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Swede Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-26-10 11:53 PM
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'most unfortunate names' list
I can't see a parent doing some of these to their kids on purpose.


But 51-year-old Rose Bush, from Coventry, West Midlands, added to the broadcaster: “I always get comments about it but they are always very positive.”

Another woman, Jenny Taylor, of Kendal, Cumbria, also wrote: “Mine tops the lot. Think about it.”


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat...
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Urban Prairie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-27-10 12:02 AM
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1. Nope
THIS

Has to be the most "unfortunate" (and appropriate) name of all time, IMO.

:rofl:
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Capn Sunshine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-27-10 12:28 AM
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15. winnah!
that absolutely is without a doubt the best of the worst.

Dick Hertz might argue with you, but I don't think so.
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nomorenomore08 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-27-10 09:33 PM
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55. Is the esteemed Dr. Hertz a urologist, perchance?
:hide:
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XemaSab Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-27-10 12:38 AM
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16. That really is the BEST EVER
:D
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blockhead Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-27-10 09:25 PM
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54. along the same lines,
I met a fellow bricklayer named Harry Dix.
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mcctatas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-27-10 10:07 PM
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56. I posted that on my facebook
one of my friends spawn replied:
I just called his number. He like answered, which first of all, is wierd, cus it's like almost 10 pm on the east coast. I was gonna leave a voicemail saying "I need to see Dr. Harry Beaver about my Hairy Beave. Call me back at blah." But he actually answered. The exchange went something like this.

"Hello?"
"Uh. Hello?"
"Yeah?"... See More
"Is this Dr. Beaver?"
"Yes."
"Like, Your name is actually Harry Beaver?"
"Yes.."
"I'm so sorry."
"Okay. Thanks."

Then he hung up.

I was going continue with something like, "How unfortunate that your career path involves hairy beavers."

But, eh.
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Urban Prairie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-01-10 03:10 PM
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94. Funny how many people still say "hung up" when they mention that they ended
a phone call. How many people still own a wall telephone with a hook???

B-)
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Odin2005 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-28-10 07:09 PM
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74. EPIC WIN!!!
Send that to Failblog!
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Initech Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-28-10 08:56 PM
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78. And he's a gynecologist too! WIN!!!
:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:
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arbusto_baboso Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-01-10 11:19 AM
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91. There was a local insurance agent here named Rod Sanders.
Made me wince and cross my legs every time I passed his office.
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City of Mills Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-27-10 12:05 AM
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2. Like I posted on the 'other' thread
Edited on Sat Feb-27-10 12:07 AM by City of Mills
Dick Swett FTW!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Swett

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_GmMXfVVwTNw/Rh0LceXkiLI/AAAAAAAAAUg/fN-N81gSKXM/s320/dick+swett.jpg
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bullwinkle428 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-27-10 12:13 AM
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8. Needs to enter celebrity death match with Dick Pound!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Pound
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Swede Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-27-10 12:15 AM
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11. Yeah,sorry about that.
I coulda swore I was in teh lounge. :shrug:
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SoxFan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-27-10 10:05 AM
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19. Dick is a great guy!
His wife, Katrina, is running for Dick's old House seat in NH-02 this year. Dick and Katrina are both wonderful people.

FWIW, Katrina's sister married a guy named Timber Dick, who went on to serve on the Denver City Council.
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KamaAina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-27-10 05:22 PM
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42. Speaking of Katrina...
...that was what my feminist activist friend named her daughter.

Yup, she was born in New Orleans.
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tabbycat31 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-28-10 06:01 PM
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69. my mom works with someone named Katrina
her birthday's on 9/11. Talk about a double whammy
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HopeHoops Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-27-10 11:26 AM
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29. That's what I was going to post. He was my rep in NH for a while.
He was also the most responsive elected official I've had anywhere. His replies always tied in related subjects I had written about in the past. I never got one of those form letter type responses from him.
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TommyO Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-27-10 12:05 AM
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3. Richard Glasscock - yes, it's real!
Chocolate Brown? Yep, there's at least one of those.

My friends, even Suzanne Somer's fictional character, Christmas Snow, has real-life counterparts.

Parents can be downright stupid and cruel when it comes to naming their progeny.
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Bucky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-27-10 12:13 AM
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9. Cruel parents in my neighborhood when I was growing up
The family name was Mountain.

