I knew a poor soul whose parents named him Rhett Butler, and he had the air of someone who has received a lot of shit in his life re: his name.
I also knew a guy by the name of Brian Cox, who had a brother named Harry…
I’ve also known a September and an December.
No double entendre here, but Beuford Pusser is a name to have. There was a movie aboiut him many years ago.
While cataloging books in a library once, I saw one by a retired army officer who wrote books on Arab military history. His name was Mahmud Shit Khattab. To be fair, his middle name was pronounced “Sheet” and should have been spelled Shith, which is the Arabic form of Seth. But the Egyptian dialect form spelled it Shit. I felt really bad about entering a person’s name in the catalog like that, so I broke the Library of Congress transliteration rules and spelled it “Shet”.
So far in this thread, I like Hung Wei Lo and Fu Kin Hung the best. If those weren’t real, someone would have had to invent them! LOL
In southeastern Oklahoma there is a middle school named after a former principal, Mrs. Kidd.
Unfortunately, they named the school after her by FULL name…
the Pansey Kidd Middle School.
I kidd you not.
Corr
i was working at a university this summer, and going through a list of international students’ names, I came across a Korean guy named…
Lik Kok
There was also an Italian man named…
Tony Ferroni
And I know a man named…
Dick Handler
Thank god for my parents and their boring choices…
My wife attended high school (Baldwin FL) with a girl whose name was Tiki Palfalfa (sounds just like I’ve spelled it).
Odd…
Well, I found this. I don’t know if it is exactly what you’re looking for, though…
I been watching TV Ontario’s series Battleships and in the credits in large letters Peter Butt.
I was looking through the list of employees several years ago and ran across “Weed, Richard”. When I started chuckling about it, I was informed that this older gentleman went by “Dick”, and brooked no shit about his name!
I’ve got a couple. First, there is the guy I used to work with, Larry Lawrence. I always wanted to call him “Larry Larry”. The other one is somewhat priceless. I work for an Israeli company, and while some of the guys have strange names, they’re not too bad…except for Nimrod. Yes, this guy’s first name is actually Nimrod. I’ve been told it doesn’t have the same meaning in Hebrew, and that it’s supposed to rhyme with “Road”, but it’s still a pretty bad name to have.
Maybe not the worst, but certainly memorable: I once knew a man called Atomic Wong. If you think that’s funny, wait till you meet his brother Nucleus…
I am not kidding! It’s like working with the Wonder Twins.
How about the former Chicago White Sox outfielder,
Rusty Kuntz ?
I work with a Sharon Peters.
In my hometown healthcare center there are two physicians; the gynecologist is Dr. Love, and the ocologist is Dr Die. Thank goodness I haven’t needed the services of either one of them.
I was also in school with a Richie Cunningham during the Happy Days craze. He caught his fair share of razzing but nothing compared to another fellow in class… Tim Penis (properly pronounced “pen-is”, not 'peen-is"). That poor kid, I think the instructors mispronounced his last name on purpose.
There’s a couple who live one town north of here named Harry and Rosie Butte.
I know I’ll think of more…give me a sec…
Just wanted to note that I would date a chick named Groovy Nipples. Just for that.
One of the customers where i work has recently changed his name to…
Cloud Of Unknowing
Clearly the guy is a grade 1 moron. His Credit Card says Cloud O. Unknowing.
He is our office Dickhead of the Month.
I knew a Larry Lawrence too. We called him Widdle Wawwy Wawwence.
Also know a Harold (Harry) & Dorkus Beaver.
(I hesitate to post this because they’re the most wonderful couple.)
One of our university deans was named Richard Dangle, and insisted on the name ‘Dick’. :rolleyes:
One of my friends in high school had a brother named Minh. We made sure to be very careful how we greeted him after the unfortunate incident of one of us yelling across the hall “Hi Minh!”
We had a job candidate recently whose name totally cracked me up… I’ll have to look around for the paperwork to jog my memory.
-BK
I went to school with a Mike Hunt, as well as a poor soul whose name was Phuc Ngo. Though I don’t remember how the first name was pronounced (I know it WASN’T like “f-u-c-k”) I remember the long pause before his name was called at our graduation ceremony! We had a math teacher in the same school named Virginia Dick.
True names I’ve encountered in my work: Barry Derryberry, Constance Beaver, Sheri (pronounced Cherry) Love (!), and----this is an awful thing to do to a kid—Panda Baird.
My mother works in a hospital and (oops–breaking confidentiality) once told me that a MAN was staying there and his name was Pastel Puffenberger. Hate to think of the nicknames possible!