# 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:** 12\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Mal\_Adroit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df788c/32.png) [@Mal\_Adroit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mal_Adroit)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2004, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meet-the-fockers-what-were-they-thinking/279012/41 "2004-12-10T20:59:28Z")
Friend of mine was an OB nurse and once told me about a woman who pronounced the name of her newborn as _Shith-eed._ On paper, well . . . sigh. The woman did in fact spell it “Shithead.” ---
**Author:** ![borschevsky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/97f17d/32.png) [@borschevsky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/borschevsky)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2004, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meet-the-fockers-what-were-they-thinking/279012/42 "2004-12-10T21:47:09Z")
> [@Thudlow Boink](#): > > Anybody remember several years ago when David Letterman discovered Dick Assman? Sure, his gas station is just down the street from my house. There’s info about him on the web, but you’ll want to be careful if you Google for it 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2004, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meet-the-fockers-what-were-they-thinking/279012/43 "2004-12-10T22:41:18Z")
> [@Lemur866](#): > > I one knew a girl named Ophelia Cox. That’s gotta hurt. I’ve always found it most pleasant. There’s an exec in my office named Gasser. He pronounces it “gosser.” [Meet a Fokker.](http://www.tao-yin.com/baron-rouge/img/photos/avion-fokker.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Ignatz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/3be4f8/32.png) [@Ignatz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ignatz)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2004, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meet-the-fockers-what-were-they-thinking/279012/44 "2004-12-10T23:14:29Z")
Just thought of another one who made it thru high school o.k.- Mike Hunt. ---
**Author:** ![Askia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/96bed5/32.png) [@Askia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askia)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2004, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meet-the-fockers-what-were-they-thinking/279012/45 "2004-12-10T23:31:44Z")
I went to school with a female Robin Williams and a male Venus Williams. As far as innappropiate body part names go, I got nothin’. ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Sam\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Stone)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2004, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meet-the-fockers-what-were-they-thinking/279012/46 "2004-12-11T00:30:35Z")
This is nothing new for kid’s movies. In ‘Shrek’, the bad guy’s name was Lord Farqwad. ---
**Author:** ![AntaresJB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c2a13f/32.png) [@AntaresJB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AntaresJB)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2004, 7:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meet-the-fockers-what-were-they-thinking/279012/47 "2004-12-11T07:13:53Z")
Since we’re on the tangent, I had family doctors named Dr. Breaststicker and Dr. Midol. ---
**Author:** ![ITR\_champion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c67d28/32.png) [@ITR\_champion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ITR_champion)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2004, 8:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meet-the-fockers-what-were-they-thinking/279012/48 "2004-12-11T08:11:17Z")
47 posts into a thread on embarrassing names and no one has yet mentioned the legend of Ima Hogg. ---
**Author:** ![Jurph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/50afbb/32.png) [@Jurph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jurph)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2004, 12:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meet-the-fockers-what-were-they-thinking/279012/49 "2004-12-11T12:18:15Z")
Here’s a short biography of [Ima Hogg](http://www.famoustexans.com/imahogg.htm), since you asked. The museum she endowed in Houston (The Ima Hogg Museum) is quite nice. And in other news, my cousins go to a dentist whose last name is spelled Death, but pronounced “Teeth” (he’s Indian). How’s that for a slightly-creepy coincidence? Oh, and I went to high school with a Nicole Mones. And yes, she did. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Cardinal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardinal/32/4000_2.png) [@Cardinal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardinal)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2004, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meet-the-fockers-what-were-they-thinking/279012/50 "2004-12-11T18:48:47Z")
I used to ride my bike home past Chester Wimpy’s work truck with his name painted on the side. Another way home took you past the Greenslits. I once stopped and very carefully read the name handpainted on the mailbox, as the 'i" had a serif going left that made it look like it touched the “l”, making it look like “shts”, which was even worse. ---
**Author:** ![furt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/439d5e/32.png) [@furt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furt)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2004, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meet-the-fockers-what-were-they-thinking/279012/51 "2004-12-11T18:58:58Z")
Dick Waddington. ---
**Author:** ![DWToml815](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a8b319/32.png) [@DWToml815](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DWToml815)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2004, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meet-the-fockers-what-were-they-thinking/279012/52 "2004-12-11T19:06:56Z")
I actually did work with a Mike Hunt…Got one hell of a laugh out of that when he first transferred into my department. But as I was passing out checks I noticed he didn’t let much get to him…After all, he lived on E-Z street. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meet-the-fockers-what-were-they-thinking/279012.md?page=2)