They named their three kids Rocky, Candy, and Smokey. Smokey was in my class in HS and he was a serious stoner. Rocky became a Republican campaign consultant and got into some shit in the 80s for some unethical financial hanky panky--this was back when Republican campaign financial hanky panky was reported by the TV news, although I'm not sure having as distinctive a name as Rocky Mountain didn't make it more likely his little scandal would get on the local TV news.
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kentauros Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-27-10 12:07 AM
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4. The mention of "Midlands" made me think of one famous Texan due to her name:
Ima Hogg :)
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Bucky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-27-10 12:10 AM
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6. I met her when I was a kid
She was a very sweet lady and a generous patron of the arts.
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kentauros Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-27-10 12:13 AM
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7. That's cool!
I know she was a great woman and patron, but her father really screwed up by just not thinking. Then again, perhaps the unfortunate name helped her in the long run, too...
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Bucky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-27-10 12:09 AM
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5. I have a number of Vietnamese students in my classes, often with inappropriate names.
Some of the first and last name mixes include Dong, My, Phuoc, and Nit. I hate it when the class gets a laugh out of some poor kid's name.
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Chellee Donating Member (215 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-27-10 12:13 AM
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10. Okay, two things...
How could they have missed the race car driver, Dick Trickle?

And I've thought about it. I still don't get it. Jenny Taylor?
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Swede Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-27-10 12:16 AM
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12. Say it out loud a couple of times.
You can do it.
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Chellee Donating Member (215 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-27-10 12:16 AM
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13. OMG
nt
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Maine-ah Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-01-10 03:21 PM
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96. omg. I just got it
:rofl:
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Sanity Claws Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-27-10 10:38 AM
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21. I don't get it either
I said it out loud several times and still didn't get it.
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peekaloo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-27-10 10:47 AM
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23. I'm slow, too but you'll get there....
Edited on Sat Feb-27-10 11:31 AM by peekaloo
genitalia
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jmowreader Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-27-10 10:56 AM
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26. It works better if you say her last name in a New England fashion
Say "tay-lah" instead of "tay-lor."
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Sanity Claws Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-27-10 11:34 AM
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30. Okay Now I get it
Her parents were probably totally unaware of it. At least I hope so
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LiberalEsto Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-01-10 01:07 PM
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92. My kids had a swim coach
called Jen Taylor

It never occurred to me.
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kentauros Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-27-10 12:25 AM
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14. Remember this one? "Talula Does the Hula From Hawaii"
'Talula Does The Hula From Hawaii' not a girl's name, New Zealand court rules
What kind of parent names any child that, or this one: Number 16 Bus Shelter :wtf:
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Hardrada Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-27-10 02:48 AM
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17. Guy who used to farm near here: Dick Harder
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tango-tee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-27-10 10:32 AM
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20. I wonder what (if?) some parents think.
Can you imagine being a teenage boy with that name? Growing up and having to constantly beat the snot out of other kids for making fun of your name?
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MiddleFingerMom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-27-10 02:57 AM
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18. I took a call once...
.
... from a woman named Tina Fish.
.
BAD parents.
.
No donut.
.
.
On the other hand, I went to school with 3 cute sisters
named Melody, Harmony, and Rhapsody.
.
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tango-tee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-27-10 10:40 AM
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22. There is a dentist right down the street here,
Edited on Sat Feb-27-10 10:42 AM by tango-tee
and his last name is Fucker.

It's not the least bit funny in German, because the word doesn't mean anything, but I get a chuckle out of it every time I pass by his office. For it to mean in German exactly what it means in English, all that's necessary is to substitute an "i" for the "u".

Saturday's language lesson is now officially over.
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theNotoriousP.I.G. Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-27-10 02:26 PM
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31. I was sitting in the bathroom one time with the window open
and I didn't understand German very well. My brother in law and his friend were locking up their bikes right outside the window and I heard them say the word Bitch...I assumed they were talking about me because that is an English word but it turned out...that was the last name of one of their teachers...
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tango-tee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-27-10 03:18 PM
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32. Hi there,
How are you?

Drop me a note, willya? I've been thinking of you, girl!
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muffin1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-27-10 10:48 AM
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24. I work at a video store, and back in the day we used to be quite busy.
A clerk from another location prank-called our store, and asked the clerk to call out and see if his dad was in our store.
The clerk called out, "Is Mike Hunt here?". :D

It might be like the Jenny Taylor moniker up thread. It took some people saying it a few times to themselves before they got it.

