# Unintentionally evil (if perhaps morbidly funny) things you've seen **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [May 15, 2013, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unintentionally-evil-if-perhaps-morbidly-funny-things-youve-seen/658439 "2013-05-15T18:44:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Dogzilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@Dogzilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dogzilla)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2013, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unintentionally-evil-if-perhaps-morbidly-funny-things-youve-seen/658439/41 "2013-05-16T19:32:48Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > My college synthesizer teacher was Mr. Noyse. I had a gynecologist in college whose name was Dr. Fingar. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2013, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unintentionally-evil-if-perhaps-morbidly-funny-things-youve-seen/658439/42 "2013-05-16T19:33:34Z")
> [@Slypork](#): > > My wife’s friend used to go to [this](http://www.healthgrades.com/physician/dr-john-bush-34v8b) gynecologist. Seriously, could he have found a better profession? As in running a wood chipper? ---
**Author:** ![Dogzilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@Dogzilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dogzilla)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2013, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unintentionally-evil-if-perhaps-morbidly-funny-things-youve-seen/658439/43 "2013-05-16T19:34:56Z")
Also, there’s an intersection in town that makes me giggle every time I see it. The street sign showing the name of the street is “Il destinado” (The destination). The sign just below it reads “Dead End.” 😃 ---
**Author:** ![lisacurl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/41988e/32.png) [@lisacurl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lisacurl)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2013, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unintentionally-evil-if-perhaps-morbidly-funny-things-youve-seen/658439/44 "2013-05-16T19:46:43Z")
> [@AaronX](#): > > An advertisement for Helen Keller sunglasses: > [https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-uGJA20ZTgXo/UN0hvklTrhI/AAAAAAABHCw/SCBfLpkgxsk/s800/IMG\_0466.JPG](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-uGJA20ZTgXo/UN0hvklTrhI/AAAAAAABHCw/SCBfLpkgxsk/s800/IMG_0466.JPG) > > This isn’t evil, but I’m posting it here because it’s too small to have a thread of its own: > I can’t believe they named the CPR doll Resusci Anne and not Resusci Kate!!! I wonder if that’s because the face of the CPR doll is based on the death mask of [L’Inconnue de la Seine](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L'Inconnue_de_la_Seine), which approximately contains the sound of the English name “Anne.” ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2013, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unintentionally-evil-if-perhaps-morbidly-funny-things-youve-seen/658439/45 "2013-05-16T20:01:29Z")
When I did EMT training, they pronounced it Resuci-_Annie_, though it never occurred to me to wonder why! Another one in the medical realm, an old high school friend’s mom was a nurse; before she married my friend’s dad, her last name was Paine. Nurse Paine is almost as bad as Nurse Ratched. (Aw. Look what I found when I googled to make sure I was spelling Ratched correctly: [‘Cuckoo’s Nest’ actress says her Nurse Ratched character is too cruel for her to watch anymore](http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2012/10/04/cuckoo-nest-actress-says-her-nurse-ratched-character-is-too-cruel-for-her-to/)) ☹ ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2013, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unintentionally-evil-if-perhaps-morbidly-funny-things-youve-seen/658439/46 "2013-05-16T20:06:41Z")
> [@Ellen\_Cherry](#): > > Another one in the medical realm, an old high school friend’s mom was a nurse; before she married my friend’s dad, her last name was Paine. Nurse Paine is almost as bad as Nurse Ratched. There’s a store here called Payne Furniture. I’m not really inspired to shop there. ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2013, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unintentionally-evil-if-perhaps-morbidly-funny-things-youve-seen/658439/47 "2013-05-16T20:08:17Z")
> [@Aspidistra](#): > > In a slightly different vein… > > A kids book (in rhyme) that we own features, at one point, a bunch of kids going off to do garden work for their mother. > > _Off they went, with tools on shoulders > Bob, the rake, and Jill, the hoe_ > > We think Bob the Rake and Jill the Ho sound like a pretty good match for each other. First time through I read it as Bob, the raker, and, Jill, the hoer. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2013, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unintentionally-evil-if-perhaps-morbidly-funny-things-youve-seen/658439/48 "2013-05-16T20:21:55Z")
> [@Zsofia](#): > > Oh, come on. That’s how you know it’s good barbecue. It might be _good_ barbecue, but the way you know it’s _great_ barbecue is if the place looks like it should have been condemned five years ago and you know without being told that the woman who takes your order has to pass under a metal detector to visit her next-of-kin. ---
**Author:** ![miss\_elizabeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/838e76/32.png) [@miss\_elizabeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/miss_elizabeth)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2013, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unintentionally-evil-if-perhaps-morbidly-funny-things-youve-seen/658439/49 "2013-05-16T20:27:38Z")
> [@KRC](#): > > My mother pointed to a Japanese restaurant called \*\*Nagasaki \*\*Steakhouse. I didn’t want to eat there. It’s just a city in Japan though. I mean, I know we nuked it, but so? ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2013, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unintentionally-evil-if-perhaps-morbidly-funny-things-youve-seen/658439/50 "2013-05-16T20:27:55Z")
