet the Fockers?! What were they thinking? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 9, 2004, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meet-the-fockers-what-were-they-thinking/279012 "2004-12-09T22:25:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![furt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/439d5e/32.png) [@furt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furt)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2004, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meet-the-fockers-what-were-they-thinking/279012/21 "2004-12-10T04:30:52Z")
> [@Ellis Dee](#): > > Story time. There’s a couple families in my areas with the last name Kuntz. [The Immortal Rusty Kuntz.](http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review/sports/pirateslive/qanda/s_191064.html) ---
**Author:** ![furt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/439d5e/32.png) [@furt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furt)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2004, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meet-the-fockers-what-were-they-thinking/279012/22 "2004-12-10T04:31:55Z")
Dated a girl with the last name Loose. Sadly, she wasn’t. ---
**Author:** ![Alice\_The\_Goon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Alice\_The\_Goon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alice_The_Goon)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2004, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meet-the-fockers-what-were-they-thinking/279012/23 "2004-12-10T04:32:47Z")
/hijack/I once knew a Harry Sack. And a Peter Sack./endhijack/ ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2004, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meet-the-fockers-what-were-they-thinking/279012/24 "2004-12-10T05:31:56Z")
Anybody remember several years ago when David Letterman discovered Dick Assman? ---
**Author:** ![parkov](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/71e660/32.png) [@parkov](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/parkov)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2004, 8:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meet-the-fockers-what-were-they-thinking/279012/25 "2004-12-10T08:59:59Z")
Growing up, two houses to the left were the Dicks. Two houses to the right were the Weiners. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2004, 9:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meet-the-fockers-what-were-they-thinking/279012/26 "2004-12-10T09:14:10Z")
> [@Rufus Xavier](#): > > I once had a doctor named Schmuckler. He claimed it was pronounced ‘Shmookler’. Yeah, right. Don’t touch my schmuck, Schmuckler. It’s pronounced “FRON-kon-STEEN.” ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2004, 9:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meet-the-fockers-what-were-they-thinking/279012/27 "2004-12-10T09:15:12Z")
“Ka-ching.” ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2004, 9:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meet-the-fockers-what-were-they-thinking/279012/28 "2004-12-10T09:52:12Z")
> [@parkov](#): > > Growing up, two houses to the left were the Dicks. Two houses to the right were the Weiners. I knew a Jessica Cox that had a long-term relationship with Dan Weiner. Re: Meet the Fokkers: It will make money. Just about everyone I know loved that piece of shit Meet the Parents. Even people with otherwise impeccable movie taste. I’m sure my girlfriend will be dragging me to the theatre to see the sequel :(. ---
**Author:** ![Snickers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Snickers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snickers)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2004, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meet-the-fockers-what-were-they-thinking/279012/29 "2004-12-10T14:18:05Z")
Yep, once saw a campaign poster for the aforementioned Kuntz. Thought “Poor guy,” then wondered whether he was successful trying to get people to prounounce it “Koontz.” ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2004, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meet-the-fockers-what-were-they-thinking/279012/30 "2004-12-10T14:48:59Z")
_Meet the Parents_ was a damn fine movie. All you sunzabinches who thought it wasn’t simply have no taste. C’mon – Ben Stiller spiking the volley ball into the bride’s nose? It really doesn’t get any better than that. And “I have nipples – can you milk me?” Pure comedy gold! Anyway, back on topic. I once had a roommate named Peter Dick. Down the hall lived Peter Jock. ---
**Author:** ![kidchameleon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/898d66/32.png) [@kidchameleon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kidchameleon)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2004, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meet-the-fockers-what-were-they-thinking/279012/31 "2004-12-10T15:08:17Z")
I keep seeing this movie ending up like Deniro’s last sequil, Analyze That. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![RevCo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9fc348/32.png) [@RevCo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RevCo)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2004, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meet-the-fockers-what-were-they-thinking/279012/32 "2004-12-10T15:24:07Z")
> [@Snickers](#): > > Yep, once saw a campaign poster for the aforementioned Kuntz. Thought “Poor guy,” then wondered whether he was successful trying to get people to prounounce it “Koontz.” I still remember one of the funniest SNL’s I’ve seen in a decade - it was with Nicholas Cage hosting - he did a tiny Elvis skit that was really funny was the guy who was obsessing to the point of hysterics the name of his not yet born son and how people will pick on him, and in the end the guy gets a package and it’s for “Mr. Asswipe?” and NC pronounces it, “That’s Azz-we-pay!” ---
