# You've GOT to be shitting me!! Names.
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-got-to-be-shitting-me-names/434361
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [January 21, 2008, 11:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-got-to-be-shitting-me-names/434361 "2008-01-21T11:20:32Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Mahna\_Mahna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahna_Mahna)
#### Post date: [January 22, 2008, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-got-to-be-shitting-me-names/434361/41 "2008-01-22T03:46:23Z")
[QUOTE=meek]
Dr. Killem
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Dr. Killem wouldn’t happen to practice with Dr. De’ath, would he? 🙂
(and yes, there is indeed at least one Dr. De’ath out there, who was among my parents graduating class in med school)
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### Author:  [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)
#### Post date: [January 22, 2008, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-got-to-be-shitting-me-names/434361/42 "2008-01-22T03:56:05Z")
I used to work for a guy named Ronald McDonald. He would be about 70 now; much older than the hamburger shill-critter.
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### Author:  [@Cazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cazzle)
#### Post date: [January 22, 2008, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-got-to-be-shitting-me-names/434361/43 "2008-01-22T03:56:57Z")
I had a customer called Fairley Smart. Could’ve been worse, depending on her choice of husband.
I’m descended from Fanny Leak.
There’s an Esme May May in a nearby town. I know another Esme May, but I don’t know the second one’s middle name.
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### Author:  [@Pixilated](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pixilated)
#### Post date: [January 22, 2008, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-got-to-be-shitting-me-names/434361/44 "2008-01-22T04:00:32Z")
guilty of working in a call center as well… off the top of my head, Sunshine E. Day. Valid credit report even.
how about a boy named Audrey - but was pronounced Andre? Poor folks didnt know how to spell the name and guessed - or so said “Andre”
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### Author:  [@groo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/groo)
#### Post date: [January 22, 2008, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-got-to-be-shitting-me-names/434361/45 "2008-01-22T04:43:48Z")
I work with Cao Dung.
I attended a lecture in college given by Richard Hertz.
[ot]
I knew a guy named Kent Clark. We called him Man Super.
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### Author:  [@Kayeby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kayeby)
#### Post date: [January 22, 2008, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-got-to-be-shitting-me-names/434361/46 "2008-01-22T04:52:07Z")
A friend of a friend’s first name is Lady and her middle name is Diana. Apparently this is deliberate, as her mother is (or was?) a big admirer. Lady’s sister is named Daisy but no word on whether her middle name is Duck.
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### Author:  [@TheLoadedDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheLoadedDog)
#### Post date: [January 22, 2008, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-got-to-be-shitting-me-names/434361/47 "2008-01-22T05:03:13Z")
My father’s first mother-in-law was born in 1898. To a very royalist family.
Clerk: Surname?
M-i-L: Forster
Clerk: Initials?
M-i-L (proudly): Q Veeee!!!
Clerk (under his breath to my dad): It’s _not_, is it?
Dad: Yup. It is.
Queen Victoria remained very proud of her name until she died in her nineties. Our Queen Victoria, that is. I don’t think she ever noticed everybody taking the mick.
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### Author:  [@Zabali\_Clawbane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zabali_Clawbane)
#### Post date: [January 22, 2008, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-got-to-be-shitting-me-names/434361/48 "2008-01-22T05:10:14Z")
[QUOTE=don’t ask]
Z for D
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Er, I read it as “de BRA” you know, woman’s undergarment? 😕 ETA: Nevermind, now that I remember how others say zebra, and know what you call a crosswalk. :o
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### Author:  [@Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oslo_Ostragoth)
#### Post date: [January 22, 2008, 8:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-got-to-be-shitting-me-names/434361/49 "2008-01-22T08:16:24Z")
From a friend: **Shaholorondra DiAquinita Jones**.
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### Author:  [@missred](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/missred)
#### Post date: [January 22, 2008, 9:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-got-to-be-shitting-me-names/434361/50 "2008-01-22T09:44:03Z")
My orthodontist growing up was Dr. Hollar.
