The man in charge of accounting for the three-store chain of North Carolina gay-and-lesbian bookstores, White Rabbit Books and Things, has been from birth a member of the Cocksman family.
and don’t forget the director of Barney Miller…
T. J. FLlCKER (T. J. Flicker)
I had a friend who’s first and middle names were John Thomas. Which as any Monty Python fan will tell is Brit slang for “penis.” Being gay, he thought it was pretty cool, but still…
Real name of the principal’s daughter at a local high school:
Terra Dickoff.
So one of my friend’s dad’s works in an inner-city ER, and tends to shrug off the foreign names of the patients who come in.
One day a mother brought in her two sick sons, pulling them by the hands and saying, “c’mon Oranjillo, movie it Limonjillo,” and he didn’t give it a second thought.
Until he went in to check their charts - the kids had been named “Orangejello” and “Lemonjello.”
I’m suprised no one brought up the guy from Montana (I think), who legally changed his name to:
[SIZE=3]Heywood JablowmeAn acquaintance tells me he knows of someone whose name is pronounced “Ah-SHO-lay.”
Guess how it’s spelled.
I went to school with twins named Kay and Gay Cox, and this in a small rural town in the Bible belt. Their parents were either incredibly naive or just plain mean. Of course, there’s the old joke about the Dover twins, Ben and Eileen. 
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Out of curiosity, are there state laws that prevent parents from bestowing risque/profane/controversial/misconstruable names on their children? I remember reading an Ann Landers column years ago about a case in Japan where some guy sued for the right to name his kid “Akuma” (“demon”), which the hospital or govt. birth records office was refusing to accept.
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In Quebec, the functionary who registers children’s names may , if s/he believes the name could humiliate or bring disrepute upon the child, “suggest” that the parents pick another name. If they refuse, and s/he believes the case severe enough, she can go to the law and force the use of a surname in common use.
This does go a certain distance in screening out the occasional Boom-Booms and Goldoraks, but it causes other problems.
For example, until recently you were not allowed to change your name to a name of the other gender without changing the gender on your birth certificate, which required in turn having a full sex-change operation. This was challenged by a pre-operative transsexual lawyer (she wanted to change her name from Michel to Micheline) and was struck down (whether just in her case or in general, I don’t know). One of the arguments was that, for example, “Andrea” is a woman’s name in English but a man’s name in Italian; similarly with “Jean” between English and French.
No joke… www.bendover.com
Another high school story. I graduated with a dude named…wait for it…
wait…
Mike Hoch. Sigh.
We have a dentist in my town called Dr. Watamaniuk.
Now that would be the first name I would pick out of the phonebook to work on my teeth - yeah right!
Hee hee, I love these threads!
There is a female physician in Sydney called Happy Ho. I kid you not.
LMAO!
Max
Considering strange British pronunciations, could Barrie’s last name be pronounced “Myco” by those in the UK? Consider that when “Cock” appears at the beginning of personal or place name in the UK, it’s pronounced as “co.”
Unfortunately, he was only a runner up in this contest.
Which is precisely what the principal would do with any boy who laid a hand on her.
I went to school with:
Mike Hunt
A friend worked with:
Dum Phuc
One of the all time wieners (as it were) remains the racer:
Dick Trickle
You gotta know he went through a passle o’ after school fights.
I mentioned this last year sometime, but I’ll do so again:
A former high school classmate of my borther’s was named Jack Wang. Betcha the kids at school had a bunch of fun with that one!
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I was stationed with a young woman whose name was Hooker. I think the only thing that prevented harrassment by coworkers was that she was the sweetest person you’d ever want to meet. No one would dare make a cheap comment about her name.
My dad tells of a girl he went to school with called Mayda Smellie, Smellie being a common Scottish surname, and Mayda not an unusual firstname… shocker of a combo, though!
I went to school with a Paige Turner…
An ex of mine’s brother had a kid… the surname: McCosker. The first name they chose (unthinkingly) for the child: Oscar
My friend, name of Michael Early, married a girl called Bronwyn. She insisted on hyphenating their surnames, being raised in a family of strong women… hence, they became the Early-Bird family.
A well known dyke-about-town in Brisbane, Australia, has the name of Gai Lemon. Yes, this is what her parents named her. They must have known what they were doing 