Funny Names

[allodwick]

I posted one about Barbara Dwyer another forum and it got me thinking about some other funny names - either real or imagined.

Suppose Heidi Fleiss married Joe Water and hyphenated her last name.

[Ross]

Al help me, I'm slow today. It took me far to long to figure that one out. :eek:

[allodwick]

Say it fast and out loud

[Karlynn]

Al help me, I'm slow today. It took me far to long to figure that one out. :eek:


I'm still trying!:o

[Ross]

Yeah I got it, but it took me a bit because of how I was pronouncing her last name. It just didn't sink in to the tar pit. Trying to think of some others to add here. I've seen some good ones too.

[Emma]

Whoopi Goldberg marrying Peter Cushion!!

Mrs Whoopi .......

hehehehehe

[Karlynn]

OHHHHHHHH! I got it!:rolleyes:

[geebee]

Watch out Mr. Fly.:D :D ;)

[Emma]

Perhaps the Heidi Fleiss one is an american thing cos I'm just not there on that one!

xxx

[allodwick]

How do you kill flies in the UK?

[Emma]

Rolled up newspaper????

[allodwick]

What do you call the rolled up newspaper?

[Emma]

eeeermmm, a whacker?

[allodwick]

A fly s_ _ _ _ _ r

My Cornish grandmother always told me that you should never tell a Cornishman a joke on Saturday because he would laugh in church on Sunday!!!

[Emma]

PMSL!!

Ok Al, I'm with ya now

[Karlynn]

Al - I told my husband the Heidi Fleiss one. He says it's a good thing you're such a great pharmacist/warfarin expert and don't have to rely on standup comedy to earn a living.:o :o :D

[hensylee]

In my daughter's high school year book:

If Linda Black married Steve Bird, she'd be Linda Black Bird.

[momshell7]

There was a kid named Richard Harry,who live down the street from my mom, when she was a kid. He went by Dick. :eek: I am not sure what kind of relationship he had with his parents, but if it was me I would make sure they went to a nursing home when they got old as payback for a lifetime of mental abuse for having such a name!:rolleyes: Makes you wonder what people are thinking when they name their kids. Maybe his mom was still under the influence of drug from childbirth when she named him.

[sue943]

It took me forever too, we say 'warter', not wotter - hence the denseness. :)

[allodwick]

What if Jane Ayre had married Robert Head?

[catwoman]

Check out names in obituaries -- real names are stranger than fiction.

When I worked in the newsroom, one of the city editors had a computer file with odd names. If we encountered an unusual name, we forwarded it to Lou.

Just look through a couple of days' worth of obits and you can start your very own chuckle file.

[Karlynn]

When I taught years ago, I had a student named Franklin Franklin.:confused: :confused: :confused: Apparently the parents thought it was very clever.

We also know someone named Ken Kenny. Once again - what were parents thinking????:confused: :confused: :confused:

I think that often time parents-to-be get caught up with how the whole name sounds, including middle name, and they don't consider breaking it down to see if they like the shortened version. Kenneth Thomas Kenny sounds rather good doesn't it? Little do they know when they send Kenneth Thomas Kenny to Kindergarten, he's going to become Kenny Kenny.:rolleyes:

I would also get a bit perturbed when a parent would send notes to school insisting that I put an end to the other kids calling their precious child by anything but their given name. "It's 'Michael' not 'Mike' or 'Mikey' !" The poor child would then spend so much time correcting kids on what his name was, and I could tell it was because the mother probably had many discussions with him about how his name wasn't 'Mike', it was 'Michael'.

Now I always wished my name had been spelled phonetically. So we chose names for my children that could easily be pronounced after reading it. Fortunately there was George Carlin to make it easy for my husband to remember my name. I answer to just about anything because it gets pretty tiring saying "No it's carlin, not carolyn.":o And then people always get embarrassed that they mispronounced it. To top it off, I had a very unusual maiden name. That's why I married someone with a very common last name.:D

[Missy]

I once knew a fellow whose name was Ralph Outhouse. I think that is about the worst I have heard.

