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me to thread!

― slutsky (slutsky), Thursday, 24 April 2003 17:36 (twenty-three years ago)

I just saw another one: Dune Combs

Also, I saw a guy named John Hancock, which is not all that unusual, but I wonder if he would make his signature an exact forgery of the founding father of the same name.

― cprek (cprek), Thursday, 24 April 2003 18:13 (twenty-three years ago)

Thanks Chris and possibly Tep (he might have meant the other martin). Can't say I'm so keen on Skidmore myself, but I'm used to it.

At work today the person who I was given as a sample that would show a particular system error was Mr Doh. I like to imagine that to say his name correctly you have to slap your forehead.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Thursday, 24 April 2003 20:27 (twenty-three years ago)

hey Martin, Martin is a cool name regardless of which of us he was talking about. It's a good thing at least one Chris thinks that.

― martin mushrush (mushrush), Thursday, 24 April 2003 20:37 (twenty-three years ago)

I like your name too, Martin. It's got a nice rhythm to it.

― slutsky (slutsky), Thursday, 24 April 2003 20:48 (twenty-three years ago)

There was a boatbuilding expert on telly today called Brian Labyrinth.

― Matt (Matt), Thursday, 24 April 2003 20:59 (twenty-three years ago)

old schoolmate: April Blue
friend who blogs: Gwenda Bond

― M Matos (M Matos), Friday, 25 April 2003 06:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Best Names

i loved that thread, largely because spectra got so into it! :)

― ron (ron), Friday, 25 April 2003 06:15 (twenty-three years ago)

There was some important politician or someone back in the mid-nineties who was called Tokyo Sexwhale. And more recently, I was looking through my old school's Friends Reunited page searching for someone and I saw this girl from the class of 2000 who was called Jo King.

― Chriddof (Chriddof), Friday, 25 April 2003 11:51 (twenty-three years ago)

Names of a couple I encountered while data entering:

Mr Dickie & Miss K Titmus

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Thursday, 1 May 2003 09:27 (twenty-three years ago)

sexwhale is pronounced sex - while (with just a hint of the wahl from mark wahlberg) - eh

― mitch lastnamewithheld (mitchlnw), Thursday, 1 May 2003 10:00 (twenty-three years ago)

THere is a Professor Bizzup at Columbia. This produced about 45 minutes straight worth of laughter, of the falling down in the street, unable to breathe kind. "Yo, class, WAAAZZZUP? I'm Professa Bizzup, fo' sheezy..." Oh my god, I'm laughing again.

― Ally (mlescaut), Thursday, 1 May 2003 13:19 (twenty-three years ago)

I hear crazy names all the time, as I work in customer service and sometimes fundraising. One woman was named Eustachia. Like, the canals in your inner ears. I didn't know whether to laugh or cry.

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Thursday, 1 May 2003 13:27 (twenty-three years ago)

Casper Weinberger

― buttch (Oops), Thursday, 1 May 2003 13:38 (twenty-three years ago)

ardys outhouse

― kephm, Thursday, 1 May 2003 15:41 (twenty-three years ago)

Yakima Canutt (John Wayne's longtime stunt double)

― Marcel Post (Marcel Post), Thursday, 1 May 2003 16:49 (twenty-three years ago)

I know a Casper Weinberger! He lives down the street from me. My favorite names of people I've met:
Shasta Beasterfield
Kentor Olaveason
Kyke Andel
Fern S. Furniss
Dr. Peppers (my lit prof)
Guy Hatzenbeuhler
Zola Roach
Steve Stevens – I love those echoic names. I understand it when it comes from a woman marrying a man (ie Fern Furniss above), but if the kid's last name is Stevens, why give his the first name of Steve? He's stuck with it for life.

― Fivvy (Fivvy), Thursday, 1 May 2003 17:10 (twenty-three years ago)

Also I know a Doug Smith, an overly plain name, but his middle name is ZEBULON.

