As for apt surnames, there was Lord Brain, the neurologist.
There used to be (perhaps still is) a Dr. Foote, Podiatrist in Peterborough, ON
Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, has a Dr. Payne: OB/GYN. You’ll want that epidural.
Is that a Car Talk thing? I always thought of those as Spike Jones style jokes.
I can’t believe with all the Learned and Smurt Dopers here that I actually am the first to KNOW and Post this.
Ohhh, there goes the Third Horseman of the Apocalypse now. Huh…that explains everything…
Since Shirley got aptronym, I’ll point out that Dewey, Cheatem and Howe go back at least to the Three Stooges.
The Art of Negotiation by Amatalia Watt-Amaghanadu
Judging Dairy Cows by Oliver Faltz
How to Make Your Own by Bruce Ailes
I knew that sounded familiar. We’ve actually got a Doper called aptronym. :smack:
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
What do I win?
A copy of “Jokes from Airplane”, by Don’t Call Me Shirley Ujest.
Examining Genitalia by Isaac Hunt.
My favorite real life ones are the old TV Earthquake specialist named Waverly Persons, and a long time ago on the Daily show then showed an interview with a Cryogenic sperm expert named Dick Seed. I remeber Jon Stewart(may have been his early days on the program) just cracking up for 15 seconds.
The Freakonomics blog on the New York Times website had a contest [del]last year[/del] two years ago for the best aptonym (which is what they call what you’re referring to as an aptronym, and I like the word without the r). The winner was a fact checker for Good magazine named Paige Worthy.
Here in Austin, the most prominent urologist is a guy named…
Well, check here, because you wouldn’t believe me if I just told you:
http://www.urologyteam.com/our-doctors/dr-richard-chopp.htm
Is “Dick Chopp” a guy you’d want handling your genitalia? Didn’t think so.
If you look further, he has a partner named Hitt.
Carl Kasell is unavailable - may I suggest MY voice on your home answering machine?
Or euonym.