[Maureen]

We have our share of strange names over here too! I know a guy called Brian O'Brien...and another called Dermot McDermott ! Obviously the parents loved their surname so much they wanted to keep on using it :D

Our local veterinary practice has a vet called Mr J Russell....and yes... the J is for JACK !! Wonder if his name inspired him to work with animals :rolleyes:

And confession time now...when we had new victims...oops....I mean new employees in the office, we used to give them the phone number of the local Zoo and have them ask for Mr C Lyons...or the number of the Dog Pound and ask for...yes you guessed it... Mr Jack Russell :D

[allodwick]

My wife says that she was about 11 years old before she realized that her grandfather's first name was Ben. She thought it was his middle name because she never heard him referred to as anything but Thatdam Ben Martin.

There was a family around Moorhead, Iowa named Outhouse.

One of my college professors was named Brien O'Brien - from Australia.

I wonder if Jack Russel was slow at his work (tarried).

My mother claims that she knew a woman whose married name was Rhea Pollster.

[Wise]

I knew a lady named Felicia....she went by Flea. Her maiden name was Leach.

I know a man named Dusty Rhoades. His sister-in-law is Sandy Rhoades.

Also, if Olivia Newton-John had married John Denver she could have gone by Olivia Newton-John Denver. That looks like something from Wheel of Fortune.

This has been a fun thread to read. Thanks.

Wise

[lovejoy]

My first name is Lovejoy, yes it really it is. Growing up, my last name was Phelan pronounced "FEELIN" ! :D I'm sure I've heard every joke and crude comment there is. But I've always liked my name (the Lovejoy part). It gave me a very dry sense of humor.
I liked the name well enough that it is my daughters middle name.
You are all welcome to rty and come up with one I haven't heard.
Lovejoy

[Barb]

A friend took a delivery to a woman named Anita Smoke.

One of my girlfriends had a baby boy and named him Justin, I made a joke by telling her to give him the middle name "Trouble" she laughed......now many years later we always think of how appropriate it would have been.......hahhaha!!!!

[tommy]

No Joke. Somebody gave her parents a bum steer.:rolleyes:

HOGG, IMA (1882-1975). Ima Hogg, philanthropist and patron of the arts, daughter of Sarah Ann (Stinson) and Governor James Stephen Hogg,qv was born in Mineola, Texas, on July 10, 1882.

http://http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/HH/fho16.html

Now there was a legend that she had a sister named Ura.....that's pure fiction.:D

[hpuehler]

This is the funniest here, we have a urologist in this area named Richard Tapper. (Dick Tapper) for all the slow folks!

Heather

[Birky]

We have customers named Jack Knaff and Jack Ator. I hope this isn't too risque but it is true.

[allodwick]

I knew Sandy Beach who had sibs named Rocky and Coral.

The guy who invented the Lear jet had a daughter named Chistal Shanda Lear.

I also knew Rhoda Roan Horse.

[Missy]

I saw on tv just yesterday that Penn Jillette and his wife Emily (he is part of the magician duo of Penn & Teller) will name the baby boy due soon Zolton. They already have a daughter named Moxie CrimeFighter. I wonder why they named her that.

[Karlynn]

I saw on tv just yesterday that Penn Jillette and his wife Emily (he is part of the magician duo of Penn & Teller) will name the baby boy due soon Zolton. They already have a daughter named Moxie CrimeFighter. I wonder why they named her that.

Because they wanted to make sure she was made fun of all the way through grade school???:confused:

[Praline]

I had a student in my first grade class at the beginning of the year whose name was Diabolique which is french for devilish.
A long time ago, we had a little girl whose nickname was Brandi. Her mom remarried and the second husband adopted the girl. His last name was Rudolph.
The names parents give to their children always amazes me.

[JAMES W]

We have a fellow in the area by the name of "Gary Glascock"...plus a gal in our office is named "Kim Hollopeter"....Talk about a stigma...:eek:

[geebee]

I used to work for a company that had a sales rep who thought it was funny to call in to new employees and say his name was Richard Head.
THEN - I actually met a person a few years ago with that very name. He was an older gentleman and I would find it unusual (and cruel) to name a child that in this day and age. However, 60 years ago, I don't think it was an issue.

[allodwick]

One of my students was named Sunset. When people asked her how she got that name, she replied, " I was going to Dawn but I was 12 hours late."

How did I get the name Algha? It was my Dad's name and my grandfather's name. I guess my great-grandma couldn't write too well and was trying for Alpha but she got the stick on the wrong side of the 'p'. I guess she tried again because my grandfather had a younger sister named Alpha.

I fixed the problem by naming my son Matthew.

