My friends grandpa’s name is Harry Sack. And she told this to our dry humor math teacher because he “looked down.” So she was like “GUESS WHAT MR. K! MY GRANDPA’S FIRST NAME IS HARRY! AND OUR LAST NAME IS SACK! HAARY SACK! AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!” He sent her out in the hall. I laughed.
I had a math teacher in high school whose name was Mrs. Dickensheets. She invited us to make jokes about her name (if we could come up with one she hadn’t heard, we’d get extra credit), and she went by Mrs. D. Good choice. She said once her in-laws were dead, she was going to talk her husband into changing it to “Sheets”. (Her husband’s name? HANS.)
Then there was that biologist we found in an earlier thread like this one-Richard Titball. Heh.
And yeah, the kids WILL find out his first name. Trust me.
My hubby used to go to church with Dick Upstill.
With all this Junior High humor about people’s names, there must have been somebody that had a teacher named Richard Hertz.
I used to work for Dick Broadcasting… My boss’s wife’s name? Carlotta. She went by “Lotta”… Very difficult not to laugh when introduced to Lotta Dick…
When I first started working, one of the typists in our office was named Debbie Duck. Her husband’s name was Donald. I can’t magine what possessed his parents to inflict that combination on him!
Professor Drydyk, who still is teaching philosophy at Carleton University in Ottawa, Ontario, must have had a fun time, I swear… I knew his daughter Julia, and BOY did she hate the name…
In other news, as I do in every “weird name” thread, I must post about Ottawa Realtor Anita Hoare… still in business after all those years… Nope, not an urban legend, either…
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It still makes me laugh. 
You’d think I was like 12 years old or something.
One of the English teachers in my high school had the last name of Bates. Of course, we all speculated that he was addressed as “Master” when he was a lad.
And when I worked in publishing one of the EAs from another imprint told me of an author they worked with named Dick Passwater. There’s just something wrong with a name like that…
I shouldn’t say anything, though. My wife’s name is very nearly the same as a famous woman telejournalist. Oh, the bon mots we hear! :rolleyes:
My Ford leasing agent’s name is Dick Waack.
(Pronounced ‘wok,’ but that’s really not all that funny.)
My sister had a client by the name of Trey.
His last name was dessert.
HA!
I have a friend who teaches elementary school whose last name is Passwaters. None of her students will ever know this: she uses her first name and is know as Miss Tiffany.
sorry; haven’t seen her in a few years. Tiffany is her sister: she’s Miss Ashley.
My elementary school music teacher was Miss Dake. “Mistake”.
For an accounting class in college, my professor’s name was Jack Kockentiet (Coke-in-tight). You wouldn’t believe how many people called him Cock’n’tit.
I can imagine what it was like for him in junior high.
First day of 10th grade German, our teacher started the class with, “Hi. My name is Bates. You can call me Herr Bates, or Master Bates.”
The pastor at my church is Dick Johnson.
Wooohooo! We just got our new phone books so I did a little browsing. My town is home to Peter Trynasty, Dick Goodhead and Etta Cox, Man Ho and Chelsea Lovejuice. Uh…Lovejuice?
Some interesting but more innocuous names are:
Holly Jolley (What was her maiden name? Berry?)
Someone with the last name of Jolly-Ruud who must have a split personality.
Celeste Different-Horse and Daisy Flower. (Wonder if they were at Woodstock?)
Barbara Doll (Oh boy. :rolleyes: )
Donald Trump (Oh boy. :rolleyes: )
In my old neighborhood there was a family named Everybodytalksabout. Everybody did talk about them last year when one of them was convicted for murder.
I remember seeing an article about a fellow named Clifford Olson, who had the misfortune of having a serial killer by that name come into prominence. His mom paid for his name change.