An economist interviewed from time to time on NPR is Hugh Johnson and I sometimes have to pay attention to my driving when I hear his name.
The last few years my wife had two Thai HS students that were sisters, their last name was Maeksomporn. Every 16 year old boys dream girlfriend!
Suddenly this year they have a more American last name…
There were two female golfers who changed their last name from Wonglukiet (sp?) to Song. Not to avoid making adolescent boys chuckle, but to be easier to pronounce, and obviously, spell.
At my last job, I worked indirectly with a woman whose name was Nancy Porn.
That’s not as bad as Lance Boyle http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1944556/.
Or Dick Johnson Dick Johnson (racing driver) - Wikipedia.
According to Google Translate, “Fuck”.
Must be a pronunciation thing.
When a new shopping centre opened up, its manager was Will Purchase.
I may have mentioned before that I used to work with a Dick Wood (I don’t know why he didn’t use Richard).
I came across someone with a last name of Apathy. When asked for his name, I wonder if he says “I don’t care”.
In some book of oddball baby names, I read that there was a child given the name, in the 19th century, “Phthisis”, which is a Greek term for “tuberculosis”.
That reminds me of an ancestor of mine: Blazius. It means “stutterer.”
There was a FB coach at UNC named Dick Crum
I once had business-related discussion with Hooters corporate. That was their rep’s last name.
I always remember Texas philanthropist Ima Hogg and a schoolmate Michael Hunt.
Perchance, any relation to Sherlock Ho, listed below in my ever-growing collection?
King Koc
Bich
Hung Wei Lo (this is my all-time favorite)
Dung Phuoc
Phuoc Yu
Wonderful Splendid Harris
Twat
Yur Majesty
Boogie
Precious
Ruru
Ruzzle
Libertine
So Hung
Jigger
Jonnifer
Sherlock Ho
Sin Li
King Nip
Yuk
Burgundy Bridges
Hung Duong
Mignon
Peanut
Ferrari
Jolly
I forgot, a customer where I used to bag groceries in a supermarket decades ago was named Sumner (nicknamed Sum) Pecker.
And a Chinese laundryman of that era was A Ho (total name).
I came across someone last night with the last name of Methmann, assuming it wasn’t a typo.
No one’s mentioned Dick Assman. Living quietly up in Canada, brought to the world’s attention by David Letterman! Read the Wikipedia article, a celebrity made because of his name!
I don’t really consider “Mignon” an odd name. It’s not super common, but I don’t think of it as weird. I guess because I have books by an author named Mignon G. Eberhart.
As long as his first name wasn’t “Buster.”
Oh, I see someone’s misspelled your name on your school ID, Nina. I’m sorry, but if you go down to the desk and get it fixed, I can register you into the IT system and you’ll be good to go. I’d do it with this one, but I need the card you’ll be using since I need to record the code from the magstripe.
stony silence
Seriously?
Ninja?
stony silence continues
I’m sorry. You should be good to go now.
Seriously?!
Someone here posted on an old thread that they knew a guy named “Fyle Cabonet.” This one still cracks me up. I mean, who does that?
I wonder what the parents of Arthur Purdy Stout (noted 20th century surgeon and pathologist) were thinking.
He seems to have been reasonably trim, however, not to mention a spiffy dresser (Arthur is on the left).