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### Author:  [@Avarie537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Avarie537)
#### Post date: [January 22, 2008, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-got-to-be-shitting-me-names/434361/51 "2008-01-22T14:17:07Z")
[QUOTE=GingerOfTheNorth]
There is a football player (NY Giants) whose first name is Plaxico Burress. What the fuck?
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I happened to read Jimmy Carter’s childhood memoirs over the Christmas holidays, and he mentioned a prominent family in southeastern Georgia whose last name was Plexico. So I would guess that it’s a family name.
But we still call him Plexiglass in our house. 😃
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### Author:  [@Gorgon\_Heap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorgon_Heap)
#### Post date: [January 22, 2008, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-got-to-be-shitting-me-names/434361/52 "2008-01-22T14:35:28Z")
_Originally posted by **groo** _
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> I knew a guy named Kent Clark. We called him Man Super.
Holy living crap! I almost threw up and passed out from laughter!!!
Anyways, at a photo shoot at a big local event a few months ago I saw a middle-aged gent walk past with a nametag stating he is **Jack Plunder**. Whata splendid pirate name!!
ALso, something I’ve laughed at for many years now, one of my best friends goes to a dentist named **Niel Dicker**.
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### Author:  [@atomicbadgerrace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/atomicbadgerrace)
#### Post date: [January 22, 2008, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-got-to-be-shitting-me-names/434361/53 "2008-01-22T14:47:14Z")
I once had the pleasure of verifying the photo ID for the a very nice woman named Prostitutia.
She seemed fun enough, so yes, we asked why.
Her mother thought it “sounded pretty.”
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### Author:  [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)
#### Post date: [January 22, 2008, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-got-to-be-shitting-me-names/434361/54 "2008-01-22T14:53:27Z")
On the occasion of her second confinement, Mrs M was attended by a charming nurse whose name-badge read “Cruella”. And she said “Yes, really,” when she saw me looking at it. 😃
My previous dentist was Dr Screech. You can’t make this stuff up!
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### Author:  [@Pixilated](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pixilated)
#### Post date: [January 22, 2008, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-got-to-be-shitting-me-names/434361/55 "2008-01-22T15:08:35Z")
[QUOTE=Kayeby]
A friend of a friend’s first name is Lady and her middle name is Diana. Apparently this is deliberate, as her mother is (or was?) a big admirer. Lady’s sister is named Daisy but no word on whether her middle name is Duck.
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or, going with the “royal” theme - Duke, perhaps? Of course, Daisy Duke was a Southerner
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### Author:  [@Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Man_With_a_Cat)
#### Post date: [January 22, 2008, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-got-to-be-shitting-me-names/434361/56 "2008-01-22T15:19:43Z")
I talked to a guy the other day named Dat Ho.
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### Author:  [@robby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robby)
#### Post date: [January 22, 2008, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-got-to-be-shitting-me-names/434361/57 "2008-01-22T21:17:23Z")
I rented a house once from a guy named Hugh G. Cox.
He fit his name, too.
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### Author:  [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)
#### Post date: [January 22, 2008, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-got-to-be-shitting-me-names/434361/58 "2008-01-22T21:21:42Z")
Ah, I forgot another - my brother had a friend named Harry Van Beest.
We all called him “Mikey.”
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### Author:  [@Moirai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moirai)
#### Post date: [January 22, 2008, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-got-to-be-shitting-me-names/434361/59 "2008-01-22T22:19:46Z")
My dad went to high school with a guy named Peter Rabbit. He goes by Pete, but still…
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### Author:  [@moonstarssun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/moonstarssun)
#### Post date: [January 22, 2008, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-got-to-be-shitting-me-names/434361/60 "2008-01-22T23:03:55Z")
This thread has me in tears…
I worked at the transcipts office when I was in college and ran across some bizarre ones. my favorites were:
Margaret Lamb-Slaughter
Ivan Ho
Weiwei Wang
Rainey Summer Day
And of course, on that campus where I worked, was the Hogg Building, named after the family whose children included Ima Hogg. It’s just wrong.
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