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JohnKleeb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-11-04 11:07 AM
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Funniest name or last name of a person you've heard of
Ok so I found one of those sites where you can do searches on names.
www.411.com
and I found a guy with the name of "Penis" and "Poop", I bet these poor people were ridiculed. I was called Klevage in middle school btw :D.
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liberalmuse Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-11-04 11:09 AM
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1. My cousin went to school..
with a girl named, 'Honeycom'.
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JohnKleeb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-11-04 11:11 AM
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3. hah honeycom
I was looking in my sophomore year book with a friend and the kid's name was Niles Standish who we found, I was like, isnt that the character from crank yankers, funnily enough, my friend who is a grade younger than me and we go to a big school knew the kid heh. Really, though try that site out, there are some funny ass names.
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Lefta Dissenter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-11-04 11:11 AM
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2. my sister dated
a guy with the last name of Kneebone. My dad referred to him as "That Patella Guy."
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Digit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-11-04 11:12 AM
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4. Cantwell Muckenfuss, atty
He was in NoVa, but the most well known in NoVa was
Harry Beaver, gynecologist.
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Digit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-11-04 11:18 AM
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11. Howard Stern, when he was in DC
tried repeatedly to call Dr Beaver on the air.
Then again, you know Howard! :+
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vivalarev Donating Member (503 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-11-04 11:45 AM
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31. Dr Beaver called into Elliot in the morning...
it was about 3 years ago, but i still remember it
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DubyaSux Donating Member (366 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-13-04 08:40 PM
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55. Hey...
....I remember that. I used to listen to DC-101 every morning on the way to work listeing to Howard Stern. He was way further over the edge then if you ask me...
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gardenista Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-13-04 11:22 PM
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71. Do not make fun of Cantwell Muckenfuss.
I used to know him and his wife (knew her better), when I lived in DC. They are both superb people, and solid DEMS!
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gardenista Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-13-04 11:24 PM
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72. Ben High and Britagon Roberts
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RevCheesehead Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-11-04 11:13 AM
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5. Hugh Mann and Dovie Cude
Edited on Sat Sep-11-04 11:17 AM by RevCheesehead
are (were?) real people in churches I served. For real.

on edit:
in defense of Dovie's parents, she married into "Cude"
She told me one Christmas she couldn't understant why the children, who were singing "the Friendly Beasts" were singing about her.
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RevCheesehead Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-11-04 11:15 AM
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6. I also had a history professor named Jack Butt
this is also for real.
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napi21 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-11-04 11:39 AM
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26. Well, you know the founder of HEB stores in Tx is H.E. Butt.
That's his real name!!!
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Ladyhawk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-11-04 11:43 AM
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30. There was a guy in the local phone book named Rusty Butt.
Edited on Sat Sep-11-04 12:15 PM by Ladyhawk
Hey, it was a small town and we needed something to do when we were kids. :evilgrin:

There was also a guy named James Kirk. We often called him searching for Spock.
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Occulus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-11-04 11:15 AM
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7. A student from the Far East
in a friend's class was named Fok-Hing Yop.

No joke.
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koopie57 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-11-04 11:16 AM
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8. Dr. Gesundheit
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Sporadicus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-11-04 11:16 AM
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9. An Ancestor of Mine Had the Surname 'Glasscock'
I'm glad it was on my maternal side.
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Meshuga Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-11-04 11:17 AM
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10. Vitnamese guy named Huong Long and another named Phuc Vu
People made fun of them a lot...
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JohnKleeb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-11-04 11:22 AM
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13. oh man
When we were listening to music on the way to the beach with my dad, mom, and two brothers, my dad was listening to an artist by the name of Ron Sexsmith, I was like dad, you know he so made that up, and hes like if he were a glam rocker, you'd have a point but hes soft rock, really, they had silversmiths, goldsmiths, blacksmiths, but whats a sexsmith? me and my closest brother in age concluded it was like a pimp :D.
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Gyre Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-11-04 11:21 AM
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12. Greg Focker
from "Meet the Parents". But DeNiro helped make it funny. :)

