# 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:** 6
### Author:  [@Charger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Charger)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2008, 7:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-got-to-be-shitting-me-names/434361/101 "2008-01-24T07:45:45Z")
I have set up business cards for two different people named Barbara Bell (“Barb Bell”).
I once had to type a business card for Brian Pancake, but there was a typo in the instructions and his name came up as “Brain Pancake.”
I recently set up a form letter for a customer who has a client named Pearl Butt.
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### Author:  [@Mister\_Rik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Rik)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2008, 8:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-got-to-be-shitting-me-names/434361/102 "2008-01-24T08:50:10Z")
> [@OpalCat](#):
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> I went to middle school with a Preston P. Preston.
[QUOTE=bufftabby]
I had a professor, Dr. Philip Phillips.
[/QUOTE]
I went to school with a guy named Tom Pederson. His dad’s name was Peder.
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### Author:  [@movingfinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/movingfinger)
#### Post date: [January 25, 2008, 6:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-got-to-be-shitting-me-names/434361/103 "2008-01-25T06:15:26Z")
Befrore she married my dad my mother used to hang around with a woman named Voda Clapsaddle.
I have always been in awe of that name.
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### Author:  [@El\_DeLuxo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_DeLuxo)
#### Post date: [January 25, 2008, 7:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-got-to-be-shitting-me-names/434361/104 "2008-01-25T07:24:23Z")
I saw a tombstone somewhere in California once that was inscribed with the name Yang Oh Bang . That’s probably not funny in Chinese, but it gave me a ten-minute case of the chortles.
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### Author:  [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)
#### Post date: [January 25, 2008, 10:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-got-to-be-shitting-me-names/434361/105 "2008-01-25T10:13:07Z")
You liked Yang Oh Bang, you’ll love [Ok Suk Whang](http://www.lolviral.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/suk_whang.png). Not so much a name, more a nod of approval.
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### Author:  [@scareyfaerie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scareyfaerie)
#### Post date: [January 25, 2008, 10:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-got-to-be-shitting-me-names/434361/106 "2008-01-25T10:36:18Z")
I used to have dealings with a woman called Beulah Plunkett. I think you have to be extremely tall and large-chested to carry off a name like that.
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### Author:  [@essell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/essell)
#### Post date: [January 25, 2008, 11:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-got-to-be-shitting-me-names/434361/107 "2008-01-25T11:34:38Z")
After meeting someone with the name Goldsack I didn’t see anything funny until my colleague pointed it out.
Also in my time I’ve run into:
Mr Honeyman, which made my laugh but it’s not really funny.
Mr Goatman, which is funny from any angle I think.
And Mr Dicme, pronounced exactly how you think it should be.
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### Author:  [@kferr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kferr)
#### Post date: [January 25, 2008, 12:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-got-to-be-shitting-me-names/434361/108 "2008-01-25T12:04:21Z")
Captain of the South Africa football (soccer) team - [Excellent Walaza](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Excellent_Walaza)
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### Author:  [@Baron\_Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baron_Greenback)
#### Post date: [January 25, 2008, 12:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-got-to-be-shitting-me-names/434361/109 "2008-01-25T12:16:06Z")
There’s an Australian chap who plays football in Scotland named Danny Invincible, which I think is pretty cool.
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### Author:  [@The\_Chao\_Goes\_Mu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Chao_Goes_Mu)
#### Post date: [January 25, 2008, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-got-to-be-shitting-me-names/434361/110 "2008-01-25T13:25:17Z")
[QUOTE=movingfinger]
Befrore she married my dad my mother used to hang around with a woman named Voda Clapsaddle.
I have always been in awe of that name.
[/QUOTE]
_Snicker_
One of my nicknames for my Mom is Hortensia Von Clapsaddle III.
Yeah, we’re a strange family. 😉
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### Author:  [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)
#### Post date: [January 25, 2008, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-got-to-be-shitting-me-names/434361/111 "2008-01-25T15:09:59Z")
A while back, in the course of my job, I encountered a couple with two daughters. The girls’ names were Eboknea and Ivoreah. That’s pronounced “eh-bow-KNEE-uh” and “eye-vo-REE-uh”.
Their parents at the time were not living together in perfect harmony.
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### Author:  [@drm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drm)
#### Post date: [January 25, 2008, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-got-to-be-shitting-me-names/434361/112 "2008-01-25T16:51:38Z")
[QUOTE=Oslo Ostragoth]
From a friend: **Shaholorondra DiAquinita Jones**.
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I imagine that name coming out of Debra Wilson’s mouth on Mad TV. [link](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbdnVTYkjqc&feature=related)
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### Author:  [@Ceejaytee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ceejaytee)
#### Post date: [January 25, 2008, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-got-to-be-shitting-me-names/434361/113 "2008-01-25T19:49:24Z")
Not an bad name but a bit unfortunate for the guy who has it: [Martin Luther King, Jr.](http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/251/story/226444.html), especially when his mail got returned because he’s “deceased.”
According to the article, his grandfather’s name was Abraham Lincoln.
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### Author:  [@scdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scdad)
#### Post date: [January 25, 2008, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-got-to-be-shitting-me-names/434361/114 "2008-01-25T20:41:46Z")
The Aiken County SC sheriff is named Michael Hunt. A great sheriff he is, and the local media is always careful to call him “Michael.”
[http://www.aikencountysheriff.org/](http://www.aikencountysheriff.org/)
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### Author:  [@bannerrefugee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bannerrefugee)
#### Post date: [January 25, 2008, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-got-to-be-shitting-me-names/434361/115 "2008-01-25T21:08:47Z")
I almost forgot
When I worked at a college in Atlanta we had a girl register named Tekelia. I almost laughed at her when I realized how to pronounce it.
I wonder if she had a sister named Margereta?
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### Author:  [@mikemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mikemo)
#### Post date: [January 25, 2008, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-got-to-be-shitting-me-names/434361/116 "2008-01-25T21:39:23Z")
A girl I knew in High School was named Louisa Hoar. Rumor had it her mom’s name was Ima.
Another guy from HS was named Colin Bloch.
Guy in college went by the nickname Poonlarp. He claimed he was looking up someone in a phonebook and came across the name “Poonlarp Fantuma Bumrung.”
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### Author:  [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)
#### Post date: [January 25, 2008, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-got-to-be-shitting-me-names/434361/117 "2008-01-25T22:05:01Z")
Just ran across another one today while doing some assessment work:
Burgundy Bridges
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### Author:  [@Caira\_Rand](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caira_Rand)
#### Post date: [January 26, 2008, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-got-to-be-shitting-me-names/434361/118 "2008-01-26T02:08:56Z")
WHEN MY BRO WAS IN TECK SCHOOL HE WAS IN A CLASS WITH Jack Menhoff when i fornd out the n was silent it was halirous
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### Author:  [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)
#### Post date: [January 26, 2008, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-got-to-be-shitting-me-names/434361/119 "2008-01-26T03:43:32Z")
Drinking & posting is dangerous. Just sayin’.
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### Author:  [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)
#### Post date: [January 26, 2008, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-got-to-be-shitting-me-names/434361/120 "2008-01-26T03:48:41Z")
[QUOTE=ScareyFaerie]
I used to have dealings with a woman called Beulah Plunkett. I think you have to be extremely tall and large-chested to carry off a name like that.
[/QUOTE]
Or you have to be a 1940s movie busybody with a preposterous hat and a voice like an over-amplified canary.
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