# 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:** 5
### Author:  [@lisacurl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lisacurl)
#### Post date: [January 23, 2008, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-got-to-be-shitting-me-names/434361/81 "2008-01-23T15:41:40Z")
[QUOTE=Drain Bead]
If we’re talking bad football names, nothing beats [Lucious Pusey](http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/player/profile?playerId=148900).
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Had a client at a previous employer named Lucious Butts. He was a senior, too, so the name was passed on.
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### Author:  [@Skara\_Brae](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skara_Brae)
#### Post date: [January 23, 2008, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-got-to-be-shitting-me-names/434361/82 "2008-01-23T16:20:09Z")
I had a job once where I had to talk to Randy Gay on a regular basis. It was sort of funny.
The best was when I worked in a call center and had a client who had legally changed his name to Luke Skywalker. I kid you not. We had copies of the court paperwork for the name change and everything. I talked to him once. Even he seemed kind of sheepish when I asked him to veryify his name…
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### Author:  [@JimNightshade](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JimNightshade)
#### Post date: [January 23, 2008, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-got-to-be-shitting-me-names/434361/83 "2008-01-23T20:37:03Z")
I have a friend who has the most awesome surname: “Super a Man I am” - although admittedly it is written as 'Superamaniam".
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### Author:  [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)
#### Post date: [January 23, 2008, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-got-to-be-shitting-me-names/434361/84 "2008-01-23T21:04:24Z")
[QUOTE=Plynck]
So which would be worse - to have a “II” after your name, or the more proper “Junior”?
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What do you mean by “more proper”? The two are equally proper. If you are named after a grandfather or an uncle, you can’t use “Junior,” but you can use “II.” Prior to the current one, the governor of Ohio was “Robert Alphonso Taft II,” because he was named after his grandfather. (His father was plain “Robert Taft.”)
[QUOTE=SmartAleq]
The worst one I ever saw was Dikshit Bahl
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Dikshit (sometimes spelled Dixit) is a common family name in parts of India. I’m surprised to see it used as a given name.
[QUOTE=bufftabby]
There’s also a Anurag Dikshit, whose name was accompanied by pronunciation advice: it’s pronounced “dik sit”.
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The pronunciations are interchangeable, depending on your ethnicity. Bengalis would pronounce it [dikkhit].
[QUOTE=FatBaldGuy]
we don’t commonly refer to them a Zebra Crossings here, mainly because most of them aren’t striped like zebras. Usually, pedestrian crossings are just a set of parallel lines making a lane to cross the street.
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Also, the term “pedestrian crossing” is also not common. We call them crosswalks.
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### Author:  [@Gorgon\_Heap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorgon_Heap)
#### Post date: [January 23, 2008, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-got-to-be-shitting-me-names/434361/85 "2008-01-23T21:28:00Z")
HAW HAW HAW!!!
**acsenray** that was hys_ter_ical!!!
What?
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### Author:  [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)
#### Post date: [January 23, 2008, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-got-to-be-shitting-me-names/434361/86 "2008-01-23T21:51:44Z")
[QUOTE=UncleRojelio]
Ima had a sister named “Ura”.
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[No, she didn’t.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ima_Hogg)
My brother swears he knew a girl with the perfect porn star name – Misty Sheets. I once corresponded with a woman who called herself Misty Velvet Rainwater, but I never found out whether that name had been bestowed by her parents or she had selected it for herself and proceeded to adopt it legally.
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### Author:  [@bannerrefugee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bannerrefugee)
#### Post date: [January 23, 2008, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-got-to-be-shitting-me-names/434361/87 "2008-01-23T22:42:14Z")
There is a man in Atlanta named Zippdy Doda. He’s in the phonebook. When I sold symphony memberships I had to call him. I couldn’t dial it without laughing, so my coworker spoke with him. He apparently was very nice, but uninterested in purchasing symphony tickets. Maybe if they had performed some cartoon music.
A woman at the same job was named Bunny Vrooman got mad when we called her and threatened to sue us. The man running the room brought in a bunny statue to help us remember not to call again.
Were I work there is a very nice man whose middle name is Subrahmanyeswara.
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### Author:  [@araminty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/araminty)
#### Post date: [January 23, 2008, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-got-to-be-shitting-me-names/434361/88 "2008-01-23T23:02:35Z")
I just came across a **Mr North E. West** , who works at an aviation museum in California. I fervently hope the E stands for East!
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### Author:  [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)
#### Post date: [January 23, 2008, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-got-to-be-shitting-me-names/434361/89 "2008-01-23T23:32:24Z")
We have someone at work named Latrina.
I frequently send paperwork or call people with odd names. So far we have a Misty Meadows, Sunshine, Starshine, Fluff [a man, I dont think I want to know] Peabody [but he pronounces it Pibbity] Bopp, and an absolutely phenomenonally nice lady named Sicko.
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### Author:  [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2008, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-got-to-be-shitting-me-names/434361/90 "2008-01-24T00:04:39Z")
Chicago’s own Channel 5 has that lovable Double-Phallic News Team of Dick Johnson and Peter Sack.
I always fantasize about them going to lunch with Peter O’Toole. TRIFECTA!