Gyre
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JohnKleeb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-11-04 11:27 AM
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18. His real name is Gaylord heh
I really wanna see meet the fockers with Hoffman as Father Focker and Streisland as Mother Focker.
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russian33 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-11-04 11:23 AM
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14. Penny Pussey...used to work with
It was Penelope Pussey, but she liked to be called Penny :)
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havocmom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-11-04 11:25 AM
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15. Dr. Beaver, OB-GYN
Had his own medical clinic... yep, the Beaver Clinic.
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EmperorHasNoClothes Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-11-04 11:25 AM
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16. A urologist named "Cockburn"
No kidding! I saw a picture of his in a book full of funny signs
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JohnKleeb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-11-04 11:30 AM
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19. Was it Dr. Richard Cockburn?
There's a Dr. Dick Head I believe, I saw his political contributions on newsmeat.
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eyesroll Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-11-04 11:26 AM
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17. There was a girl named Marijuana Pepsi in the town in which I went
to college. I thought it was urban legend, until I got independent confirmation (she later won a scholarship; it was covered in the city newspaper. I also met someone who went to college with her).

Poor girl.
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newscaster Donating Member (586 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-11-04 11:31 AM
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20. In high school.....
there was a kid named Herbert Putz. (In Hebrew, Putz is a cutesy way of saying penis.

And in college, there was a sorority girl running for student council. Her name was Joyce Crews. Now say it fast and you can imagine what campaign slogan we created for her.
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JohnKleeb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-11-04 11:33 AM
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23. hah the poor kid
Yeah, Ive heard Putz before, my one brother heard it actually first from a Gentile, and now he's calling my 3 year brother putz, I believe I read somewhere that Al D'Amato called Chuck Schumer a putzhead and denied it. Joyce Crews haha!, she's been with everyone.
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St. Jarvitude Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-11-04 12:09 PM
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41. I always thought "putz" was Yiddish?
Maybe I'm just an ignorant Gentile :)
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pss Donating Member (124 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-11-04 11:31 AM
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21. When I was a kid...
... a family moved into our suburban town from somewhere in West Virginia. The girl who was in my class was named Hilda Fagg. I know she had a brother who got even more shit than she did, poor kid. They didn't last long in that town. A few months, maybe.

A few years later I found out that they moved to another town nearby and changed their name to Flagg. Smart decision!
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ben_thayer Donating Member (344 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-11-04 11:32 AM
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22. Peter Pullen
Seen on the side of a tow truck
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Dogmudgeon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-11-04 11:37 AM
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24. Comfort and Satisfy Bottoms
Twin sisters at UVa in the 1970s.

Cuties, too, from what I hear.

--bkl
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theshadow Donating Member (618 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-11-04 11:38 AM
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25. Harry Koch
Honest to God; he used to be the postmaster in Kewaskum, Wisconsin. What were his parents thinking?
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calico1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-11-04 11:40 AM
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27. In the area where I live
there is a dentist named Dr. Smiley and a vet named Dr. Doolittle. No joke. Don't know if having those names influenced their career choices but I think its kind of neat to have a name to go so well with your job!
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Philosophy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-11-04 11:57 AM
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39. I went to a dermatologist named Dr. Pat Rash
Kinda makes you wonder.
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napi21 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-11-04 11:41 AM
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28. The founder of HEB stores in TX is H.E. Butt
I remember people telling me that when I moved there, and I found it really funny.
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Systematic Chaos Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-11-04 11:41 AM
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29. Silky Cummings
Girl who attended the high school I went to in my sophomore year.
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Lancer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-11-04 11:48 AM
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33. Dr. Doolittle
is my doc in the box, when I really need to see a doctor.

Real names from my hometown:

Lotta Green Dick

Gay Hussey

Kelly Green

My mother went to high school with (I kid you not):

North Carol Liner

and a girl named Urine (pronounced "You-reen")
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MrScorpio Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-11-04 11:46 AM
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32. This guy. He's in the Air Force
Leland Suchadoll

http://www.411.com/search/Find_Person?firstname_begins_with=1&firstname=leland&name=suchadoll&city_zip=&state_id=

I was stationed with him in Korea, back in the day
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blackcat77 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-11-04 11:48 AM
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34. My name is forgetable but at least it's not stupid...
A guy named Oval Stone was head of the Nazarene Church around here a few years ago. And I had a dentist named Mohler.

My first name is Paul, and when I was in grade school back in the 50s, the other kids called me Poll Parrot, which was a brand of children's shoes back then.

The most interesting name I can remember for a classmate was Gary Leuteritz. You'd think that would make him subject to jokes, but he was built like a tank and NOBODY messed with him about anything.
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XanaDUer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-11-04 11:49 AM
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35. Two
Schmucker, Slutsky.
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JohnKleeb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-11-04 11:50 AM
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37. Slutsky and Hutch
:D
the porno.
theres some Hitlers and some Stalins if you use 411.
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Ramsey Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-11-04 11:50 AM
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36. Lemonjello
That was the name of a kid I saw in clinic once when I was in medical school.

