# 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
**Page:** 4
### Author:  [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)
#### Post date: [January 22, 2008, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-got-to-be-shitting-me-names/434361/61 "2008-01-22T23:47:15Z")
A guy I used to work with had an obituary for a woman named **Edna May Swallow-Cox** taped to the side of his filing cabinet. He didn’t know her, he just clipped it because he thought the name was hilarious.
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### Author:  [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)
#### Post date: [January 22, 2008, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-got-to-be-shitting-me-names/434361/62 "2008-01-22T23:50:38Z")
My cousin’s name is Marc Anthony. When I first heard of THE Antony, I thought it referred to said cousin.
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### Author:  [@Tool\_of\_the\_Conspiracy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tool_of_the_Conspiracy)
#### Post date: [January 22, 2008, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-got-to-be-shitting-me-names/434361/63 "2008-01-22T23:54:22Z")
[QUOTE=masterofnone]
I used to work with a guy named David William Blow, and his son Dave Will Blow II. I’ll never understand why the guy passed down that name. Given the guy’s attitude , it was probably a “Boy Named Sue” thing.
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My uncle, **Dick Hunger** , passed down his name…
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### Author:  [@moonstarssun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/moonstarssun)
#### Post date: [January 23, 2008, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-got-to-be-shitting-me-names/434361/64 "2008-01-23T00:38:23Z")
I have a friend who’s a junior high science teacher. While he was in school, he talked about changing his last name (Cox) because of the age group he’d be teaching. I helpfully suggested Dix as his new name. He didn’t go for it.
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### Author:  [@Mister\_Rik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Rik)
#### Post date: [January 23, 2008, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-got-to-be-shitting-me-names/434361/65 "2008-01-23T00:46:59Z")
My church has three generations of guys with the same name (John _Lastname_, Sr., Jr., and III). I’m debating whether or not I should take the Jr. (who is my age) aside and ask if he ever plans to vacation in England. And if he is, I’ll be forced to strongly suggest that he start practicing a new form of address for his young son. Because he calls his son by his first and middle names:
John Thomas
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### Author:  [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)
#### Post date: [January 23, 2008, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-got-to-be-shitting-me-names/434361/66 "2008-01-23T01:58:14Z")
[QUOTE=Tool of the Conspiracy]
My uncle, **Dick Hunger** , passed down his name…
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I used to work with a Dick Lust, who likewise named his son “Richard.”
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### Author:  [@Crocodiles\_And\_Boulevards](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crocodiles_And_Boulevards)
#### Post date: [January 23, 2008, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-got-to-be-shitting-me-names/434361/67 "2008-01-23T02:16:12Z")
Back when I was in high school, there was a girl with the last name Leer, first name Crystal, and middle name of Chanda…
That’s right:
Crystal Chanda Leer.
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### Author:  [@Sal\_Ammoniac](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sal_Ammoniac)
#### Post date: [January 23, 2008, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-got-to-be-shitting-me-names/434361/68 "2008-01-23T02:26:10Z")
I came across a physician the other day whose name is D. Gregory Felch. I’d sooner kill myself.
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### Author:  [@Shayna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shayna)
#### Post date: [January 23, 2008, 9:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-got-to-be-shitting-me-names/434361/69 "2008-01-23T09:17:30Z")
My former Neurologist . . . Dr. Head . . . first name Richard. [Cite](http://www.ucomparehealthcare.com/drs/missouri/neurology_child_neurology/Head_Richard.html)
I’m not sure I could ever see myself going to a surgeon whose name was [Will Butcher](http://www.ucomparehealthcare.com/drs/wisconsin/orthopedic_surgery/Butcher_William.html), though.
A recent American Idol contestant’s mother was named Latrina. Seriously, what was her mother thinking, and why on earth would she keep it?
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### Author:  [@Dervorin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dervorin)
#### Post date: [January 23, 2008, 10:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-got-to-be-shitting-me-names/434361/70 "2008-01-23T10:45:42Z")
I knew someone called Friday Orji once. Never found out if he lived up to his name, though.
