Did your gradeschool teachers have names which just begged to be mocked by kids? Names so bad, you had to wonder, even as a child, why such a person would choose schoolteaching as a career without getting a legal namechange first?
(This thread inspired by another one mentioning South Park’s “Ms. Choksondik”.)
I can just remember two offhand - Mr. Doorflinger (who was about 7 feet tall, blond, mustached, and extremely effeminate, not that there’s anything wrong with that, but it amused the younguns) and Mr. Udick (pronounced You Dick, which he certainly was.) Others?
I had a history teacher in high school named Mister Baader (BAY-der). Substitute Master for Mister and see what you get. He also looked just like Captain Kangaroo, but was so well-respected that nobody ever dared mock him.
Not so much mockable, but one of those names that matches the profession, my calculus teacher in high school was Sue Lucheon.
Well, they weren’t teachers,—but in high school our school doctor and nurse were named Dr. Hertz and Mrs. Paine. No foolin’—their door sign was in the yearbook every year.
We did have a teacher named Mrs. Greaser, poor dear.
At my college there was a professor from (?) Southeast Asia named Som Ghei. I never had him, but I heard the jokes: “Who’s your psych professor?” “Some guy . . .”
My freshman year I had a biology prof who was ordinarily pretty geeky and stiff: Rodney Cyrus. He made fun of himself once, though, when we were learning to identify various trees; he siad we had no excuse for forgetting the name of the balding cypress tree, as he rubbed his own bald head.