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LincolnMcGrath Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-09-04 10:18 AM
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Painful Names.....
From LBN <Lexington Mayor John Fagot>

From web <Mrs Belcher Wack Wack and then married his brother]>
<Humperdink Fangboner, Lumber Dealer, Sandusky, Ohio.>




http://f2.org/humour/language/oddnames.html
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thom1102 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-09-04 10:19 AM
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1. My brother went to school with Dallas Dallas...
no kidding
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grannylib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-09-04 10:23 AM
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2. Here are some good ones from when I worked in a printing company
Edited on Tue Mar-09-04 10:24 AM by grannylib
(wedding invites, stationery, etc.)

Paul Peniston
Ginger Snapp
Scott Tissue
Harry Dick (wouldn't you insist on Harold if this were you??)
Robin Sparrow
Mary Christmas


On Edit: I also know an electrician whose name is Voltmer, hee hee
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St. Jarvitude Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-09-04 10:27 PM
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37. Hey, Voltmer is my great grandmother's maiden name!
Do you know if it's very common?
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LynneSin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-09-04 10:24 AM
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3. I met a Peter Wack once
Can you imagine him in homeroom?

Wack, Peter
Wack, Peter are you there
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meegbear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-09-04 10:27 AM
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4. A great one from the National Lampoon True Facts issue
A woman in the Weddings section having her lastname change from Dickman to Cockman. Why bother?
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RFKHumphreyObama Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-09-04 10:31 AM
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5. In NSW Australia they used to have a minister named Richard Face
Leaving aside the problems with abbreviating his first name and attaching it to his second name, he also used to have problems leaving parliamentary question time because the Opposition would always interject "the government's losing Face!"
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ComerPerro Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-09-04 10:33 AM
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6. My roommate was friends with a guy named
Dick Dangles


I am not kidding
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dolo amber Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-09-04 10:51 AM
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7. I had a Harry Dangler
Edited on Tue Mar-09-04 10:52 AM by dolo amber
for a teacher in high school. :D

Other teachers I had:

Physics professor: Mr. Constant
Biology Teacher: Mr. Wooley

I worked for a market research call center for a while, there was an 'unofficial' name of the day contest...some notables included;

Harry Woodcock
Peter Enright <---My personal fave:D
Dick Sparks (bet he's fun in the dark! :P)
Anita Coughin
Harry Baughs
Iona Virgin
And the all time best: Harry Bunghole. Swear to jeebus. Apparently it was a company in Montreal we were calling and it was pronounced "Bun-jho-lay". :D
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LincolnMcGrath Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-09-04 11:20 AM
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9. "Bun-jho-lay" my a**
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sybylla Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-09-04 10:52 AM
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8. My kids went to a doctor Bohn {pronounced bone}
But I have to say that I came across a deusie in my genealogical research. My SO has a distant cousin named Talleyrand Terwilliger.

Have yet to find a name I thought was more horrid to stick a child with.
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JCMach1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-09-04 11:23 AM
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10. Randy Prude-- was a Repug candidate for Sheriff
Edited on Tue Mar-09-04 11:23 AM by JCMach1
(if I remember correctly)when I lived in Midland, TX
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JCMach1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-09-04 12:40 PM
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17. Sorry, it was County Commissioner
Apparently, he won...

http://www.caprok.net/skrassoc/MCOfficials.html

Only in GW Bush's hometown!
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CanuckAmok Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-09-04 11:29 AM
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11. "Misty Pynappels"
Pronounced "pineapples". I shit you not.
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thom1102 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-09-04 11:35 AM
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13. My partner processed insurance claims...
and one of the people who called in one day said her name was "leh-MAHN-jeh-low" spelled Lemonjello. Another: "PAH-ja-may" spelled Pajama.
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CanuckAmok Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-09-04 11:41 AM
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15. Poor Misty...
I mean, being named "Misty" is unfair enough, but her original last name was Davison. But her mom remarried a guy from Samoa, who legally adopted Misty, so that's how she became "Misty Pynappels".

This is what is meant by 'destiny'. Choose the most likely announcement:

1) "...and the Nobel Prize for Chemistry goes to Doctor Misty Pynappels..."

or

2) "...a-a-a-lright, gentlemen, it's time to put those hairy palms together and welcome to the centre stage, three-time winner of the Miss Nude Oswego cometition, Miss Misty Pynappels!"
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ironflange Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-09-04 11:33 AM
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12. In the 1930's, King George VI visited Canada
With the Queen (later Queen Mum). They took a train tour right across the country; it was a very big event. When they reached Winnipeg, they visited City Hall with the Prime Minister, Mackenzie King, and the mayor of Winnipeg, John Queen. You can easily imagine what went on:

http://www.canada.com/national/features/royalvisit/story.html?id=F71438DE-6D68-443C-AAAD-3A1FDDEB9621



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Lydia Leftcoast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-09-04 11:40 AM
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14. There was a case in Oregon a few years ago
in which some people were murdered by a man named Gurley Crumb.

