Oh, those Ho names. Here are a few:
Sherlock Ho
Peiyu Ho
Oh, those Ho names. Here are a few:
Sherlock Ho
Peiyu Ho
An economics textbook, Investment Under Uncertainty, is by A.K. Dixit and R.S. Pindyck. Yep, Dickshit and Pindick.
There is a woman on FB whose name is Zucchini Jones. It’s so wrong and so awesome.
I went to school with a Charles Brown and a Ronald McDonald and aJackie Fagg
I met a guy whose nick name is Bucky. His real name is Conway Twitty ( Last Name). Same night I met a guy whose last name is Richendollar.
There was a family by my cousins whose last name was Hitler. They were the nicest family.
How funny. I actually met Prof Pindyck at an economics conference and a colleague in all seriousness called him ‘Pindick’. He wasn’t amused…
Which year were you? I remember laughing at this name in the Cornell new student directory (aka ‘The Pig Book’)
Endemic (Cornell ALS, '93)
The lead singer of the Southern gospel group “The Blue Ridge Quartet” was Elmo Fagg. His name might have actually been “Juan Elmo Fagg.” Doesn’t strike me as particularly Spanish/Hispanic looking.
There were some pro wrestling brothers name “Faggart.” They changed their wrestling names to “Fargo.”
My husband and I were doing some banking arrangement and the representative was named Aneeda Knapp. Her parents were not native speakers of English so they get a pass on it. I offered the suggestion that she not marry anyone named “Mann.” She’d heard that before.
There’s a Portland newscaster named Anita Kissee. Unfortunately she pronounces it Kiss-AY. Still makes me giggle every time she comes on.
A few favorites that I’ve run into at work:
Richard Ryder
Richard Small
Anul Ramm
Bunny Fallis (Yes, his real first name)
And the BEST name I’ve ever seen!
Strike Force Thao
Strike Force was this tiny Asian dude that got arrested for some pathetic weapons charge. My partner and I decided he completely missed his calling. He should have gone into the military. Sergeant Strike Force? Corporal Strike Force? General? Rank never would have mattered; they all sound awesome with a name like that!
I hope you guys weren’t asking for a loan … ![]()
Ha Ha. No, we were opening an account, or a safety deposit box or some such mundane thing. I’m sure we could have thought of a whole lot of last names she didn’t want.
Physicists Ralph Alpher and George Gamow cowrote an important paper on cosmogony, and then contrived to have the name of colleague Hans Bethe added as co-author (apparently without his knowledge) so that it could be known as the “Alpher-Bethe-Gamow” theory.
Unfortunate, I dunno, but some magazine once said that the actor Zak Orth sounded like some kind of space alien. And the more I think about it, that magazine was right.
I AM ZAK ORTH. I COME IN PEACE. TAKE ME TO YOUR LEADER.
Is the surname “Cockburn” pronounced the way I think it is?
It’s pronounced “Coburn.”
Then there’s the infamous Mr. Weiwei:
'There is a moderately well-known mathematician who signs his papers “A. Dikshit”.
Sheesh, and I always felt bad for the Buttland sisters I went to jr high and high school with. Not so much now
I’m working on a list of fabulous first names from our client database. I’m really excited to see both Cletis and Cletus. Hooray for rural America!
Holy Crap, this reminds me, I knew a Private Hare and Specialist Raper in the army,
how did I miss this the first time?