Pronuonced: liMonjeLo
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Jackpine Radical Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-11-04 11:52 AM
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38. I knew a guy in the Army named Peter Abbott.
That's the best I can do this morning.
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Westegg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-11-04 12:09 PM
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40. Weir (pronounced "We're") Strange. From Pittsburgh...
You out there, buddy? If so, I gotta tell you that, more than 20 years later, your name still cracks me up.

I also have an old pal named Jake Stake, which is kinda funny, but frankly I always thought it was cool.
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Alleycat Donating Member (992 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-11-04 12:11 PM
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42. Penny Nickles
Ex-wife of a guy I worked with. I also knew a couple who named their daughter Harley - their last name was Davidson.
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Ladyhawk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-11-04 12:15 PM
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43. I knew a Paige Turner and a Kandy Barr when I was in college. n/t
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Screaming Lord Byron Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-11-04 12:53 PM
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44. Velvett Fuhrer.
I win.
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blindpig Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-11-04 12:58 PM
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45. here's a couple...
Deluna Walker; Radio Cruell.
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moez Donating Member (638 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-11-04 12:59 PM
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46. Southern Indiana is home to a priest with a rather unfortunate name....
Father Firmus Dick....

http://www.geocities.com/stjohnsvincennes/pap.htm
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Darth_Kitten Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-11-04 01:01 PM
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47. Wolfart.....
;)
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Champ Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-11-04 01:04 PM
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48. My last name
:)
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Dogmudgeon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-11-04 01:06 PM
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49. Faith Popcorn
Pollster, talk-show diva, "liberal" Republican media shill (now in hiding, I think).

--bkl
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UrbScotty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-13-04 08:24 PM
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50. John Kleeb. Oh, besides that?
There's the race car driver Dick Trickle.
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JohnKleeb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-13-04 08:25 PM
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51. shut up lol
All my name means is god's gracious gift glue.
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Magrittes Pipe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-13-04 08:27 PM
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52. Pullin Wang
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JohnKleeb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-13-04 08:28 PM
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53. oh man :)
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Dookus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-13-04 08:32 PM
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54. I had a highschool history teacher
named Lenwood Peacock.
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ikojo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-13-04 09:24 PM
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63. My high school AP History teacher was
Leonard Semon...oh you can bet we had fun with his last name...he was a VERY good teacher.
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Deja Q Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-13-04 08:47 PM
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56. The surname was 'Brabender'
:D
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JohnKleeb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-13-04 08:49 PM
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57. hah my dad was listening ot an artist by the name of Sexsmith
me and my brothers really wanted to know what the hell that meant, I was like and definely fooling around saying like you know Dad, its so obvious he made it up, then again, I went around claiming after seeing Titatic that Billy Zane was knocking up Kate Winset's mom.
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onebigbadwulf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-13-04 08:49 PM
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58. The man show had a whole segment with guys with bad names
Mike Hawk and Harry Sach and so forth.
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JohnKleeb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-13-04 08:51 PM
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59. Mike Hawk heh
if you ever played GTAIII, one of the radio jockey's names is Mike Hunt, yes Mike we know its yours :D.
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onebigbadwulf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-14-04 06:28 AM
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73. They had Jack Hoff too. Oh man
that's the worst.
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ikojo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-13-04 09:18 PM
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60. I have a friend whose grandpa's last name
was Lipschitz....Jews don't always have the best names, ya know.
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Mrs_Beastman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-13-04 09:20 PM
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61. Florida Orange
actual name of a non-drag queen, she lives in Florida,also
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GOPisEvil Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-13-04 09:22 PM
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62. Dr. Dick Chop, a urologist here in Austin
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happyasaclam Donating Member (165 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-13-04 09:26 PM
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64. Richard Face
He is a member of parliament (in australia), the minister for racing & sport or some such.
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RebelYell Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-13-04 09:50 PM
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65. Dick Tapper
My dad's urologist.
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Zing Zing Zingbah Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-13-04 10:00 PM
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66. Rockashaburn
My husband had a student with this as a first name. I think it's kind of a neat name, actually.
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Kat45 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-13-04 10:49 PM
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67. I met a woman named Jack Daniels.
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nothingshocksmeanymore Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-13-04 10:50 PM
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68. Colon Bowel...I mean Colin Powell
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skygazer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-13-04 11:10 PM
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69. My dad knew a woman named Dusty Rhodes
Her maiden name was Dusty Fields. No lie.
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MissAnnThrope Donating Member (192 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-13-04 11:13 PM
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70. Dick Trickle
I always thought he had to be incredibly secure with his masculinity to allow people to call him Dick. I actually managed to watch 20 minutes of a Nascar race once, because I couldn't believe his name.
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roguevalley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-14-04 06:56 AM
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74. odd boy names: Beverly, Connie
odd names period:

