I think I may have posted this once somewhere else, a long time ago, but I once met a man named Socrates Kreuzenstein. Not entirely strange, but undeniably cool.
The one I always thought was the funniest is that guy you always see getting getting interviewed on genetic matters, and sperm and stuff, then the caption pops up “Dick Seed”
Obviously he is a favorite interview of Comedy Central.
I went to high school with a girl named Lacey Dicks, and yup, her dad’s name was Harry.
–tygre
:wally
I wasn’t mentioned here, but I posted earlier that I also knew Orangejello and Lemonjello, as well as Million and Billion. I knew them personally! I can’t imagine what I can document to prove that, but they all lived in SouthEast DC. And yes, they were all African-American, since you brought it up. I never got around to asking where the names came from, but for the record, I do not believe that the mothers didn’t know what they meant.
I was perusing my kids’ elementary school yearbook, and saw one young man cruelly saddled with the name “Brown Ham”.
I use to work at Cape Lejeune and did the accounting for the officer’s club.
There was an officer named John America. Of course, he was a Captain.
Everytime I came across a bill for Captain America I had to smile…thank goodness I left before he got promoted.
I just saw this on the Washington Post’s web page.
One of their cuter producers is named Clare Oh.
[sub]Just mispronounce it slightly.[/sub]
Some names of my ancestors are, so help us all, Socrates, Napoleon Bonaparte Smith, Narcissus, Regula Bretscher - from Zurich, Deithelm Kelker, Menelia Omedith Johnson,
and Tristian Pugh.
What were their parents thinking?
Then again I sort of like the name I saw in a phone bookm Toy Wong.
My g.g. aunt was Polly Dorton.
A student where I work named “Marie Antoinette Schwartz.” Of course, that was her full name - she didn’t ordinarily use her middle name.
When I was a kid, our landlord’s name was Dick Head (but just “Mr. Head” to us).
Oh, I forgot. I also have a friend whose first name is M. Nope, not an initial. Just “M”. When I asked him about it, he said his mother liked short names.
If you think about it, you can have regular-sounding names using:
B
C
D
J
K
L
T
V
Z
K[sub][aye][/sub] was my mom’s name.
Re: Lemonjello–I remember there was a baseball player in the 1970s with that as a lastname (I think his first name was Mark). Seems to me he played for San Diego, though I might be wrong on that.
There was a candidate for Governor of Michigan in the '80s by the name of Dick Headlee.
There’s a football player (I think he’s with the Bears) named Brian Wetnight. Bad name to have in junior high school.
My father knew a Forest Logger and (I’m not kidding) a Sweetiepie Jones.
My personal favorites were two college student government presidents. Debra Blow was president one year, then was succeeded by Lori Longnecker.
A local family with the unfortunate surname of Dick had to take the indignity further by naming their daughter Ophelia.
Think about it…
Mark Lemongello pitched for Houston and/or Seattle, I believe. Might have played for San Diego as well.
IIRC, he pitched in the late seventies and early eighties.
There was a city councillor in Winnipeg (Canada) a few years back named Sandy Hyman. Everytime I saw her name I’d think, “That can’t be comfortable.”
My brother has a little boy and a little girl, I call them Denise and Denephew.
There is also an baseball player named Dick Pole, he is a coach somewhere in the big league now.
I had to get this in…
Back in the early eighties there was a basketball player for Memphis St. Name?
Baskerville Holmes
My favorite name of all time
I knew a boy name Mike Cuci (pronounced same as coochie). Last I heard, he was having his stepfather legally adopt him so he could have it changed.
On America’s Most Wanted the other day there was a guy named Socrates Aristotle Marr or something like that. Uhh… right.
I also know someone named Jimmy St John. Not weird, but it sounds pretty darn cool.