# Oh my, now THAT'S an unfortunate name! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 8, 2003, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-my-now-thats-an-unfortunate-name/173792 "2003-05-08T00:05:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2003, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-my-now-thats-an-unfortunate-name/173792/1 "2003-05-08T00:05:49Z")
[Barrie Mycock](http://www.staffordshire.gov.uk/live/dynamic/cllr/CllrDetails.asp?CllrID=18) ---
**Author:** ![Payne\_N.Diaz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b77776/32.png) [@Payne\_N.Diaz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Payne_N.Diaz)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2003, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-my-now-thats-an-unfortunate-name/173792/2 "2003-05-08T00:17:53Z")
Parents who give their children such names should be summarily executed, but, let’s face it, there’s not a lot you can do with “Mycock.” Umm, let me rephrase that… ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2003, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-my-now-thats-an-unfortunate-name/173792/3 "2003-05-08T00:21:10Z")
There is a guy over in Grand Rapids, MI area that has the name of \*\*Gary Swinehart \*\*, I think he sells life insurance. I dunno. The name just blinded my brain. ---
**Author:** ![Rysdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7cd45c/32.png) [@Rysdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysdad)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2003, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-my-now-thats-an-unfortunate-name/173792/4 "2003-05-08T00:25:05Z")
I mentioned this in another thread recently, but I saw a news story not too long ago, and the guy they were interviewing had the first name of Athol. I wondered if his sister was named, “Thlut.” Someone later said in that same thread that Athol was a well-known name in some country or other. Who cares? That name just plain sucks. ---
**Author:** ![Crunchy\_Frog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ebca7d/32.png) [@Crunchy\_Frog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crunchy_Frog)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2003, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-my-now-thats-an-unfortunate-name/173792/5 "2003-05-08T00:28:57Z")
I went to school with a girl named **Velvet Beaver**. No kidding. I will dig up my yearbooks and show anyone who’s interested in having that verifed. What were her parents thinking? ---
**Author:** ![Shayna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shayna/32/17976_2.png) [@Shayna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shayna)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2003, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-my-now-thats-an-unfortunate-name/173792/6 "2003-05-08T00:42:41Z")
I know I post this in every thread about horrifying names , so please forgive me for the repetition. I used to see a neurologist in St. Louis whose name was (honest to Og!) **Dick Head**. Go to [www.superpages.com](http://www.superpages.com) and do a search for Richard Head in St. Louis, MO. You’ll find his listing at Head Richard MD 10004 Kennerly Road, Saint Louis, MO 63128 He was a treating physician in [this lawsuit](http://www.dolir.state.mo.us/lirc/wcdecisions/Wcdec99%5CLinglT.htm). I mean, that’s just horrible on so many levels. A head doctor named Dr. Head is bad enough, but on top of it, he’s a Dick Head?! That poor, poor kid – what he must’ve suffered growing up. ---
**Author:** ![Clint\_in\_Wichita](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7993a0/32.png) [@Clint\_in\_Wichita](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clint_in_Wichita)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2003, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-my-now-thats-an-unfortunate-name/173792/7 "2003-05-08T00:43:55Z")
The Seattle Seahawks used to employ a DB named **Harry Colon**. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2003, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-my-now-thats-an-unfortunate-name/173792/8 "2003-05-08T00:48:37Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Crunchy Frog \* > \*\*I went to school with a girl named **Velvet Beaver**. > > No kidding. I will dig up my yearbooks and show anyone who’s interested in having that verifed. What were her parents thinking? \*\* That um, they wanted to have a daughter who became a porn actress? Seriously, that is a GREAT porn name! ---
**Author:** ![Latino\_Yoshi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/5e9695/32.png) [@Latino\_Yoshi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Latino_Yoshi)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2003, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-my-now-thats-an-unfortunate-name/173792/9 "2003-05-08T01:18:16Z")
I remember David Letterman was once looking at interesting newspaper clippings, one of them had somebody by the name of **Dick Assman**. Letterman contacted him and he ended up being a regular feature on the show for the better part of a month. ---
