People with unfortunate names

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 ::o:

As far as real names, there was Dr Doctor & partners in an orthopedic practice were Drs Pillow and Paine.

You made me remember a girl I went to grade school with: Kimberly Clarke. We evil childern called her Kleenx

That’d be my home team :slight_smile: 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?

Merla

A frenchmen’s name I saw:

**Michel Cliche

(First name) Pierre-Pierre **

That’s a nickname. His given name is Covelli.

I have known both Suzy Clapsaddle and Harry Dick (the 3rd, strange family).

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.

Not that I doubt my Dad, but… :slight_smile:

Last name was Lee…

First name was literally General

The lady I spoke to who told me his name said, “Now, when you talk to him, do NOT call him General Lee, sir. Call him Mr General Lee.”

I never got the guts to ask what his middle name was…

“Disorder,” probably. :wink:

Kitty Humpstone

We had a science teacher called Mrs Hoare. And a sports teacher called Mr Seamen…

And there’s a doctor where my mum works called Dr Kilmore. Oh dear.

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. :slight_smile:

If Tuesday Weld Had married Frederick March’s son, would she be Tuesday March the second? :rolleyes:

I just mailed something to a Dr. Kille today, and there was a dentist named Dr. Moler in my hometown.

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. :slight_smile:

Hamsters are suffering so I haven’t rechecked the first two pages.

Has anyone mentioned Gaye Males yet?

October, I was going to mention Ima Hogg. That’s the first name that popped to mind.

AndrewT, Foster’s beer. And I’m not Australian! Do I get a prize for getting it? :smiley:

Merla, my brother went to school with a girl named Fay Gay and her twin brother Ben.

A childhood friend’s father was named Jack Jackson. Her little brother was Jack Jackson Jr.

I always thought this one was cool, actually, rather than unfortunate.

A young woman I know named Jade married a man with the surname Stone. Jade Stone. Gotta love it.

My dentists are Drs Paler and Wheeker.

I knew a guy named Asslan.

I also have a prof whose parents named her and her sisters Joy, Faith, Hope and Honor. I wonder what they would have named a son.