[QUOTE=Ellen Cherry] (Aw. Look what I found when I googled to make sure I was spelling Ratched correctly: [‘Cuckoo’s Nest’ actress says her Nurse Ratched character is too cruel for her to watch anymore](http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2012/10/04/cuckoo-nest-actress-says-her-nurse-ratched-character-is-too-cruel-for-her-to/)) ☹ [/QUOTE] The character she played on _Shameless_ last year was a septugenarian jailbird who made Nurse Ratched look like Ma Ingalls. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2013, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unintentionally-evil-if-perhaps-morbidly-funny-things-youve-seen/658439/51 "2013-05-16T20:33:20Z")
She sang “Oh! Mr Porter” (composed for her by George Le Brunn), “A Little of What You Fancy”[3] and “She Sits Among the Cabbages and Peas”,[95] which she retitled “I Sits Amongst the Cabbages and Leeks” after some protest. [Marie Lloyd.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Lloyd) ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2013, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unintentionally-evil-if-perhaps-morbidly-funny-things-youve-seen/658439/52 "2013-05-16T20:34:45Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > It might be _good_ barbecue, but the way you know it’s _great_ barbecue is if the place looks like it should have been condemned five years ago and you know without being told that the woman who takes your order has to pass under a metal detector to visit her next-of-kin. Well, the BEST barbecue you’ll never get to eat because they’re never open when you go there and you can’t figure out how to actually get there anyway. You might see it from the main road but you can’t figure it out from there. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2013, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unintentionally-evil-if-perhaps-morbidly-funny-things-youve-seen/658439/53 "2013-05-16T20:39:03Z")
From today’s headlines: [A Dick Trickle ends with a bloody discharge](http://www.wistv.com/story/22273981/nascar-legend-dick-trickle-dead-from-self-inflicted-gunshot-wound-sheriff-says) ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2013, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unintentionally-evil-if-perhaps-morbidly-funny-things-youve-seen/658439/54 "2013-05-16T20:39:46Z")
> [@Ellen\_Cherry](#): > > (Aw. Look what I found when I googled to make sure I was spelling Ratched correctly: [‘Cuckoo’s Nest’ actress says her Nurse Ratched character is too cruel for her to watch anymore](http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2012/10/04/cuckoo-nest-actress-says-her-nurse-ratched-character-is-too-cruel-for-her-to/)) ☹ [Kai Winn](http://www.littlereview.com/goddesslouise/art/miscds9/starkai1.jpg)! ---
**Author:** ![Kimballkid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b5a626/32.png) [@Kimballkid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimballkid)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2013, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unintentionally-evil-if-perhaps-morbidly-funny-things-youve-seen/658439/55 "2013-05-16T20:44:11Z")
> [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](#): > > I often see restaurant signs with smiling cartoon versions of the very animals whose flesh they’re serving up. Which makes [this](http://www.dog-n-suds.com/) one kind of confusing. ---
**Author:** ![zoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zoid/32/336_2.png) [@zoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoid)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2013, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unintentionally-evil-if-perhaps-morbidly-funny-things-youve-seen/658439/56 "2013-05-16T20:51:50Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > It might be _good_ barbecue, but the way you know it’s _great_ barbecue is if the place looks like it should have been condemned five years ago and you know without being told that the woman who takes your order has to pass under a metal detector to visit her next-of-kin. Great barbecue is handed to you through a [bulletproof lazy susan](http://www.google.com/imgres?newwindow=1&sa=X&tbm=isch&tbnid=qz9k-SWpQ9SouM:&imgrefurl=http://noshameadventures.blogspot.com/2012/06/chicago-uncle-johns-barbecue.html&docid=dq5PP0dJ-k-FlM&imgurl=http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-yaVVAG197hU/T8oiax90wyI/AAAAAAAAHVc/QTWvuJMD27A/s1600/IMG_20120517_201111.jpg&w=1600&h=1200&ei=i0aVUer9Eeq-0AGS54CYBg&zoom=1&biw=1366&bih=577&iact=rc&dur=372&page=1&tbnh=132&tbnw=166&start=0&ndsp=29&ved=1t:429,r:4,s:0,i:95&tx=82&ty=56): ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2013, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unintentionally-evil-if-perhaps-morbidly-funny-things-youve-seen/658439/57 "2013-05-16T20:58:31Z")
[This](http://www.syncweekly.com/news/2010/jun/29/legend-shack/) is what a great barbecue joint looks like. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2013, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unintentionally-evil-if-perhaps-morbidly-funny-things-youve-seen/658439/58 "2013-05-16T21:03:58Z")
> [@Slypork](#): > > My wife’s friend used to go to [this](http://www.healthgrades.com/physician/dr-john-bush-34v8b) gynecologist. Seriously, could he have found a better profession? I lived in Fort Lee, NJ at one time, and I remember seeing a sign: SEYMOUR KUNTZ Gynecologist I’m sure his profession came first, followed by a name change. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2013, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unintentionally-evil-if-perhaps-morbidly-funny-things-youve-seen/658439/59 "2013-05-16T21:09:32Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > I lived in Fort Lee, NJ at one time, and I remember seeing a sign: > > SEYMOUR KUNTZ > Gynecologist > > I’m sure his profession came first, followed by a name change. I’ll warrant that \*his \*Mother didn’t go about saying, “My Son, the Doctor!” ---
**Author:** ![HoneyBadgerDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/honeybadgerdc/32/1033_2.png) [@HoneyBadgerDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HoneyBadgerDC)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2013, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unintentionally-evil-if-perhaps-morbidly-funny-things-youve-seen/658439/60 "2013-05-16T21:11:36Z")
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