I knew a family with the surname “Breasted”.
And there are a lot of “Outhouses” around, though I believe they pronounce it “Oh-too-sey”.
And may I introduce you to the Cambodian (or is it Laotian) Phuc family?
My wife used to have a gyno named Dr. Katherine Box. The law firm she used to work for had a client named Iona Glascock.
Mentioned it before: I had a college classmate named Candy Hooker.
There’s well-known educator Harry Wong.
My wife used to have a gynecologist named Dr. Hyman.
I saw a person on Facebook with the surname Wrigley-Field.
I was in the Navy with both Richard Tate and Richard Lipp. And yes, a guy named Mike Hunt. It’s actually a common name.
How could I forget former NH Congressman Dick Swett?
There’s an editor at marvel that’s called:
Pornsak Pichetshote
Man, if that guy grew up in an English speaking country, he must not look back to his childhood with any bit of nostalgia. You cant even cut the name short to make it more palatable.
Oh come on - we’ve gotten this far without Dick Trickle?
I used to study martial arts with a pair of Vietnamese brothers named Dung and Dong.
They were two quick and vicious little bastards, so any grief they got was probably pretty short lived.
Everett Cox insurance.
Really? They make an insurance for that?
I know a guy with the last name Crapp. His nickname (which he tells everyone he meets) is “Crapper”. Might as well embrace it, I suppose.
Then there’s this former Eastern Illinois football player. I’m sure he pronounces it differently than it looks.
There was an Irish politician called Dick Spring. I’m imagine after the spring comes the trickle.
I knew a girl called I-Ching Wang. Poor lass. And there’s quite a few of them out there, apparently.
Went to Middle School/CCD with Michael Hunt, but he didn’t go by Michael.
As part of a job I had to ask a student what her instructor’s number was. She said “I don’t know what Dick Holder’s number is.” I thought it was some new kind of insult but later learned that the instructor was indeed named Richard Holder.
As I’ve mentioned in another thread: Richard Rash, Marilyn Monroe and Terry Towel.
Heh, it would be funny to cite his works as a reference -
“Fuck et all”
In school I had a classmate named Anita Mann. I had another named Jim Hsu (pronounced Shoe).
I worked in a hotel where the H/R corp lady was named Kishma Ashe.
I went to high school with both an Elizabeth Taylor and a Zachary Taylor (not related to each other).
A friend of mine actually read the quarterly report for one of his mutual fund investments the other day and found that one of the board members is named John R. Greed.
Probably the Jekyll/Hyde alter ego of Johnny B. Goode.