With a name like Gurley Crumb, no wonder he became murderous!
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regularguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-09-04 11:44 AM
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16. Dick Wacker
Didn't even go by "Richard". He was the football coach when I was an undergrad. Go Profs!
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Reverend_Smitty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-09-04 12:55 PM
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20. A fellow Prof!!!
This is so funny because just the other day I was in anatomy class and the professor was talking about the former coach Dick Wacker! I thought he was kidding but I guess not...btw Im not even sure why this came up in class but its pretty ironic
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regularguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-09-04 01:27 PM
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25. No Shit?!?!
You're a student there right now? I'll Pm ya.
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southerngirlwriter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-09-04 12:42 PM
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18. Rein Alday
Yes, that's pronounced "Rain All Day." A girl I went to school with named Rein married a man named Alday, and didn't even keep her maiden name!!! :wtf:
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greatauntoftriplets Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-09-04 12:48 PM
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19. There was a surgeon in the Chicago area named Dr. Slaughter.
My father worked with a man whose father-in-law was named Harry B. Hynd. And he always used the middle initial.
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adriennel Donating Member (776 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-09-04 12:57 PM
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21. Ms Penny Stoner
my high school chemistry teacher....scary:smoke:
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Katha Donating Member (287 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-09-04 01:12 PM
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22. My father once
dated a girl named Lena Genster.

(Sound it out; you'll get it.)
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Donkeyboy75 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-09-04 01:14 PM
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23. I have a few
Edited on Tue Mar-09-04 01:16 PM by Donkeyboy75
I know a financial advisor who has a client named

"Dick Longerbone" :)

In high school, my pitching coach was

"Harold Butt"

I went to Miami University and there is an alum famously named

"Dick Wonderball"

In San Francisco there resides an unfortunate man with the name of

"Fuk Yu"

Oh yeah, my driving instructor's name was

"Douglas Douglass" We called him Doug squared (yeah, I'm a dork)

My wife's OB-GYN is named "Dr. Buscher"

Man, I met some really weird people growing up in Ohio.

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rockymountaindem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-09-04 01:15 PM
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24. From the immoral philosopher Kosmo Kramer
"A library cop named Bookman? That's like an ice cream man named Cone."
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TheMightyFavog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-09-04 01:51 PM
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26. My theatre and speech prof..
Edited on Tue Mar-09-04 01:53 PM by JonathanChance
Who is in Ukraine on a Fullbright right now once had a Student named Fonda Dicks when he was teaching at the Univerity of Iowa. She was an extremeley talented basketball player. The radio people would have so much fun with her name by saying stuff like "Fonda Dicks had twenty big ones last night" when reporting the High School hoops results.

IIRC, Didn't Norman Lear name one of his daughters Chanda so her name would turn out to be Chanda Lear?

When my borther was going to UW-Stevens Point in the mid 80s, there was a prof there called Dick Faze.
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pagerbear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-09-04 02:24 PM
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27. My best friend in college
....was named Tori Toomer. She got married and is now called Tori Navey.

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LastKnight Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-09-04 02:28 PM
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28. a friend of mine goes to Dr. Funk, seriously.
my dad had a friend named candy... she wound up marrying a guy named Matt Barre... and she actuially took the last name.

thiers a guy in town named mark mcgwire... he works on diamonds... actuial stones, not the ball diamonds

theirs a bunch others

-LK



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pdx_prog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-09-04 02:33 PM
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29. There is a car dealership in New Orleans
that is "Bohn" Ford (pronounced bone). Used to be "Dick Bohn" Ford...
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pdx_prog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-09-04 02:37 PM
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30. There are some crazy African American names...
namely in the south....

Shithead (pronounced shitheed)

Lemonjello
Orangejello
Kmartina

Look under www.rock103.com

there is a section on the main page called "bad baby names".....some are hilarious..:)
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blindpig Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-09-04 02:43 PM
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31. here's a few;
Deluna Walker, Babygirl Jones, Radio Cruell. I kid you not.
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CanuckAmok Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-09-04 03:13 PM
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32. Shona Klitt
How could I have forgotten Shona Klitt?!
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populistmom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-09-04 03:41 PM
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33. My married name is filled with far too much alliteration
Too many S's. The most frightening is when it is said by someone with a lisp. My maiden name was a good one.
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Marius Donating Member (80 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-09-04 03:52 PM
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34. Check-out the name of this law firm and associate...(pic)

"Here's the law firm of Ted B. Lyon. Ted B. Lyon about wrongful death. Ted B. Lyon about pipeline explosions. Ted B. Lyon about pharmaceutical defects. Ted B. Lyon about unsafe products, burns victims…"

Credit: The Tonight Show with Jay Leno and NBC.com.
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henslee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-09-04 04:12 PM
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35. I once met a "Fedwink". I knew a "Doctor Dick". I knew of a "Hy Lowe"
honest!
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GOPisEvil Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-09-04 04:13 PM
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36. Dr. Richard "Dick" Chop, Doctor of Urology...
...located in Austin.
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