# Phuc Dat Bich **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 24, 2015, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phuc-dat-bich/738395 "2015-11-24T01:31:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Channing\_Idaho\_Banks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/channing_idaho_banks/32/250_2.png) [@Channing\_Idaho\_Banks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Channing_Idaho_Banks)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2015, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phuc-dat-bich/738395/21 "2015-11-25T14:31:59Z")
One of the doctors in my neighborhood: Dr. Robert G. Aycock. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2015, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phuc-dat-bich/738395/22 "2015-11-25T14:39:53Z")
While perhaps hilarious for the prankster, I don’t think this speaks to any undesirable gullibility on the part of media. It’s more akin to people falling for clickbait ads from “satirical” websites that proclaim such edgy and subversive headlines like “Hillary Clinton quitting race for nomination!” than people falling for Onion headlines. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2015, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phuc-dat-bich/738395/23 "2015-11-25T15:19:15Z")
> [@Diceman](#): > > Um, you do know that Australia is an English-speaking country, right? I’d put the odds of “Phuc Dat Bich” being a joke at 99%, at least. Mr. Bich just happens to be the other 1% of the time when it isn’t a joke, and that seriously is his name. I should ask if you’re wondering what that giant whooshing sound is that you’re hearing. 😉 > [@kferr](#): > > It’s now being reported as a hoax: > [BBC story](http://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-34918491) > [@Idle\_Thoughts](#): > > Nooo! Phuc Dat Bich! :eek: I should have known it was too good to be true. But if you can’t trust the BBC, whom can you trust? ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2015, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phuc-dat-bich/738395/24 "2015-11-25T15:25:17Z")
Please don’t tell me [gynecologist Dr. Harry Beaver](http://health.usnews.com/doctors/harry-beaver-784569) isn’t real! ---
**Author:** ![jsquire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ce73a5/32.png) [@jsquire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsquire)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2015, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phuc-dat-bich/738395/25 "2015-11-25T16:03:09Z")
[Urologist Dr. Dick Tapper](http://health.usnews.com/doctors/richard-tapper-132915) most certainly is real, he did my cousin’s vasectomy. ---
**Author:** ![Chicken\_Fingers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Chicken\_Fingers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chicken_Fingers)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2015, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phuc-dat-bich/738395/26 "2015-11-25T20:59:53Z")
How about Phat Phuc (happy Buddha) as a nice name? I hear the natives pronounce Norfolk as Nawf’k. ---
**Author:** ![lisiate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f05b48/32.png) [@lisiate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lisiate)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2015, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phuc-dat-bich/738395/27 "2015-11-25T21:55:06Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > Please don’t tell me [gynecologist Dr. Harry Beaver](http://health.usnews.com/doctors/harry-beaver-784569) isn’t real! > [@jsquire](#): > > [Urologist Dr. Dick Tapper](http://health.usnews.com/doctors/richard-tapper-132915) most certainly is real, he did my cousin’s vasectomy. The \*New Scientist \* has been chronicling such cases of [nominative determinism](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nominative_determinism)for over twenty years. ---
**Author:** ![Greg\_Charles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/839c29/32.png) [@Greg\_Charles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Greg_Charles)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2015, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phuc-dat-bich/738395/28 "2015-11-25T21:59:42Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > :eek: I should have known it was too good to be true. But if you can’t trust the BBC, whom can you trust? You could have trusted me. 🙂 Unfortunately, I didn’t see this thread in time, but I called it out as implausible in several other places before it was revealed as a hoax. Bich is a common enough Vietnamese given name (mostly for females), but it’s not a surname. Now, if he’d gone with Phuc Dat Ho, I would have believed him. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2015, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phuc-dat-bich/738395/29 "2015-11-26T01:50:59Z")
> [@Greg\_Charles](#): > > Bich is a common enough Vietnamese given name (mostly for females) … Heh. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2015, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phuc-dat-bich/738395/30 "2015-11-26T22:27:17Z")
Well, years ago, the insurance company I worked for had a Korean Client named “Yoo-suck Kim,” which isn’t much better. ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2015, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phuc-dat-bich/738395/31 "2015-11-26T23:24:21Z")
> [@astorian](#): > > Well, years ago, the insurance company I worked for had a Korean Client named “Yoo-suck Kim,” which isn’t much better. Did the company have any agent named Kim? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2015, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phuc-dat-bich/738395/32 "2015-11-27T01:57:30Z")
> [@mbh](#): > > Did the company have any agent named Kim? 🙂 I dunno, but Kim is like Smith in Korea, so he had a long line of takers. ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2015, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phuc-dat-bich/738395/33 "2015-11-27T05:05:40Z")
> [@astorian](#): > > I dunno, but Kim is like Smith in Korea, so he had a long line of takers. That’s even understated, as 22% of Koreans are named Kim or it’s variants due to Romanization. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2015, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phuc-dat-bich/738395/34 "2015-11-28T00:28:41Z")
> [@astorian](#): > > Well, years ago, the insurance company I worked for had a Korean Client named “Yoo-suck Kim,” which isn’t much better. In Korea, they place the names the other way around, surname first. So people there would always be telling him “Kim Yoo-suck.” ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2015, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phuc-dat-bich/738395/35 "2015-11-30T16:59:30Z")
Mediaite has a somewhat more detail report on this hoax, allegedly perpetrated by a certain Joe Carr, including a rather lengthy comment from Mr. Carr himself. [‘Phuc Dat’: Of Course Viral Story About Facebook Profile Was a Hoax](http://www.mediaite.com/online/phuc-dat-of-course-viral-story-about-facebook-profile-was-a-hoax/). The BBC article that **kferr** linked, above, seems to hint (hint, hint) that even that is questionable, as “Joe Carr” can also be read as a pun on “joker”. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2015, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phuc-dat-bich/738395/36 "2015-11-30T17:03:00Z")
_snerk_ “Joe Carr” indeed. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2015, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phuc-dat-bich/738395/37 "2015-12-01T22:08:37Z")
[Dam Son](http://img.ifcdn.com/images/e0b03a0930f6b5a82303fd9f51ab5dd2341dbc16980d75b4a25dfe2893a4f66a_1.jpg), that’s quite a story. ---
**Author:** ![TheSeaOtter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ed655f/32.png) [@TheSeaOtter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheSeaOtter)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2015, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phuc-dat-bich/738395/38 "2015-12-02T00:29:43Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > _snerk_ “Joe Carr” indeed. 😃 Well, if that actually were his name, it would be another supporting case for Nominative Determinism. At this point, though, I’m not sure I’d believe him no matter what he said his name was. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phuc-dat-bich/738395.md?page=1)