**Author:** ![jackelope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a6a055/32.png) [@jackelope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackelope)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2003, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-my-now-thats-an-unfortunate-name/173792/10 "2003-05-08T01:19:01Z")
I knew a girl in fourth grade named Candy Boan. Pronounced “Bone,” of course. I think “Candy Bone” would be another great porn name. ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2003, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-my-now-thats-an-unfortunate-name/173792/11 "2003-05-08T01:29:16Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by jackelope \* > \*\*I knew a girl in fourth grade named Candy Boan. Pronounced “Bone,” of course. I think “Candy Bone” would be another great porn name. \*\* I went to school with a whole family of **Boan** s. A family of **Dicks** , a guy named Tim **Gayness** , I knew a guy named Jim **Gay** and a company I worked for had a part owner named Brandon **Fag**. ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2003, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-my-now-thats-an-unfortunate-name/173792/12 "2003-05-08T02:09:41Z")
I met a **Hoare** recently. Since we were both working as rent-a-foreigners at the time, we agreed it was a pretty appropriate name. ---
**Author:** ![calm\_kiwi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9fc348/32.png) [@calm\_kiwi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/calm_kiwi)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2003, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-my-now-thats-an-unfortunate-name/173792/13 "2003-05-08T02:55:29Z")
My brother had a girlfriend with the surname Boocock, her friends all called her Scarypecker. ---
**Author:** ![Sigmundex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e19adc/32.png) [@Sigmundex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmundex)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2003, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-my-now-thats-an-unfortunate-name/173792/14 "2003-05-08T03:17:30Z")
Well, you all have a celebrity in your midst, if you didn’t know it. Somewhere roundabout 1979 or 1980 my submission to the show “Real People” was read on the air. I had sent in a page from our phonebook that had a listing for a “Noah Nothing”. That was his real name. Turned out he was an old preacher, I believe. I never met the guy, but I sure was styling in my “Real People” t-shirt at school the next day. ---
**Author:** ![Ruby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/13edae/32.png) [@Ruby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruby)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2003, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-my-now-thats-an-unfortunate-name/173792/15 "2003-05-08T03:23:17Z")
My mother told a story of two people that were dating thatshe knew in her “younger days”… her name was hollopeter and his name was longerbone. Gah. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2003, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-my-now-thats-an-unfortunate-name/173792/16 "2003-05-08T03:29:32Z")
I went to college with a girl named Roxanne Clay. I swear. ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2003, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-my-now-thats-an-unfortunate-name/173792/17 "2003-05-08T03:33:18Z")
Real name of my friend’s former boss: Dick Whithers. Haj ---
**Author:** ![t-keela](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a3d4f5/32.png) [@t-keela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/t-keela)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2003, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-my-now-thats-an-unfortunate-name/173792/18 "2003-05-08T03:45:26Z")
When they run the credits at the end of “Cheers” and also on “Frasier” one of the producers name is… Mary Fukuto I can hear roll call at school now. Teacher: Mary…fuh…uh…er…hmm Mary: Yeah that’s right… Fuck you too 😃 Unless that’s her married name, then of course her husband’s first name would HAVE to be? ---
**Author:** ![Billdo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/billdo/32/315_2.png) [@Billdo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Billdo)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2003, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-my-now-thats-an-unfortunate-name/173792/19 "2003-05-08T03:47:15Z")
After reading this [article](http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20030508/ap_on_re_us/nude_models_union_4), I found out the president of the Moore College of Art in Philadelphia is: Dr. Happy Craven Fernandez What else can one say. ---
**Author:** ![Zoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a4c791/32.png) [@Zoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoe)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2003, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-my-now-thats-an-unfortunate-name/173792/20 "2003-05-08T03:51:19Z")
I saw a woman on one of the TV court shows whose first name is Smurfette. Her mother actually named her after Smurfs. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-my-now-thats-an-unfortunate-name/173792.md?page=2)