I’m reminded of my ex-wife’s gynecologist, Dr. Beavers.
I went to school with Candice Barr.
My daughter went to school with Shreeka Payne. Always made me wonder how that baby birth went.
I worked with Ronald McDonald.
Morgan Morgan. He looked like Billy Gibbons of ZZ Top fame.
There’s another here in Victoria, BC. I see his name on strata minutes. He’s on the strata council of his condo building.
A girl I went to high school with- Charity Muff.
A guy my dad went to high school with- Peter Rabbit.
I think there used to be a surfboard shaper around here named Dick Held.
:eek:
ETA- just remembered, twin boys a couple of years ahead of me in high school- Jingle and Jolly. Swear to God, you could check the yearbook…
Near me, there’s a Peter Pan auto dealer, and I’ve lived near a Raper auto dealer and a Faggart Buick.
Joe
There is at least one Dr. Bonebrake in Madison. A pulmonologist, fortunately.
There’s a Peter Pan BMW not too far from where I live now.
Where I used to live (southern-central CA) there was an auto dealer chain called Butts. Their license plate frames were a reliable source of amusement for the local schoolkids (and I admit I still chuckle when I see them). They’d have the city on the top and then “Butts” on the bottom, so, for example, “Monterey Butts.”
There’s also H. E. Butt, the grocery store guy (I noticed they call them “HEB” now–good call!)
I stopped lurking and registered with the sole intention of responding to this thread.
I went to school (elementary and junior high) with Pepsi Hooker.
Pepsi. Hooker.
Other kids almost felt too bad to even make fun of her. Almost.
I knew someone named Vinyl (pronounced Vin-yell), the result of what I can only assume was a tragic burst of misguided elegance on her mom’s part. I also knew an older man whose middle name was Sweetpea. Both of these are more odd than funny, which also applies to the people themselves.
A friend of mine had a grandmother whose legal name was Zany Alice.
I knew a girl called Titiporn; she went by Joy, which seemed fitting.
Mi Suk Whang
She was a candidate on an exam I was working at.
I assume she had no trouble meeting men.
One I can vouch to that others have mentioned already - my sister-in-law’s father is named Richard Head. Goes by Richard. Good guy.
My girlfriend worked with a girl whose first name was Chevron (pronounced Shuh-vrahn). I made sure to ask her regularly if she also worked with Shell or Mobil.
I don’t know which is the worse option: that they were born around Christmas, or that they weren’t.
I’ve met a Finnish woman named Anu Saukko. “Aukko” meaning “opening” or “hole” and…well, yeah. (Anu and Saukko by themselves are merely poor victims in this, being a common female first name and Finnish for “otter” respectively.) Additional hilarity can be gleaned from the (hopefully totally) imaginary male equivalent Per Saukko, which means basically the exact same thing.
I went to school with Chastity W., who was a total slut.
There’s always Gay Head.
Joe
Good move. Bring more sunshine.
I used to have a friend named Rose Bush, married name
I had a dr named Dr Bury ( think it rhymed with hurry)
there are commercials here for a urologist named Dr Cummings, and while I was checking the spelling of his name found a urologist named Dr Beers
oh, and we have a news caster with an unusual but I think pretty name: Bisi Onile Ere
I’ve posted this before, but it bears repeating:
The children of the Rev. Ralph Lyonel Tollemache, who lived in the 19th century in England, were probably given the most peculiar names in history. When he married his first wife, also a Tollemache, he adopted the double-barrelled surname Tollemache-Tollemache, which seems rather redundant. However, his children by his first wife had relatively ordinary given names (maybe his wife made sure of this). However, his Spanish second wife, Dora Cleopatra Maria Lorenza de Orellana y Revest, allowed him to call *their *children:
Daughter 1: Mabel Helmingham Ethel Huntingtower Beatrice Blazonberrie Evangeline Vise de Lou de Orellana Plantagenet Toedmag Saxon Tollemache-Tollemache
Daughter 2: Lyonesse Matilda Dora Ida Agnes Ernestine Curson Paulet Wilbraham Joyce Eugenie Bentley Saxonia Dysart Plantagenet Tollemache-Tollemache
Son 1: Lyulph Ydwallo Odin Nestor Egbert Lyonel Toedmag Hugh Erchenwyne Saxon Esa Cromwell Orma Nevill Dysart Plantagenet Tollemache-Tollemache (his initials spell LYONEL THE SECOND)
Daughter 3: Lyona Decima Veronica Esyth Undine Cyssa Hylda Rowena Viola Adela Thyra Ursula Ysabel Blanche Lelias Dysart Plantagenet Tollemache-Tollemache
Son 2: Leo Quintus Tollemache-Tollemache de Orellana Plantagenet Tollemache-Tollemache (he got off lightest, but still got rid of most of his name by deed poll, becoming plain Leo de Orellana Tollemache)
Daughter 4: Lyonella Fredegunda Cuthberga Ethelswytha Ideth Ysabel Grace Monica de Orellana Plantagenet Tollemache-Tollemache
Son 3: Leone Sextus Denys Oswulf Fraudati-filius Tollemache-Tollemache de Orellana Plantagenet Tollemache-Tollemache
Daughter 5: Lyonetta Edith Regina Valentine Myra Polwarth Avelina Philippa Violantha de Orellana Plantagenet Tollemache-Tollemache
Son 4: Lyonulph Cospatrick Bruce Berkeley Jermyn Tullibardine Petersham de Orellana Dysart Plantagenet Tollemache-Tollemache.