In fact, when we were telling the story years later to our owner (at a Christmas party), she kept saying loudly, "I don't get it! What's funny about MIKE HUNT?".
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peekaloo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-27-10 10:52 AM
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25. always good for a laugh for the people working Will Call at a sporting event
gets quite noisy in those booths at crunch time and I could always count on one person who would scream at the top of her lungs "Has anyone seen Mike Hunt!"
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Hardrada Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-28-10 02:28 AM
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65. Or one of our college favorites, "Paging Dick Gozinya"
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JCMach1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-27-10 10:57 AM
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27. Randy Prude (R) of course in Midland, TX
Was county commissioner when I lived there.

http://www.co.midland.tx.us/elections/Officials/County.asp
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JustABozoOnThisBus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-27-10 11:08 AM
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28. NASCAR driver Dick Trickle. High School must have been tough. nt
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bluethruandthru Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-27-10 03:23 PM
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33. There was a doctor here named Wellington Hung.
Bet I know what his nickname was!
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GreatCaesarsGhost Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-27-10 11:08 PM
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58. he worked at Holy Cross hospital, didn't he?
i worked at a lab and saw his name often.
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Blue_Tires Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-27-10 03:29 PM
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34. I thought this guy retired the title:




and there's also:

Dick Pole
http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/p/poledi01.shtml?redir

Pete LaCock
http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/l/lacocpe01.shtml?redir

And who remembers the Canadian named Dick Assman who got his 15 minute on Letterman in the early 90s?
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Paper Roses Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-27-10 03:29 PM
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35. In Salem Ma, there is a dentist named Dr Fang.
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BarbaRosa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-27-10 03:38 PM
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36. Albuquerque has a dentist named Ken Hurt.
IIRC I heard a comerical of his where he said "That's my name, not my aim."
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Orrex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-27-10 04:39 PM
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37. Dick Trickle is the silver medalist. Allow me to present the winner:


Thread over.
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Orrex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-27-10 04:42 PM
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38. And here's a bonus followup:


Took that picture with my very own camera. The only photoshopping was the removal of the town's name.
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KamaAina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-27-10 05:24 PM
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44. In today's big leagues, it's Mets pitcher J.J. Putz
Edited on Sat Feb-27-10 05:24 PM by KamaAina
it's pronounced "Poots". Yeah, that's the ticket.
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abq e streeter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-01-10 02:10 AM
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84. The White Sox used to have a guy named Rusty Kuntz--shit, just noticed I got beaten to it
Edited on Mon Mar-01-10 02:11 AM by abq e streeter
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Steely_Dan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-27-10 05:17 PM
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39. I knew a guy named....
Chip Glass.
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jmowreader Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-27-10 05:17 PM
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40. Richard Head has the most unfortunate name of them all
From Wikipedia: Richard Head (b. ca. 1637 in Ireland, died before 1696) wrote the satirical novel The English Rogue in 1665, which was one of the first English-language novels to be translated into a Continental language. The title "The English Rogue" was translated into "Simplicianisher Jan Perus, dessen Geburt und Herkommen, kurtzweiliger Lebens-Lauff, unterschiedliche Verheyrathung, Rencke, Schwencke, Elend, Reise, Gefaengnuss, Verurtheil- und Bekehrung," which led librarians all over Germany to exclaim, "you'd have to be a dickhead to write a book like this!"
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av8rdave Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-28-10 06:50 PM
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70. I used to work with a Fred Head
Richard was his middle name.


He was a great guy.
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cmd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-27-10 05:19 PM
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41. Keisha Butts
Edited on Sat Feb-27-10 05:22 PM by cmd
and I'm not making that up. A fellow teacher who should know better actually named his daughter that.

I have to add that when Little, Dickie appeared on a class enrollment list; we laughed all day.
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KamaAina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-27-10 05:23 PM
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43. Sheriff Hunt of Aiken County, SC
has recently dropped Mike in favor of Michael. :rofl:
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KamaAina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-27-10 05:25 PM
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45. John Boehner
he actually has to put on his website, "Say BAY-ner". :rofl:
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Mendocino Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-28-10 08:11 PM
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75. Even Wiki has the pronunciation for Boner
sorry "Bay-ner". No not sorry;)
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jmowreader Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-28-10 09:14 PM
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81. Mike Crapo has the same kind of thing on his page
It's "cray-poe."

