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People with funny names

Posted: Mon Jun 30, 2008 9:39 pm
by Prebe
I've been up to this for a while, and it always give me a good laugh. The idea is puerile and pre-adolescent in it's childishness, but it's a good laugh.

Documentation prefered, but not necessary. Let me get the party started with *drumroll*

Latrina Gross

If you join, you can find out whom Latrina is dating and what's on her mind!!!!

I can't help it. Another one:

Faye Kinney. And she's looking for a job. Well, "Faye Kinney!". Perhaps it's more funny for Aussies.
:haha:

Posted: Mon Jun 30, 2008 10:04 pm
by danlo
Richard Head

Posted: Mon Jun 30, 2008 10:38 pm
by Kil Tyme
I know a Richard Gass who does not want to be called "Dick".

Long ago in the Kentucky Mountains I came across a great mountain man name on the mailbox: Hezekiah Wagstaff. Not funny, per se, I suppose, but I do like that name.

Posted: Tue Jul 01, 2008 12:10 am
by Auleliel
I once knew a guy whose first name was Thaddeus, and his middle name was Peter. To avoid being called TP, he called himself Tip.

Posted: Tue Jul 01, 2008 12:36 am
by Cail
I have a cousin named Andrew Stephen Sanders.

Posted: Tue Jul 01, 2008 2:13 am
by Auleliel
Why don't people think about initials when they name their kids?

Posted: Tue Jul 01, 2008 2:15 am
by Cameraman Jenn
How long do you think it will take the grade school kids to get to Pile O Shit for Shiloh Pitt?

Posted: Tue Jul 01, 2008 2:17 am
by Auleliel
Cameraman Jenn wrote:How long do you think it will take the grade school kids to get to Pile O Shit for Shiloh Pitt?
5 minutes. At most.

Posted: Tue Jul 01, 2008 2:19 am
by aliantha
I once knew a kid named Sandra Beach.

In one newsroom where I worked, we used to have a whole list of people with odd names. The only one I can think of right now is the guy who did p.r. for the Pungo Strawberry Festival, whose name was Stuart Cake.

Posted: Tue Jul 01, 2008 2:22 am
by Cameraman Jenn
I went to high school with a guy named Joe Studley the 3rd. I also had a repair shop account when I was working in Boston and the shop was owned by a guy named Dick Manly.

Posted: Tue Jul 01, 2008 2:31 am
by Sunbaneglasses
I have a friend named Raymond Alan Trotter, he does not like being called RAT.

Posted: Tue Jul 01, 2008 5:58 am
by Sorus
There's a Typhnny somewhere in the company I work for. I personally believe a bad Scrabble draw was involved. "Well, it almost spells a name..."

Posted: Tue Jul 01, 2008 6:25 am
by Prebe
Good ones folks!

(A bad scrabble draw... Heh!)

"This is Studley and Manly's body-shop. How may I help you?"

Edit: Not knowin my celebs, I had to Google Shiloh Pitt. Heh! with a venegance. Though it's a shame for the poor kid, that his parents don't have any feeling for the rhytmick switching of syllables. (Yes, yes. There is another puerile joke in there, I just can't make it really good).

(What's the expression for that in English? In Danish the household name is "Bakke Snagvendt", which translates into something like "Valking Reterse")

Posted: Tue Jul 01, 2008 7:09 am
by Holsety
Oh god, oh god.

Knew a kid from high school. Not well but I knew him. Middle name Zipple. Last name Schnitzer.

Zipple Schnitzer. How much imagination do you really need? I feel for the guy, I really do.
Image

Posted: Tue Jul 01, 2008 11:42 am
by Cagliostro
I worked with a very nice gal at a record shop with the surname Growcock. After discussing with her funny names, she showed me an even more unfortunate name in the phone book there; Harold Dickensheets.

Someone I went to school with had the unfortunate name of Quoc Dang. I always thought his name sounded like someone spitting into a spittoon.

Posted: Tue Jul 01, 2008 2:44 pm
by aTOMiC
I figure I'd better before Dan beats me to it. There is a Civil Engineer we have worked with named Anita Wang. No joke.

Posted: Wed Jul 02, 2008 1:59 am
by Tulizar
Great names!

One of my customers was named Richard Richards. Unimaginative parents?

My mom's best friend is Hazel Chestnut.

Can't remember his first name, but another customer's last name was Bytheway. Just seemed a little odd/funny to me.

Posted: Wed Jul 02, 2008 2:13 am
by danlo
Our "PE" instructor in 3rd grade was a fat lady named Mrs. Buttcavaugh.

People with funny names

Posted: Wed Jul 02, 2008 2:16 am
by SleeplessOne
an AFL footballer who plays for Melbourne, one Matthew Bate, always gets a smirk from me ...

I had a patient come into the hospital I work at the other day named Trieu Ly...

Posted: Wed Jul 02, 2008 2:32 am
by lurch
even tho its already been mentioned,,there is an engineer where i work at,,who proudly wears a employee badge announcing his name: Dick Head. What I've noticed over the years, is that he has it renewed quite frequently and keeps the photo badge very clean and he wears it right there at his breast pocket...Sooo..hes like rubbing it in on the rest of us. I mean..here we are in Corporate world,,manditory photo badges and what not,,and this guy is throwing a pie in to our face..Dick Head. I mean.. he once took the same elevator ride as I did,,and it took everything I had to not burst out laffing by the 2nd floor. There was a VP in the elevator with us , who I knew since he was a line manager. At the 3rd floor before he got out, he turned to me and said.."You think you got problems? We got a new President joining us from Georgia in two weeks,,and I got to introduce him to ,,( he nodded towards Dick Head),,"...