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### Author:  [@Radegast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Radegast)
#### Post date: [January 23, 2008, 11:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-got-to-be-shitting-me-names/434361/71 "2008-01-23T11:42:04Z")
When I first started working I came across the name Outerbridge Horsey and thought someone was putting me on. He was the U.S. Ambassador to Czechoslovakia at one point, and just one of many somewhat unusual names that populated the U.S. Foreign Service.
And, the first time I was serving in Korea, two of my local staff were Kim Yu Suk and Kim Kum Soon.
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### Author:  [@kferr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kferr)
#### Post date: [January 23, 2008, 11:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-got-to-be-shitting-me-names/434361/72 "2008-01-23T11:50:27Z")
[Dr. Beavers, OB/GYN](http://www.thecityofomaha.com/physician/physician-ob-gyn.html)
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### Author:  [@robinc308](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robinc308)
#### Post date: [January 23, 2008, 12:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-got-to-be-shitting-me-names/434361/73 "2008-01-23T12:02:41Z")
[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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Oooh, it can’t be coincidence, can it?
A friend of mine works in student affairs at a local university, there’s a Lady Diana The on the books. Of course, as universities do, they list surname first:
The, Lady Diana
She claims keeping a straight face is somewhat difficult.
😃
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### Author:  [@Illuminatiprimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Illuminatiprimus)
#### Post date: [January 23, 2008, 12:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-got-to-be-shitting-me-names/434361/74 "2008-01-23T12:18:00Z")
My psychiatrist is called (I shit you not) Dr Brain. Even better, his first name his Paul so he’s Dr P Brain. 🙂
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### Author:  [@GrizzRich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrizzRich)
#### Post date: [January 23, 2008, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-got-to-be-shitting-me-names/434361/75 "2008-01-23T14:09:19Z")
I once issued airline tickets to a woman and her daughter.
The woman’s name was _Dennisse_.
The daughter’s name was _Essinned_.
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### Author:  [@VanillaGorilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VanillaGorilla)
#### Post date: [January 23, 2008, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-got-to-be-shitting-me-names/434361/76 "2008-01-23T14:18:51Z")
[QUOTE=Phase42]
My church has three generations of guys with the same name (John _Lastname_, Sr., Jr., and III). I’m debating whether or not I should take the Jr. (who is my age) aside and ask if he ever plans to vacation in England. And if he is, I’ll be forced to strongly suggest that he start practicing a new form of address for his young son. Because he calls his son by his first and middle names:
John Thomas
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I don’t get it? 😕
For some great names, check out the [9 manliest names in the world!](http://www.cracked.com/article_14982_9-manliest-names-in-world.html)
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### Author:  [@The\_Chao\_Goes\_Mu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Chao_Goes_Mu)
#### Post date: [January 23, 2008, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-got-to-be-shitting-me-names/434361/77 "2008-01-23T14:26:06Z")
This thread is cracking me up.
When compared to some of the names already posted these are light weight but I knew a Michael Hock and graduated 3 years behind a Justin Case.
Oh and a Professor of physics at the University of Toledo in Ohio is Bernard Bopp. Yep, thats. B. Bopp.
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### Author:  [@LouisB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LouisB)
#### Post date: [January 23, 2008, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-got-to-be-shitting-me-names/434361/78 "2008-01-23T15:27:42Z")
I new a guy named Richard Cocke; he insisted on being called Richard as Dick would “be too damn redundant,” in his own words.
My all time personal favorite name is Mary Never Misses A Shot; an Oglala Sioux woman in South Dakota. My second favorite is Kills With Two Arrows, another Oglala Sioux. Both were good people and I’m glad I got the chance to become acquainted with them.
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### Author:  [@Richard\_Pearse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Richard_Pearse)
#### Post date: [January 23, 2008, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-got-to-be-shitting-me-names/434361/79 "2008-01-23T15:31:18Z")
[QUOTE=Etumretniw]
I don’t get it? 😕
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John Thomas = Penis = Todger = Cock = Dick = Rod etc.
The chap who signs any correspondence I get from the insurance company is called Terry Towel.
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### Author:  [@UncleRojelio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleRojelio)
#### Post date: [January 23, 2008, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-got-to-be-shitting-me-names/434361/80 "2008-01-23T15:40:24Z")
[QUOTE=moonstarssun]
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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Ima had a sister named “Ura”.
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