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### Author:  [@Mister\_Rik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Rik)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2008, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-got-to-be-shitting-me-names/434361/91 "2008-01-24T00:10:20Z")
These are neither uncommon, nor racy, nor especially funny, but I went to school with a Kelly Green and my baby sister’s best friend was a neighbor boy named Dusty Lane.
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### Author:  [@Ro\_Carter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ro_Carter)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2008, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-got-to-be-shitting-me-names/434361/92 "2008-01-24T00:13:35Z")
[QUOTE=araminty]
I just came across a **Mr North E. West** , who works at an aviation museum in California. I fervently hope the E stands for East!
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I believe he was on an episode of MythBusters (the one with the jet pack), and he said his middle name was, in fact, East.
My additions:
A guy named Bricker B. Buseth. Apparently his parents were concerned he’d forget his initials.
A girl a coach swore up and down he went to school with: Last name: Bugg, First name: Ima, Middle name: June.
A lady my mom did business with had the maiden name Bigger and married a guy with the last name Keister. They both decided to hyphenate their last names, resulting in checks from Mr. and Mrs. Bigger-Keister.
A couple guys I went to school with were named Cole and Field Finch. They tried so hard to be tough, but it’s difficult to be taken seriously when you are named after a bird.
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### Author:  [@Carm6773](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carm6773)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2008, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-got-to-be-shitting-me-names/434361/93 "2008-01-24T01:29:38Z")
[QUOTE=Plynck]
So which would be worse - to have a “II” after your name, or the more proper “Junior”?
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Speaking for my husband, who is a II rather than an Junior, Junior is better. People recognize Junior, they don’t know how to handle II.
For example, his PC Gamer Magazine says “Mr. Carm6773 Z.” He said “Mr. Carm6773 Two” when he signed up, and somewhere along the line the 2 got turned into a Z.
I work in Education, y’all would not BELIEVE the names I’ve seen.
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### Author:  [@Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hey_It_s_That_Guy)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2008, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-got-to-be-shitting-me-names/434361/94 "2008-01-24T01:59:54Z")
I’m easily amused by funny names, so I find no end to the fun of looking up random silly names on the [Social Security Death Index website](http://ssdi.rootsweb.com/). There were real people named:
JOYCE S POOP
BEVELRY A SHAM POO
Z MAHBOOBI POO
JOSEPH VAGINA
JACK ASS
CELIA BOOBIE
CHEE PEE
CAPTAIN PEE
URBAN WANKER
RAY ST PENIS
PUMPY MAYO
Like I said, easily amused.
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### Author:  [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2008, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-got-to-be-shitting-me-names/434361/95 "2008-01-24T02:43:15Z")
[QUOTE=Gorgon Heap]
**acsenray** that was hys_ter_ical!!!
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:dubious:
Forgive me for endeavouring to offer facts to the “fighting ignorance” message board.
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### Author:  [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2008, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-got-to-be-shitting-me-names/434361/96 "2008-01-24T03:00:26Z")
[QUOTE=AuntiePam]
Not quite on point, but while watching college football awhile back, the TV camera focused on the backs of two players sitting next to each other on the bench. I had to chuckle at the names on their jerseys – one Dingle, one Berry.
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I’ll see your [Dingle-Berry](http://kahlees.files.wordpress.com/2007/10/dingle_berry_west_virginia.jpg) and raise ya [Coke-Head](http://www.sportspunk.com/_borders/coke_head_football.jpg).
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### Author:  [@Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oslo_Ostragoth)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2008, 6:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-got-to-be-shitting-me-names/434361/97 "2008-01-24T06:52:16Z")
Guy who went to high school ahead of me: Harold Dick. Zero points to anyone who guesses how he was known.
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### Author:  [@Hippy\_Hollow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hippy_Hollow)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2008, 7:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-got-to-be-shitting-me-names/434361/98 "2008-01-24T07:26:44Z")
[QUOTE=Big Bad Voodoo Lou]
I’m easily amused by funny names, so I find no end to the fun of looking up random silly names on the [Social Security Death Index website](http://ssdi.rootsweb.com/). There were real people named:
JOYCE S POOP
BEVELRY A SHAM POO
Z MAHBOOBI POO
JOSEPH VAGINA
JACK ASS
CELIA BOOBIE
CHEE PEE
CAPTAIN PEE
URBAN WANKER
RAY ST PENIS
PUMPY MAYO
Like I said, easily amused.
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Oh good Lord, I laughed out loud, almost waking my infant son. Thanks a lot, **Lou**! 😛
Lucius Pusey shouldn’t feel bad. There’s a Pusey Library on Harvard’s campus. I never thought of it as dirty, though, as it’s pronounced “pyew-see.” That name Craphonso - what the hell were his parents thinking. No matter how it’s pronounced, the first four letters of your kid’s name is CRAP!
I’ve known:
Scarlet Angel
Plymouth Rock
Velvet Night
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### Author:  [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2008, 7:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-got-to-be-shitting-me-names/434361/99 "2008-01-24T07:34:32Z")
I went to middle school with a Preston P. Preston.
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### Author:  [@bufftabby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bufftabby)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2008, 7:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-got-to-be-shitting-me-names/434361/100 "2008-01-24T07:42:34Z")
I had a professor, Dr. Philip Phillips. I always wondered why his parents didn’t just spring for another “l” in his first name.
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