Meet PC Rob Banks of the Avon and Somerset Police force.
(I hope Im not getting in too late with this one.)
My mother had friends named Melbadell, Viuka (pronounced vie-YOU-ka), and Belice. They were all central West Virginia country gals.
For anyone wondering, he shows up at 13:42 in the video.
shortest: A Ho
Long: Thanadech Thanaworrakan ((in a movie crew credit roll)
Not an untypical Thai-style name. I see names like that all the time, and the wife’s maiden name has that one beat. Usually, Thai names don’t rate a mention in threads like these unless it’s the common Thai woman’s name Porn, which is actually pronounced exactly like “pawn.”
I had a boss with the last name Graham. He married a woman named Candace (maybe Candice). She was from then on Candy Graham.
If you play the video inline, it should start right around then at the point where his name comes on screen. But if you follow the link at the top left of the video that goes to the video on YouTube, it starts at the beginning because the board removes the “start playing at X time” part of the link.
Watching the Packers game causes me to add the name Equanimeous Tristan Imhotep J. St. Brown to this thread. Along with his brothers Amon-Ra Julian Heru J. St. Brown and Osiris Adrian Amon-Ra J. St. Brown.
Good to know. I opened it in a different browser window and thus was not aware.
Meanwhile, on the subject of the thread, I once briefly worked with a woman whose first name was Innocent, and whose last name could also be an English word. And I was in the same office for a time with somebody with the unfortunate last name of Butts.
Erie, PA, has a Peter Hardner.
Years ago the family business was Peter Hardner & Sons. The firm, if you will, constructed building frames of steel. The sign painted prominently on the firm’s building was:
Peter Hardner & Sons, Erections.
Way back I worked with a guy named Randy Peters, which a brit friend found hilarious.
I can only imagine the British reaction to the Hall-of-Fame pitcher Randy Johnson, known (because he’s about 6-feet-nine-inches tall) as the Big Unit.
Not as weird, but archetypally WASP was a friend-of-a-friend named Treadwell Rummell III. (Apologies, TR, if I’m misspelling that.)
I know a Kapowski and Eliminowski. I imagine them as a Russian hit team.
See my post above.
I saw this one on an inmate roster this morning:
Cherokee Fight
Just ran across Johnjoe McFadden, which is right up there with Joey Jo-Jo Junior Shabadoo.
“Johnjoe McFadden” reminded me of Marjoe Gortner, one-time child evangelist; his name (which is actually one of his middle names) is a portmanteau of “Mary” and “Joseph.”
A football player just selected in the NFL draft is named Divine Deablo.
That’s a fabulous name!