According to Wikipedia, Crapo's from Idaho Falls and is a Mormon, to which all the North Idahoans are sitting there going, "really? I had no idea a Mormon would be from Idaho Falls!" (When I'm elected governor of Idaho I'm going to rename Idaho Falls to "North Ogden." Just think of the economic stimulus to the printing industy alone as every sheet of letterhead in the whole town will need to be reprinted.)
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madinmaryland Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-27-10 05:31 PM
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46. Anyone with these names: Track, Trig, Bristol, Willow, and Piper.
:wtf:

That's just fucked up.
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Mad_Dem_X Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-27-10 09:08 PM
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52. LOL!
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1gobluedem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-01-10 11:16 AM
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89. You know Track's middle name, right?
It's Enfield. Track Enfield. And, yes, it's on purpose.
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cherokeeprogressive Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-27-10 05:36 PM
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47. Either Peter Boyle, actor, or Dick Trickle, NASCAR driver. n/t
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applegrove Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-27-10 08:33 PM
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48. LOL.
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AngryAmish Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-27-10 08:34 PM
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49. A girl from my hometown was Kandy Kane
Why yes, she did have a stagemother.
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pink-o Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-27-10 09:01 PM
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50. I've always been frightened that my name might mean something really filthy in another language...
..and I'll be traveling somewhere, introduce myself, and watch the locals fall on the floor in hysterics. I remember hearing that in Iceland they couldn't announce Aretha over the radio cuz it was dirty in their language. Then my friend told me of a Chinese man who went to Brazil, and his family name meant "asshole" in Portuguese. Personally, I've seen Thai women named Porn Tip and Vietnamese women called Bich.

I went to school with a girl named Ruth Putz. She was Jewish, so she was well-aware why we were giggling at her name! (Hey, at least it wasn't Ruth Schmuck)
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blue neen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-27-10 09:06 PM
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51. Jackie Nolf.
I went to high school with this girl with the very unfortunate name. She got married RIGHT away. :)
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Mad_Dem_X Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-27-10 09:09 PM
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53. My mother's childhood doctor
was named Dr. Butcher. :scared:
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MrMickeysMom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-28-10 01:35 AM
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63. One doc I worked around in the 80's ,,,
... was a Dr. Rape!
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Mad_Dem_X Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-28-10 09:44 AM
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68. !
:yoiks:
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rurallib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-27-10 10:26 PM
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57. In Iowa, the home of girl's HS basketball, all-stater Fonda Dicks
still tops the all-time name list
http://www.luckyshow.org/basketball/Iowa6x6Complete (scroll down to 67 points)
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TheMightyFavog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-01-10 08:22 PM
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99. My speech professor had her as a student.
He told us that the local radio DJs were merciless.
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Kali Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-28-10 12:10 AM
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59. I SWEAR
we had a well man named Dick Swisher.
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Kat45 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-28-10 12:32 AM
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60. Can't forget Mike Hunt.
Someone posted a picture (last year?) of a campaign sign for a Mike Hunt running for some office.
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KamaAina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-28-10 10:33 PM
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82. That would be Sheriff of Aiken County, SC
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=105&topic_id=9273070&mesg_id=9273905

these days, he goes by "Michael". :P
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WCGreen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-28-10 12:35 AM
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61. There was a woman in the Cleveland Phone Book back in the '60;s
when I was a kid...

Her name was Omma Bottum.

We called her a couple times.
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Lil Missy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-28-10 12:52 AM
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62. Seymore Butts
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MrMickeysMom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-28-10 01:38 AM
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64. Then there were the Cable sisters I attended high school with...
The older sister was Honeymoon and the one a year younger was named Anniversary.
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velvet Donating Member (950 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-28-10 08:03 AM
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66. Richard Face
He was a member of the NSW state parliament a few years ago. (NSFW?)

An old boyfriend of mine got his vasectomy from a Dr. Cox.

But here's my favourite, for sheer poetic extravagance - my dad knew a guy who rejoiced in the name of Jack Lillicrap. Ain't that beautiful in a life-affirming flower-on-a-dungheap sorta way?
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Urban Prairie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-28-10 09:12 AM
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67. Although this guy's name didn't have a connotation to genitalia
Mr. B. P. Inkpen was an employee with the Penn Central RR/Conrail in the Michigan Central Station while I worked there in the mid-70s through the early 80s. He of course worked in an accounting department. He used his initials only, and I never discovered what his full name (that is, IF he had a first and middle name) was.
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av8rdave Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-28-10 06:53 PM
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71. I know the thread is about real names, but....
When I was in the military, we always had "TDY names" on our name tags (they were held to the flight suit with velcro) whenever we were at another base, just in case we "accidentally" did something inappropriate or distasteful. (I was a lot younger then).

