Swear words used as names

There’s an identical entry in the Missoula, MT phone book (actually, the number is in Thompson Falls, which is a couple of hours away from here). I swear to God; I’m looking at it as we speak.

Hmmmm, don’t know about the Dick and Petrus, but “Kok” is the surname of the president of my native Holland.
(still doing my utmost to dispel this “country of naughtiness” myth here) :slight_smile:

No, but let’s give a hand to KneadToKnow, himself, anyway.

Actually, I redacted it. I think it was too long to be covered under fair use, and all the info is right at the link.

Oh, well. You could have at least left the part pertinant to jinty’s question. :slight_smile:

We can’t forget racecar driver DIck Trickle.

Paragraph 12 of the Swedish name laws outlaws amongst other things:

Surnames that are constructed, spelled or pronounced in such a way that they are inapropriate in this country.

Given names and surnames that can be considered offensive, or can be assumed to cause difficulty to the person so named.

Surnames that can be easily confused with for example railway stations or postoffices.

If you have not officially and appropriatly named your child within 3 months, you can be fined.

He is a consumer affairs expert, seen at http://www.bendover.com/default.asp. Lots of good info.

I agree that Dick Trickle is a pretty strange name. What were his parents thinking?!?!?!

Sometimes, my kids think their first name is “God dammit”…

I once met a man by the name of Studley, whose parents had been foolish (or unthinking) enough to name him Roderick. Way too cumbersome, of course, so he went by “Rod.” I’ve always imagined him walking into a group of people and introducing himself: “Hi, I’m Rod Studley.” and having people roll their eyes and say “Yeah, right.” He was a really nice, unobnoxious type, too, poor guy. No idea if he lived up to his name.

Of course, the parents of nineteenth century philanthropist Ima Hogg must simply have been sadists.

I had a fellow student named Dick Hohl, an accountant named Victor Crapp, and customers with the surnames Outhouse and Brabender (a woman, natch).

And then there were Shit Y. Yeung (1911-1994) of San Francisco, and Damn Frazier (1977-2000) of Camden, NJ.

Hey, my dad flew under him…

no, really…

not on topic at all really but apparently Irish talkshow host, Gay (as in Gabriel) Byrne was touring the United States in the 60s (i think it was the 60s) and his PR guy took him aside and said that perhaps going around calling himself Gay would not go down too well. The PR guy suggested they call him by his middle name. His middle name is Mary.

Mogi

BTW i know a girl called Hedda Dick.

Here in the tiny little city of Cumberland, MD. The Chief of Police bears the actual last name of Dick, making him, yes, Police Chief Dick. On a related note, funny, but not dirty, I went to school with a girl by the last name of Peper. It was pronounced just like the spice. Her father was the minister of the local Baptist church, and had a doctorate in theology. This made him, I kid you not, Dr. Peper. hehehe.

Twentieth century (1882-1975). Ima was named for the heroine of a Civil War poem written by her uncle. Her father was governor of Texas. And no, folks, she did not have a sister named “Ura”.

Shoulda been in the Walla Walla directory.

Topkok is a common Eskimo name. I went to school with Herb Topkok and later worked with his uncle Cliff Topkok, who after a few beers loved to do a little dance and gleefully shout “I’m the best cuz I’m the TOP COCK!”

I went to high school with Anne Dick (don’t know her dad’s name), and Dawn Glasscock (always thought that sounded painful!). Not to mention, in the not dirty but still funny category, Fawn Deer (and they tell me her dad was called Buck, though I don’t know).

And my brother is named Richard Johnson, but he’s always gone by Rick, and I don’t remember anyone ever making jokes referring to “Dick” (for that matter, I never heard “johnson” used to mean that until I was in my late 20’s).

One more I have to mention (again, not dirty but still funny): I used to work at a bank that had a customer named Donna Duck.

City Gent, Dikshit is a legitimate Indian surname (sometimes spelled Dixit). There is a famous Bollywood actress by the name of Madhuri Dixit, and an Indian politician named Sheila Dikshit.

I admit I did a double-take the first time I saw a paper written by Brazilian geologist ** Reinhardt A. (R.A.) Fuck** (I think he pronounces it “fyook”). And then there was that lawyer named Robert P. Dickover, and a fellow dentist patient whose name was Silke Busch.

There is a former politician in my town named Dick Woods. He was a regular customer of the diner where I used to cook. Being a Richard myself (though I go by Rik) I’ve noted that his (and my parent’s) generation is pretty much the last in the USA to use the nickname “Dick” for “Richard”.

Back in junior high school, before I started calling myself “Rik”, I really hated being named Richard.

“Hey, dick!”

“Shut up!”

“It’s just short for Richard!”

“Shut up!”

Some of the funniest names can be found on the children of immigrants. Their parents come to the USA and want to give their children American-sounding names. And unfortunately, they’re completely unaware of the consequences. And so the former local community college President was an Asian man named… Woody Ahn.

I know a girl named Randi Bachelor.