**Author:** ![CapnPitt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/edb3f5/32.png) [@CapnPitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CapnPitt)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2004, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meet-the-fockers-what-were-they-thinking/279012/33 "2004-12-10T15:27:41Z")
[hijack] At the University of Pittsburgh, yup, Professor Dick Cox. Good guy too. [http://www.sis.pitt.edu/~dlis/people/fulltime\_faculty\_bios.html#Cox](http://www.sis.pitt.edu/%7Edlis/people/fulltime_faculty_bios.html#Cox) [/hijack] ---
**Author:** ![AwSnappity](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a3d4f5/32.png) [@AwSnappity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AwSnappity)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2004, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meet-the-fockers-what-were-they-thinking/279012/34 "2004-12-10T16:52:15Z")
> [@RevCo](#): > > I still remember one of the funniest SNL’s I’ve seen in a decade - it was with Nicholas Cage hosting - he did a tiny Elvis skit that was really funny was the guy who was obsessing to the point of hysterics the name of his not yet born son and how people will pick on him, and in the end the guy gets a package and it’s for “Mr. Asswipe?” and NC pronounces it, “That’s Azz-we-pay!” There was also a SNL skit where this guy had his name pronounced wrong (the embarrassing way) every day (I wish I could remember what it was!) and no one listens to him when he tells him the alternate way. So finally he goes on a killing spree or something and ends up in jail. His cellmate pronounces his name properly. Guy is all relieved and amazed. Cellmate has an equally embarrassing name that lent itself to poor pronounciation. I think Kevin Nealon was in it. And now that I’m thinking about it, I think one guy’s name was like Fagina or Bagina or something. Found it! [The Life and Times of Johnny Hildo](http://snltranscripts.jt.org/91/91mhildo.phtml) ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2004, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meet-the-fockers-what-were-they-thinking/279012/35 "2004-12-10T17:55:10Z")
Just FYI: Box Office Prophets is running a [“Meet the Fockers” contest.](http://www.boxofficeprophets.com/column/index.cfm?columnID=8699) Send in your fave weird name and win. In the farming area my family comes from, there’s 3 generations of "Chuck Farley"s. None with a middle initial “U” though. ---
**Author:** ![Lemur866](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lemur866/32/434_2.png) [@Lemur866](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lemur866)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2004, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meet-the-fockers-what-were-they-thinking/279012/36 "2004-12-10T17:56:12Z")
> [@CapnPitt](#): > > [hijack] > > At the University of Pittsburgh, yup, Professor Dick Cox. Good guy too. > > [http://www.sis.pitt.edu/~dlis/people/fulltime\_faculty\_bios.html#Cox](http://www.sis.pitt.edu/%7Edlis/people/fulltime_faculty_bios.html#Cox) > > [/hijack] I one knew a girl named Ophelia Cox. That’s gotta hurt. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2004, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meet-the-fockers-what-were-they-thinking/279012/37 "2004-12-10T19:13:09Z")
**RevCo** , that was a funny bit. Cage’s character was named Asswipe Johnson. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![sleeepy2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@sleeepy2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sleeepy2)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2004, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meet-the-fockers-what-were-they-thinking/279012/38 "2004-12-10T19:56:36Z")
I knew a Holly Wood. It’s like her parents were begging her to be a stripper. ---
**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2004, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meet-the-fockers-what-were-they-thinking/279012/39 "2004-12-10T20:10:05Z")
> [@sleeepy2](#): > > I knew a Holly Wood. It’s like her parents were begging her to be a stripper. and on a related note, I knew of a stage mother desperate to get her kid to every audition…in order to get her foot in more casting doors, the stage mother changed her own name to Beverly Hills. ---
**Author:** ![Hyperelastic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Hyperelastic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hyperelastic)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2004, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meet-the-fockers-what-were-they-thinking/279012/40 "2004-12-10T20:28:23Z")
> [@rjung](#): > > I’ve known several folks with the Japanese surname Takeshita, and I always wonder how many times they’ve had to endure “take-a sh\*t-a” jokes in school… I used to work with a bunch of Japanese guys (but no Takeshitas). Whenever I had to pinch a loaf, I’d say to my American colleagues, “I need to go see Mr. Takeshita”. (Takeshita is pronounced something like Ta-kesshy-ta, nothing like the other thing). Nobody got the joke until I had to explain it, and then, of course, it wasn’t funny. I do not want to meet the Fockers. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meet-the-fockers-what-were-they-thinking/279012.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meet-the-fockers-what-were-they-thinking/279012.md?page=3)