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
There used to be a race car driver named “Dick Trickle.”
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.
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
I sit next to a girl named Britney Spearman in chemistry.
I Norway there is a family with the surname Homo.
Yes it means the same here.
My eye doctor’s name is Roger Boyd Strange. His business card reads Roger B. Strange.
Good eye doc though.
Cheers,
Vega
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.
There was an article in the newspapers about 6 months ago about a guy who changed his name by deed poll to “Playstation 2”
In the sixties, Pittsburgh mayor Barr apparently had a daughter Candi.
Two engineers at MOTOROLA (Elma NY):
Tom Sick and Mike Queer
German footballer Bernd Hölzenbein (peg leg)
Austrian alpine skier Johan Kniewasser (water in the knee)
Sweden based author of English text books Dennis Gotobed
In my hometown, there was a car dealer with the name “Dick Hunt.”
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.
I remember a guy named Jacuuzi Johnson that went to my high school.
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.
I know a guy namedDusty Trail who married a woman named Wendy . He also has a sister named Sandy .
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!
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.