My last name, when directly translated to English, is “Summer beach”.
Manduck, imagine you’re thpeaking with a lithp…
tlw, it’s not Yanna… think Jan Ah Taylor.
I answered a phone call from a lady named Sally Kelly last week. Of course, in Australia those names rhyme, so it sounds rather mildly amusing. I thought it was a funny little name, and noted it to mention the next time one of these threads popped up. This concludes my story.
Well, I know a guy named Dale Wood, which always seemed kind of geographical to me.
There is also someone is this town whose last name is Cheekyass. Honestly.
this takes the cake.
I do know a family with an absolutely stunning little girl–mom’s white, dad’s black, and this child is that perfect shade of tawny toasted brown.
Their last name = Brown
Daughter’s name = Golden!
Hey, on anyone else it’d be silly but she pulls it off with style.
We have a guy in the network group called Lan Phan.
Lan Phan, the network man.
This drives me nuts periodically.
MANDUCK—I think ‘Heythaler’ sounds like a lisping version of ‘Hey sailor.’
One of the local high schools graduated a girl with the last name, ‘Yu,’ and included the names of the proud parents. Her father’s name was, of course, ‘Phuc.’ [It’s pronounced as if it was spelled, ‘Puc,’ but hey, that’s close enough for me.]
But Ethel wouldn’t make Heythaler any funnier. Apparently we’re still missing something.
And I assume PUsey is pronounced pyoo’-see, (like Busey) which is why that one took me a while too.
After the first three posts, I felt sufficiently whooshed.
You’re not alone, Max. I didn’t get them either. I was sitting here saying, “Janna Taylor. JanNA TAYlor,” and the like trying to figure it out.
Lana Cain & her sister-in-law Candy.
I worked for an appraisal firm & we encountered lots of odd names. My favorite was always the last name Flock Of Birds. I realize this is Native American & I should be sensitive & all that, but it just give me the giggles to imagine: “Table for two, Mr. & Mrs. Flock of Birds…”
Janna Taylor just busted me up when I first read it. It’s got that quaint twang at the end… Hey y’all, I’m goin’ to the heineycologist to get my jennatalier checked out.
I too went to school with a Candy Barr as well as a Constance Cummings.
My favorite though is still Henauder Titzoff.
I remember seeing a billboard to re-elect sheriff Dick Mecum.
My friend James Bright married a girl named Crystal.
There was a guy in my college named Gowei Yu (sp?)
The running gag was “Come here, Gowei! Come here, Gowei!”
Some of the funny names I’ve seen come through my office are:
LaTreena (honestly–can you imagine?)
And one woman was named Clytemnestra Lysistrata (whatever her last name was). Her parents must have been real misogynists!
I Knew someone that knew someone with the last name of Pusey as well. She was a girl and her first name was ‘Matty’.
What kind of crack her parents were smoking we’ll never know
I think I’ve posted this before, but there’s a guy in Calgary named Dick Hehr. His son’s name is Kent Hehr. I’ve also seen a local ad for a real estate agent named Anita Dyck.
There’s a client in our files at work named Thu My Dang (well, he’s not in the files - just his paperwork is). This name always seems vaguely dirty to me.
Pusey crack of course
I once saw a patient, a kid, whose first name was “Sir”.
I went to high school with Harry Butts III. Apparently his father thought if the name was good enough for him, his son could have it too. His younger brother Richard was called Cigarette in grade school and that evolved into Roach by the time he was in high school. They were both well liked in school so they didn’t get to much razzing about their names.
I went to school with twins named Kay & Gay Cox.
I once found the name Richard Head in the phonebook, but his phone number had been changed to an unlisted one.
Oh man, I really can’t hold a candle to most of these, but let me try anyway.
My family, a few aunts or uncles over (or back or reverse or topwise…somewhere over there) has the last name of Greene.
Children that followed:
Holly, Forrest, Heather, Laurel, and Lily.