# Strangely appropriate names

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangely-appropriate-names/31115>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [August 29, 2000, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangely-appropriate-names/31115 "2000-08-29T00:41:57Z")\
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**Author:** ![Duke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e8c25b/32.png) [@Duke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke)\
**Post date:** [August 29, 2000, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangely-appropriate-names/31115/1 "2000-08-29T00:41:57Z")

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Last week on the radio there was a report on the swine fever epidemic in East Anglia. After a brief introduction, the announcer turned over to “our environment correspondent, Robert Piggott.”

That got me thinking about other people with strangely appropriate names. For example: our shop teacher in high school, Mr. Tule (yep, pronounced as you’d expect).

Any more out there?

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**Author:** ![wolfman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a8b319/32.png) [@wolfman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfman)\
**Post date:** [August 29, 2000, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangely-appropriate-names/31115/2 "2000-08-29T01:05:08Z")

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I still love the genetics and cloning expert Dick Seed.  
The main spokesman for the Geological service, meaning he always came on and talked about the earthquakes, was Waverly(?) Persons or something really cool like that.

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**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\
**Post date:** [August 29, 2000, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangely-appropriate-names/31115/3 "2000-08-29T01:43:42Z")

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I had a high school history teacher named Mz. Heil. It fit pretty closely, except she was more evil.