# 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:** 5
### Author:  [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)
#### Post date: [March 14, 2003, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-but-true-names/160544/81 "2003-03-14T01:38:15Z")
A old guy (now dead) who lived down the street from my old house: Norbert Putz.
Strange names collected from a Customer List I worked with many years ago, but still remember;
Clarence Cuts the Rope
Dextex Demplewolf
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### Author:  [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)
#### Post date: [March 14, 2003, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-but-true-names/160544/82 "2003-03-14T01:48:16Z")
There used to be a race car driver named “Dick Trickle.”
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### Author:  [@raz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/raz)
#### Post date: [March 14, 2003, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-but-true-names/160544/83 "2003-03-14T03:12:21Z")
I found one mister **Rusty Flack** in the phone book one evening. It sounds like something a chain smoker would hack up. I also discovered **Herschel Frankenberry**. That one was good for a laugh.
I go to church with **Hannahlore Mahoney**
My grandma used to work with a lady named **Lilly Dilly**.
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### Author:  [@jono](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jono)
#### Post date: [March 14, 2003, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-but-true-names/160544/84 "2003-03-14T03:30:24Z")
Theres a guy at my uni called Neil Downward.
A played cricket with Lewis Booty
the Australian communications minister (?) is called Richard Face
the head of ABC was Donald Donaldson
and theres a disgraced cop called Roger Rogerson
and this sounds like a good a post as any this classic piece of Cricekt commentary:
“The bowler’s Holding the umpire’s Willey”
referring of course to Michael HOlding and umpire peter willey
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### Author:  [@Mirror\_Image\_egamI\_rorriM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mirror_Image_egamI_rorriM)
#### Post date: [March 14, 2003, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-but-true-names/160544/85 "2003-03-14T04:00:39Z")
I sit next to a girl named Britney Spearman in chemistry.
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### Author:  [@Barks\_dog\_food](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barks_dog_food)
#### Post date: [March 14, 2003, 6:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-but-true-names/160544/86 "2003-03-14T06:07:22Z")
I Norway there is a family with the surname Homo.
Yes it means the same here.
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### Author:  [@Lord\_Vega](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Vega)
#### Post date: [March 14, 2003, 6:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-but-true-names/160544/87 "2003-03-14T06:30:04Z")
My eye doctor’s name is Roger Boyd Strange. His business card reads Roger B. Strange.
Good eye doc though.
Cheers,
Vega
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### Author:  [@yola](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yola)
#### Post date: [March 14, 2003, 11:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-but-true-names/160544/88 "2003-03-14T11:30:44Z")
I knew a kid in school whose name was Danny Mahoney. Then his mom married a guy named Mazoney. So he went from Danny Mahoney to Danny Mazoney. Or maybe it was the other way around.
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### Author:  [@Jammers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jammers)
#### Post date: [March 14, 2003, 12:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-but-true-names/160544/89 "2003-03-14T12:06:21Z")
There was an article in the newspapers about 6 months ago about a guy who changed his name by deed poll to “Playstation 2”
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### Author:  [@Radon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Radon)
#### Post date: [March 14, 2003, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-but-true-names/160544/90 "2003-03-14T12:39:00Z")
In the sixties, Pittsburgh mayor Barr apparently had a daughter Candi.
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### Author:  [@ralph124c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ralph124c)
#### Post date: [March 14, 2003, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-but-true-names/160544/91 "2003-03-14T13:59:44Z")
Two engineers at MOTOROLA (Elma NY):
Tom Sick and Mike Queer
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### Author:  [@Floater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Floater)
#### Post date: [March 14, 2003, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-but-true-names/160544/92 "2003-03-14T14:30:12Z")
German footballer Bernd Hölzenbein (peg leg)
Austrian alpine skier Johan Kniewasser (water in the knee)
Sweden based author of English text books Dennis Gotobed
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### Author:  [@buddy129](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddy129)
#### Post date: [March 14, 2003, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-but-true-names/160544/93 "2003-03-14T21:38:27Z")
In my hometown, there was a car dealer with the name “Dick Hunt.”
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### Author:  [@hardygrrl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hardygrrl)
#### Post date: [March 15, 2003, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-but-true-names/160544/94 "2003-03-15T00:28:28Z")
> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by lurkernomore \*
> \*\*Remembered another one - used to work in micrographics - I was doing QC on some microfiche for a credit card co. Put a fiche in a viewer, saw a bill, the account holder’s name:
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> Princess Beavers
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> Anyone think she may have done porn? \*\*
There’s a girl who went to high school with **Crunchy Frog** (I saw the yearbook) named Velvet Beavers. Maybe a cousin?
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### Author:  [@lurkernomore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lurkernomore)
#### Post date: [March 15, 2003, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-but-true-names/160544/95 "2003-03-15T00:37:40Z")
> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by hardygrrl \*
> \*\*There’s a girl who went to high school with **Crunchy Frog** (I saw the yearbook) named Velvet Beavers. Maybe a cousin? \*\*
Distant cousin, maybe - the address was Oregon.😛
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### Author:  [@WonTon\_Sean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WonTon_Sean)
#### Post date: [March 15, 2003, 7:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-but-true-names/160544/96 "2003-03-15T07:15:49Z")
I remember a guy named Jacuuzi Johnson that went to my high school.
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### Author:  [@wearywitch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wearywitch)
#### Post date: [March 15, 2003, 7:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-but-true-names/160544/97 "2003-03-15T07:32:53Z")
> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by xizor \*
> \*\*I know a Harold (Harry) Peters. \*\*
Yeah? Lucky guy. My poor uncle, Harold Dick (yep, Harry) died 2 years ago… Just having the surname “Dick” was pure and total Hell on Earth… poor Harry… as a kid I wondered why he was a grumpy old drunk.
I think I know. Now.
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### Author:  [@dahempfaerie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dahempfaerie)
#### Post date: [March 15, 2003, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-but-true-names/160544/98 "2003-03-15T16:43:24Z")
I know a guy named **Dusty Trail** who married a woman named **Wendy**. He also has a sister named **Sandy**.
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### Author:  [@TwungTister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TwungTister)
#### Post date: [March 15, 2003, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-but-true-names/160544/99 "2003-03-15T18:44:36Z")
What’s with all these Richards? I wrote a humongous post about this on another thread.
college professor: Richard Jean Richards
married to: Jeanne Richards
Then there’s the poet: William Carlos Williams
college acquaintance: Holly Wood
Marjorie Cowmeadow turn anyone on?
Man in the Twin Cities made his legal name Joybubbles.
A girl named Diane went out with a Chris Young. She didn’t Di Young. His dad’s name was Les. Les Young!
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### Author:  [@MLS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MLS)
#### Post date: [March 15, 2003, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-but-true-names/160544/100 "2003-03-15T18:48:43Z")
> [@](#):
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> You can’t always believe what you read in the phone book.
Friend of mine was annoyed that the phone company (known “affectionally” back then as “Ma Bell”) charged too much for an unlisted number. So he put the account under “Mabel Shuvit” which, of course, got listed as “Shuvit, Mabel” (“Shove it, Ma Bell.”)
I had a student in my class once named Princess Bernard. One of the upper classmen wanted to know if she had a brother named Saint.
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