Grizelda Mustard
Theodore A. Bear

Got those poll watching. :)

In our town we have:

Dr. Slaughter: Dentist
Dr. Pitts: Dentist

the doctor who delivered me: Rex Carr

My best friend's mom and her twin sisters; Essie, Glessie and Bossie
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auburngrad82 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-14-04 07:07 AM
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76. Dick Trickle was a great race driver.
Didn't race in NASCAR until late in his career. Mostly midwest in the ASA circuit, I think. Very funny man and loved to party. He said in an interview once that he only needed one hour of sleep for every hundred miles he was racing and if it was just qualifying all he needed was a shower.
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auburngrad82 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-14-04 07:04 AM
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75. Dick Leakey
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Bridget Burke Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-14-04 07:59 AM
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77. The late Ima Hogg
She was a philanthropist who contributed greatly to the arts in Houston--helped found the Ballet, Symphony & Fine Arts Museum. Her mansion on Buffalo Bayou is part of the museum, holding the collection of American antiques begun by her.

Daughter of Governor Jim Hogg, she was named after a character in a novel. She lived an active life into her 90's & never married.

As a child, I was told she had sisters "Ura" & "Hesa"; this was not true!
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Lydia Leftcoast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-14-04 08:59 AM
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78. A tie between Gurley Crumb and Virpi Zuck
Gurley murdered some people in Oregon a few years ago. With a name like that, no wonder he was ordinary!

Virpi Zuck was on the roster of a professional organization that I belonged to. When my school hosted the organization's convention, we hoped that Virpi Zuck would show up, but she didn't.
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scarlet_owl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-14-04 09:11 AM
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79. Pepsi Pearson and Ruth Cuthperthen.
Say the second one out loud for full effect.
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LeftishBrit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-14-04 09:40 AM
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80. Some names are a bit too suited to people's professions
I have known people in Accounts called Cashman and Ledger. I also know a primary school teacher called Mrs. Littlechild.

There is a book on animal behaviour by Fox and Tiger.

As regards 'off-colour' names, I've come across them more in connection with places than people. There are streets in Oxford called Titup Hall Drive and Crotch Crescent; and a village in the Cotswolds called Bryant's Bottom. And isn't there a river somewhere called the River Piddle?
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Rhiannon12866 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-14-04 10:01 AM
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81. I went to summer camp with Maureen Hoar
I introduced her to my Dad as just Maureen. I really hoped he wouldn't ask.:shrug:
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pagerbear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-14-04 10:19 AM
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82. From my mom's college yearbook
Imogene Mozingo
Zoda Phipps
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XNASA Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-14-04 10:20 AM
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83. Either 'Pinkstaff' or 'Massingill".
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Carson Donating Member (560 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-14-04 11:41 AM
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84. Bonnie Oder, and a few others....
A local family has 10 children. They named the last two "Niner" (girl) and "Tenor" (boy)


Wavie (man)
Elma Ree and Kermit (husband and wife)
Gova
Odaline
Oral
Virgaline
Thedy Sue
Pirtle

Since I live in Kentucky, I could go on and on... *wink*
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Surf Cowboy Donating Member (500 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-14-04 12:15 PM
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85. Dick Wolf, the producer of "Law & Order"
I always thought it would be funny to see his tax return:

Name: Wolf Dick

Also, the NASCAR driver, Dick Trickle. His tax return:

Trickle Dick
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Caution Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-14-04 12:28 PM
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86. Dick Swett ran for office in New Hampshire
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Caution Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-14-04 12:29 PM
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87. Christopher Peter Bacon. Yes he was Chris P Bacon and it was purposeful
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Blue-Jay Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-14-04 12:32 PM
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88. Seymour Pecker. <---- I did not make that up!
I found him on a database at work. Apparently he lives in Ney York State somewhere.
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Norbert Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-14-04 12:35 PM
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89. Dick Head
And the guy preferred to be called Dick instead of Rick or Richard. :shrug:
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