# Strange but true names
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-but-true-names/160544
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [March 11, 2003, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-but-true-names/160544 "2003-03-11T14:09:07Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 4
### Author:  [@racer72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racer72)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2003, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-but-true-names/160544/61 "2003-03-12T03:41:47Z")
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> \*Originally posted by MixieArmadillo \*
> \*\*When I was naught but a young pup, there was a guy in my hometown phone book named Harold Butts. This gave rise to many hours of snickering for ten year old children.
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> Peace,
> ~mixie \*\*
I went to high school with Harry Butts III. Both his father and grand father were Harrys too. He had a younger brother named Charles but he was called Roach since he was a little kid and that is what everyone called him.
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### Author:  [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2003, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-but-true-names/160544/62 "2003-03-12T03:51:24Z")
I know a man maned Mike Hunt. And another named Mike Hund. The second is less suggestive than the first, but said quickly they sound the same.
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### Author:  [@LifeOnWry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LifeOnWry)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2003, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-but-true-names/160544/63 "2003-03-12T04:07:30Z")
I went to school with Homer G. Homer III, and did business with a John Dodo and a Mike Litt.
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### Author:  [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2003, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-but-true-names/160544/64 "2003-03-12T04:09:58Z")
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> \*Originally posted by hrhomer \*
> \*\*A customer at the video store I use do manage was named Annelise Wunderlich.
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> Anal Ease Wonder Lick.
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> hrh \*\*
It’s pronounced:
Ahna - lee-sa Vunder-lick
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### Author:  [@Miss\_Piggy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Piggy)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2003, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-but-true-names/160544/65 "2003-03-12T05:17:53Z")
I went to school for years with a girl named Cheri (pronounced “Cherry”) Beavers.
I didn’t find that odd until talking about her in college to a group of friends, who didn’t believe that someone actually had that name.
There is also a doctor in my town named Dr. Butcher.
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### Author:  [@Theom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Theom)
#### Post date: [March 13, 2003, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-but-true-names/160544/66 "2003-03-13T17:25:09Z")
\*\* godzillatemple \*\* woah! In my country bint is a term for a woman, more ususally a daft woman. Bint or bloke! Casual terms mearly.
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### Author:  [@Nangleator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nangleator)
#### Post date: [March 13, 2003, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-but-true-names/160544/67 "2003-03-13T19:14:00Z")
What is it with doctors? I’ve seen these in a physician directory:
Doctor Boctor
Dr. Bum Suck Lee
Dr. Richard Dick (urologist)
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### Author:  [@godzillatemple](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/godzillatemple)
#### Post date: [March 13, 2003, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-but-true-names/160544/68 "2003-03-13T19:24:45Z")
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> \*Originally posted by Theom \*
> \*\*\*\* godzillatemple \*\* woah! In my country bint is a term for a woman, more ususally a daft woman. Bint or bloke! Casual terms mearly. \*\*
Fair enough. Maybe things a bit different in Wales, but my friends from England have always told me (and my dictionary agrees with them) that it is a very vulgar, coarse term, on par with c\*nt. If you say you didn’t mean it that way, I believe you.
Barry
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### Author:  [@RAWDuke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RAWDuke)
#### Post date: [March 13, 2003, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-but-true-names/160544/69 "2003-03-13T21:14:11Z")
Former Minnesota Vikings head coach Bud Grant’s whole name is Harry Peter Grant.
We had a customer in Minneapolis named Candy Ash. I figured she was a stripper:D
We have a Dr. Butcher working in Orthopedics.
We had a customer named Les Phlegm
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### Author:  [@Intaglio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intaglio)
#### Post date: [March 13, 2003, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-but-true-names/160544/70 "2003-03-13T21:15:15Z")
I had a Dentist in the Navy - in Boot Camp
Cmd. Frederick Kruegger - Freddie Kruegger - Friday the 13th.
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### Author:  [@Merseybeat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merseybeat)
#### Post date: [March 13, 2003, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-but-true-names/160544/71 "2003-03-13T21:23:28Z")
The first job I had, the manager’s name was Bill Anker. His door nameplate said “W.Anker”
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### Author:  [@AntaresJB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AntaresJB)
#### Post date: [March 13, 2003, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-but-true-names/160544/72 "2003-03-13T21:36:04Z")
Oh I forgot one more. One of the voice professors at my school is a Korean guy named Youngsuck Kim.
😃
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### Author:  [@Snickers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snickers)
#### Post date: [March 13, 2003, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-but-true-names/160544/73 "2003-03-13T21:38:58Z")
In my hometown there is a (now retired) doctor by the name of Dr. Doctor. And the man who officiated my wedding (“and in this corner, in white, weighing in at 135 pounds – Snickers!!”) was Pastor Plaster. Really. It’s fun to tell others.
Snicks
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### Author:  [@LifeOnWry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LifeOnWry)
#### Post date: [March 13, 2003, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-but-true-names/160544/74 "2003-03-13T22:14:18Z")
Ha, **Snickers** - our old minister was Pastor Castor Roofs, and I remember standing outside one Sunday morning listening at the door, then turning to my little sister and saying, “No, we’re not late. Sunday school hasn’t started yet. Pastor Castor’s still doing his German sermon.”
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### Author:  [@lightingtool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lightingtool)
#### Post date: [March 13, 2003, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-but-true-names/160544/75 "2003-03-13T22:48:55Z")
I beleive “Dick Sweat” ran for office in NH when my brother lived there.
Slightly off topic, but a good friend of mine’s given name is Tom Jones. It’s not unusual…
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### Author:  [@SlowMindThinking](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlowMindThinking)
#### Post date: [March 13, 2003, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-but-true-names/160544/76 "2003-03-13T22:51:00Z")
In the philly area, there is a construction worker with the pre-Peanuts name of: Joe Kuhl.
I believe that there was a family in my hometown area with two girls (older than me, or I’d be sure) with the names Holly and Mary Christmas.
I recall reading of a guy who spent his life examining weird names in US census data. The name he gave that I remember was Submit Crouch.
I’ve also met a James Bond, and a Richard Head.
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### Author:  [@SlowMindThinking](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlowMindThinking)
#### Post date: [March 13, 2003, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-but-true-names/160544/77 "2003-03-13T22:55:42Z")
Oh, and I forgot a famous figure from history. He destroyed (Well, he helped a lot.)an Augustinian army that crossed the Rhine when Augustine was trying to link up through what is now Germany.
Hermanicus Germanicus
or
Herman the German
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### Author:  [@crypto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crypto)
#### Post date: [March 14, 2003, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-but-true-names/160544/78 "2003-03-14T00:34:37Z")
I went to high school with both a Chris Cross and a Chris Kringle.
And I read in the paper about some local boob who changed his official name to Heywood Jablomi.
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### Author:  [@Rubystreak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rubystreak)
#### Post date: [March 14, 2003, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-but-true-names/160544/79 "2003-03-14T00:47:22Z")
I knew a guy named Peter Head. His parents were that clueless.
Once, when I was a receptionist, a guy named Dick Blood called for my boss, and as juvenile as it is, I had a lot of trouble paging in and saying, “Jim, Dick Blood for you on 1.”
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### Author:  [@legalsnugs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/legalsnugs)
#### Post date: [March 14, 2003, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-but-true-names/160544/80 "2003-03-14T01:29:17Z")
My office is getting a new secretary: Crystal Springs. I hear her mother’s name is Alpine Springs.
And I’m surprised no one has mentioned the brilliant jurist, Learned Hand.
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