# Omnibus Stupid MFers in the news thread (Part 1) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 31, 2021, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945 "2021-01-31T21:25:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 500
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2024, 6:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/9991 "2024-01-05T06:22:34Z")
Yeah, I guess we changed ours from Gazpacho, or maybe Gestapo. Nobody will take about it. ---
**Author:** ![OttoDaFe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ottodafe/32/356_2.png) [@OttoDaFe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OttoDaFe)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2024, 6:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/9992 "2024-01-05T06:56:23Z")
Your first point is correct (but a nitpick: the L should be uppercase). As for the second, some people think they’re being terribly funny by attributing the name to an obviously incorrect nationality; they’re half right. ---
**Author:** ![Stratocaster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stratocaster/32/16393_2.png) [@Stratocaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stratocaster)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2024, 10:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/9993 "2024-01-05T10:50:35Z")
My last name is the same as one of the members of a once very famous comedy duo. You youngsters may not know of them, but at one point everybody did. Anyway, I estimate that I was asked 10,000 times in my life “Hey, how’s [last name of the other guy]?” Delivered with a sly grin suggesting this was the first time anyone ever thought of this clever, clever line. So, yeah, it gets old and boring having a last name that’s a softball joke… ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2024, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/9994 "2024-01-05T13:34:46Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > Guspeaux is pronounced “guss-poe” dammit! > [@Buckaroo Bonzai](#): > > **Alien 1** : Yes, John Big-Booty. > **Alien 2** : It’s pronounced Boo-tay; Boo-tay!!!   > [@Superdude](#): > > a last name that is just a mispronunciation away from _virgin._ Bill Vogon? Is that you? ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2024, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/9995 "2024-01-05T14:12:20Z")
> [@Stratocaster](#): > > My last name is the same as one of the members of a once very famous comedy duo. You youngsters may not know of them, but at one point everybody did. > > Anyway, I estimate that I was asked 10,000 times in my life “Hey, how’s [last name of the other guy]?” Delivered with a sly grin suggesting this was the first time anyone ever thought of this clever, clever line. So, yeah, it gets old and boring having a last name that’s a softball joke… I have no idea what you’re talking about, says the guy who’s been hearing the same “joke” since Star Wars came out in 1977. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2024, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/9996 "2024-01-05T14:14:23Z")
Same-ish here. My last name is pronounced the same as that of a Major Nazi, and differs by only 1 letter. Mom always said she wished the SOBs name had been Schmidt instead. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2024, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/9997 "2024-01-05T14:24:22Z")
Nah. I have a very German last name. The last two syllables mean “mountain,” and the pronunciation is very close to the word _virgin_. And it didn’t help that I was batting 0-for-high school in the romance department. ---
**Author:** ![slumtrimpet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@slumtrimpet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slumtrimpet)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2024, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/9998 "2024-01-05T14:31:13Z")
In Canada my first name rhymes perfectly with vagina. I do not not pronounce it that way. Unfortunately, I moved to Canada. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2024, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/9999 "2024-01-05T14:43:47Z")
> [@Stratocaster](#): > > My last name is the same as one of the members of a once very famous comedy duo… Anyway, I estimate that I was asked 10,000 times in my life “Hey, how’s [last name of the other guy]?” If the duo is the one I’m guessing, and if you were not the straight man, those 10,000 people would shout, ‘Hey, [Stratoooooooh]!’ > [@slumtrimpet](#): > > In Canada my first name rhymes perfectly with vagina. I worked with a girl who’s name was spelled the same as the capital of Saskatchewan; but she, and everyone else with that name I ever encountered, pronounced it with a long-‘e’. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2024, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/10000 "2024-01-05T14:51:03Z")
> [@Stratocaster](#): > > So, yeah, it gets old and boring having a last name that’s a softball joke… Or a baseball joke, where you don’t care if someone is playing shortstop. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2024, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/10001 "2024-01-05T15:13:08Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > Same-ish here. My last name is pronounced the same as that of a Major Nazi, and differs by only 1 letter. Mom always said she wished the SOBs name had been Schmidt instead. My late first wife went to law school with a man named Goëring. Who really was a grand nephew some distance removed from the late unlamented head of the wartime Luftwaffe. ---
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2024, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/10002 "2024-01-05T15:26:11Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > My last name is pronounced the same as that of a Major Nazi Same here, except the Anglicized spelling is exactly the same. While I’ve received some good-natured ribbing about it, my dad, uncles, and grandfather were the targets of sometimes-intense hatred during WWII. ---
**Author:** ![slumtrimpet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@slumtrimpet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slumtrimpet)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2024, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/10003 "2024-01-05T15:30:16Z")
Pronounced with a long ‘e’ everywhere but Canada. I particularly enjoy when it’s shouted out by reception in a doctor’s office. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2024, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/10004 "2024-01-05T15:33:13Z")
At least that stupid MF wasn’t in Peru. > **[Truck Driver Plows Over Peru's 2,000-Year-Old Nazca Lines, Leaving 'Deep Scars'](https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/01/31/582269403/truck-driver-plows-over-perus-2-000-year-old-nazca-lines-leaving-deep-scars)** > > The driver reportedly said he didn't know the area because he had never traveled there before and that he left the road owing to a mechanical problem. But some think he was trying to avoid a toll. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2024, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/10005 "2024-01-05T15:45:50Z")
> [@slumtrimpet](#): > > Pronounced with a long ‘e’ everywhere but Canada. Like how only the people from Ohio call their city ‘Lime-uh’ instead of ‘Lee-muh’. (OK, everyone I know pronounces the beans that way.) I wonder if General Aviation pilots in Ohio use the wrong pronunciation? ‘Circleville Unicom, Grumman Five-Eight-Zero-One- **LIME-UH** …’ ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2024, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/10006 "2024-01-05T15:51:14Z")
Some of my dutch cousins with the last name _Ennema_ emigrated to the US . Eventually they changed it. ---
**Author:** ![Stratocaster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stratocaster/32/16393_2.png) [@Stratocaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stratocaster)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2024, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/10007 "2024-01-05T15:52:47Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > Or a baseball joke, where you don’t care if someone is playing shortstop. Yep, you got it. And to @Johnny_L.A, I’d be the short pudgy guy who sputters like a faulty machine whenever flabbergasted. ---
**Author:** ![Ann\_Hedonia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ann_hedonia/32/319_2.png) [@Ann\_Hedonia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ann_Hedonia)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2024, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/10008 "2024-01-05T15:56:46Z")
> [@Superdude](#): > > You have no idea the Hell high school was when you have a last name that is just a mispronunciation away from _virgin._ Go complain to my old classmate, a woman named Wanda Ball. ---
**Author:** ![abcdefghij](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/43a26b/32.png) [@abcdefghij](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/abcdefghij)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2024, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/10009 "2024-01-05T16:06:27Z")
> [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](#): > > Some of my dutch cousins with the last name _Ennema_ emigrated to the US . Eventually they changed it. In 90s, Toyota had a minivan that was popular in Japan called the Estima Emina. For some reason, it wasn’t marketed under that name in the US. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2024, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/10010 "2024-01-05T16:14:51Z")
> [@slumtrimpet](#): > > I particularly enjoy when it’s shouted out by reception in a doctor’s office. Just makes me think of this. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/fTaKDnSIb4c/hqdefault.jpg "The IT Crowd: Peter File") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTaKDnSIb4c) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945.md?page=499) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945.md?page=501)