[Georgia]

OK - I've stayed out of this because . . . well, my maiden name sucked and more than once I walked up on people I didn't know who were laughing at my name. Made me really thick-skinned, however; but you know how teenagers suffer.

My mother's name is Sunshine Fink. And she's 83, so her parents were WAY ahead of the flower children. And of course, she had to go marry a "Fink."

[allodwick]

How about Timothy Buck, II
or
Thomas A. Hawk
or
Ella Funt

[tommy]

There's a guy doing radio advertisements for tax consulting in Dallas.
He goes by Benjamin Dover.
I recall that he used the nickname "Ben" in his first few ads.:eek:

[Lisa in Katy]

There is a doctor in Houston whose name is Dr. Butts. His specialty? Colon & Rectal Surgery, of course.

There was also a doctor in the town where I grew up whose name was Dr. Stork. He didn't quite deliver babies, but close enough, he was a Pediatrician.

[allodwick]

A woman named Toothaker told me that she had a nephew with the same name who was a dentist.

[blessed1416]

Teaching school for 25 years, I had many, many strange student's names. The ones that really stick in my memories are 2 sets of twins. The first set was 2 boys named Pete and Repete..(honestly). Then the other set was a boy and a girl. Apparently, the mother assumed they had already been named by the nurses as they had cards on their cribs labled Male and Female- pronounced in school Moli and Femoli. Sad isn't it that these 4 children are now in their adult years with these names?:o

[Lisa in Katy]

I had a teacher whose name after marrying was Anita Fuchs (actually pronounced Fox, but that's not what I see!) and a friend named Richard Peters (he went by Rick, but I called him Dick). There was a whole family near my hometown with the last name of Rape. You'd think they'd have it legally changed.

[CCRN]

There is a Cardinal Sin somewhere in South America. I also have met a Captain Picard while on Reserve duty. Let's see....Oh, I have also worked with a urology resident Dr. Foley (as in foley catheter). :)

AND my husband has an uncle EDSEL, of all things................

[JimBob]

What if Tuesday Weld married John May III?

[sylviayasgur]

hi all,
we actually had neighbors named (maybe renamed) sage and sunshine rainbow...those were their real names. i think their kids' names were also nature oriented (sky?).
in any case, while on a trip out west one summer we read an article about these former hippie families or groups that were called the "rainbow family".
we assumed that they were once or still were part of this family.

i can't really complain, my maiden name is gruszecki... what were my parents thinking?!

be well all,
sylvia

[allodwick]

My wife met a woman whose maiden name was Crites. Had she been a boy, she was going to be named Jesus. She said that she was so glad that she was a girl.

[azpam]

We had a dentist in town named Dr. Pain. My mother had a distant cousin now deceased named Lily Pond. both true.

[Lisa in Katy]

Al, since I didn't know where to find the original post, just wondering if you know Barb Dwyer or is this just a name you came across. I taught with a Barb Dwyer for 3 years and never even thought about her name. Of course, she was just Barb when I was talking to her directly and Ms. Dwyer when I was talking to the kids, so I'm not sure I ever put it together.

[William]

I had a teacher named Justin Case and went to high school with a Dusty Roads.

[allodwick]

Robin Banks

[baldstuart]

Starring as our town ob/gyn is Dr. Fillerup with Dr. Pugh as the proctologist and Poorman and Badger as our Local Attorneys. And my friend Kelly Kelley married Kelley. So they are now Kelly and Kelley Kelley.:p

[twinmaker]

My husband's name is Stephen Stephenson. Don't know what his parents were thinking. I guess they really liked the Stephen part of the name. Oh, by the way, our daughter's name is Stephanie. My husband chose that. She was our first and I think he thought he'd better have a name sake in case we didn't have a boy. Then we ended up with twin boys. I guess it worked out OK as we couldn't have named them both after him. They have normal names...Matt and Ben. LINDA

[geebee]

I came across this name yesterday: Phillip Crapsey.

William,
Our local county auditor is named Dusty Rhodes.:D

[Mary]

I came across this name yesterday: Phillip Crapsey.

William,
Our local county auditor is named Dusty Rhodes.:D

I know two men named Dusty Rhodes.:p

[imhayley]

If Yoko Ono married Sonny Bono she would be Yoko Ono Bono.:D
Okay one more I know pretty bad hu HA HA!!! I worked at Chuck E. Cheese back in the day and my supervisors name was Art Urine. So I called him Fart Pis_. He was a cool guy too.:D