Some of them were pretty creative:

Dick Gozinya

Conny Lingus

Phil Ashio

Craven Moorehead

Heywood Jablomi

A. V. Ator

Ben Dover
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MiddleFingerMom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-28-10 08:21 PM
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76. Cigarettes were UBERcheap when I was in the Army overseas...
.
$1.80 a carton.
.
No, that's not a typo. But you were rationed to 5 cartons/month.
.
You could buy cigarettes by the pack at places like the bowling alley or
snack bar (I think), but you had to sign for them that you weren't buying
more than (???)/day.
.
Richard Nixon and Mickey Mouse were real chimneys back in those days.
.
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av8rdave Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-28-10 09:14 PM
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80. To this day,
I still sign limo slips as Ben Dover.
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RainDog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-28-10 06:58 PM
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72. oh
:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

thank you all for making me laugh so hard I cried.

an optometrist in my town was named Stephen I. Ball. that was how he had all his info listed.
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Odin2005 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-28-10 07:07 PM
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73. Ben Dover and Eileen Dover.
:evilgrin:
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MiddleFingerMom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-28-10 08:30 PM
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77. Bart Simpson's prank calls to Moe, the bartender...
.
... asking for non-existent customers. The best one was Amanda Huggenkiss.
.
Moe, loudly in the bar: "I NEED AMANDA HUGGENKISS!!!"
.
Worked third shift at a call center 20 years ago. Had a real jerk
call -- a REAL JERK, arrogant and abusive... he had TONS of literature mailed
to him at his home address -- somehow under the name of "Dick Head".
.
He brought smoke down on us from the parent office, but they never could pin
the blame as the person who had done it logged in under a dummy name.
.
We all knew about it. Funniest thing was that it was our shift supervisor.
.
:rofl:
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Initech Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-28-10 08:57 PM
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79. There's a guy who was on the USA Men's hockey team named Harry Johnson
Seriously if I had that name I wouldn't be playing hockey, I'd be making pornos.
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Manifestor_of_Light Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-01-10 02:05 AM
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83. A guy in the Navy---these are all TRUE
who lived in Sand Springs, OK.

His name was Robert Stains.

He was in the Navy. Therefore, he was:

Seaman Stains.


:rofl: :rofl:

Engineering firm:
"Paging Jack Hoff, Jack Hoff"
Draftsman: "Sorry, not now, I'M BUSY!!!"


:rofl: :rofl:

I had two teachers in high school named Mrs. Olive Apple and Mrs. Violet Lavender.

:rofl: :rofl:

Our local doc is named Dr. Cutshaw. I wouldn't go to him but that's another issue.

:rofl: :rofl:

My mom went to a dentist named Dr. Duncan Blades.

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abq e streeter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-01-10 02:16 AM
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85. Former local triple A ballplayer with the last name of Stuckenscheider
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krispos42 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-01-10 02:24 AM
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86. At my old job, we had a customer
Aneal Mistri


Pronounced "Ah-neel", of course...

*snicker*
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old mark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-01-10 06:54 AM
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87. I once saw a dentist named Dr. Groaner.....nt
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mikeytherat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-01-10 11:00 AM
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88. Former member of Elizabeth City (NC) council: Anita Hummer
And I went to junior high with Jack Frost and Penny Fortune.

mikey_the_rat
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foxfeet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-01-10 11:17 AM
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90. Local resident Verna Bigbeaver.
She is Native American, I believe, which would provide a bit of context.
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Posteritatis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-01-10 01:39 PM
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93. I don't feel so bad about going to junior high with a James Kirk anymore. (nt)
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geardaddy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-01-10 03:15 PM
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95. My mom's neighbor is ...
Dick Tickle.
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Quezacoatl Donating Member (105 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-01-10 03:59 PM
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97. When I was growing up my family doctor's name was

Dr Death but he pronounced it Deeth.
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Shell Beau Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-01-10 08:19 PM
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98. I knew a Linda and Harry Dick.
The daughter's name was Micah. She legally changed her last name though. Didn't get married, just dropped the Dick, so to speak. :P
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