Ha! When I was a nurse’s aide we made up names to be paged all the time. “Dr Dick, Dr Harry Dick” “Miss Dude, Miss Ima Dude” “Dr Lo, Dr Won Hung Lo” “Mr Gie, Mr Sum Young Gie”
We got caught when the head of the engineering dept called saying " I was paged, but I’m MrHarry Dick, not Dr oops :
As far as real names, there was Dr Doctor & partners in an orthopedic practice were Drs Pillow and Paine.
That’d be my home team also home to player Coco Crisp- no joke. I just saw my team cream the Devil Rays. Mr. Bradley was not playing.
On our football team (the Browns) we have or used to have a player named Ben Gay. Again, no joke- it’s bad enough to have your last name be Gay, but to have Ben too?
My ol’ Dad claims, with regards to the tiny hick town of his childhood, that a “Hackett” family owned a number of the stores. The original Mr. Hackett and one son ran a store, another son ran a second, and one daughter ran a haberdashery/fabric store:
Hackett and Hackett the barbers.
Hackett the butcher.
Miss Hackett the dressmaker.
An old classmate of mine had a father with an unfortunate first name, considering his last name was Missing. Dick Missing…he preferred to be called Richard.
Yes, definitely. The thing is, I (and presumably others) can tell the difference between the real yet unfortuate names and the made-up ones. It kind of spoils the fun.
Speaking of spoiling the fun, I am a spoilsport. Back to your regularly scheduled posting.