― Fivvy (Fivvy), Thursday, 1 May 2003 17:22 (twenty-three years ago)

Chriddof, when my family lived in Hong Kong a few years ago, there were these high school kids that had a band called Tokyo Sex Whale. They were pretty good for a high school band.

― Nick A. (Nick A.), Thursday, 1 May 2003 17:24 (twenty-three years ago)

Went to school with a girl who's last name was Sexe (p. "sexy") She was, too.

And I once met a Swedish intern whose last name was Sekse (also pronounced "sexy"). As I remember, he was.

I can't find a direct link, but the Annals of Improbable Research reported on a researcher whose name on his passport literally reads "Odd Person."

― j.lu (j.lu), Thursday, 1 May 2003 17:40 (twenty-three years ago)

I knew another family whose kids were named Happy, Apple, Dimple and Fencil. The dad's inspiration for Fencil's name came when gazing at a pencil.

― Fivvy (Fivvy), Thursday, 1 May 2003 18:51 (twenty-three years ago)

I thought perhaps the father was hstencil.

― Nicole (Nicole), Thursday, 1 May 2003 18:52 (twenty-three years ago)

The other inspirations were a clown named Slappy, an empty bottle of Snapple and a huge pimple.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 1 May 2003 19:09 (twenty-three years ago)

sure i've posted this elsewhere but i know two sets of siblings called alpha & omega
i went to school with what i called 'the atomic family' - the kids were Electron, Positron, Proton & Neutron. Electron goes by Alec now, Positron is Posi (ok nickname) no idea how the other two have dealt with it.

― H (Heruy), Thursday, 1 May 2003 19:38 (twenty-three years ago)

There's a Velveeta Battle where I work

― Millar (Millar), Thursday, 1 May 2003 21:05 (twenty-three years ago)

well, you better hurry up or you might miss it.

― buttch (Oops), Thursday, 1 May 2003 21:07 (twenty-three years ago)

I've met both a Sterling Silver and a Velvet Snow.

There were three brothers in my hometown named Reno, Deno, and Keno.

― David Beckhouse (David Beckhouse), Thursday, 1 May 2003 21:12 (twenty-three years ago)

There's also a Janet E Beech1ng-Pieper.

― Millar (Millar), Thursday, 1 May 2003 21:16 (twenty-three years ago)

Dick Assman!

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 1 May 2003 21:24 (twenty-three years ago)

That is a weird name: more people should end their name w/an exclamation point.

― buttch (Oops), Thursday, 1 May 2003 21:26 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.nationalpost.com/content/features/festivals/080299a.html

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 1 May 2003 21:36 (twenty-three years ago)

(hee hee "wan exclamation point")

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 1 May 2003 21:36 (twenty-three years ago)

i worked with a rod woodcock and a rod grabeldinger.

i am not in the porn industry.

― brian badword (badwords), Friday, 2 May 2003 05:46 (twenty-three years ago)

I can't find a direct link, but the Annals of Improbable Research reported on a researcher whose name on his passport literally reads "Odd Person."

That sounds Scandinavian, for instance Norwegian -- yes indeed! There are also a few people who are named Per Person. And to even out the oddness a bit, there are these people...

― OleM (OleM), Friday, 2 May 2003 06:41 (twenty-three years ago)

Through friends I've also heard about one R3idar Cæsar Lan9balle Par0di, whose last two names literally read like "Longballs Parody".

― OleM (OleM), Friday, 2 May 2003 06:47 (twenty-three years ago)

three weeks pass...

I honest to God just sent a big stack of HTML files to Tim Plate.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 18:09 (twenty-three years ago)

This guy on my street is named Charlie Dickout. I'm not sure if that's how you spell it but it's definitely how you pronounce it.

― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 18:23 (twenty-three years ago)

Laszlo Fuchs, who's a matematician, is one of my faves.

I've met a few people called Miss Ng around Cardiff, how do you say that?

― mei (mei), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 18:33 (twenty-three years ago)

Boutros Boutros Ghali

― DV (dirtyvicar), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 19:13 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh man oh man, RADEK BONK - player for the Ottowa Senators! In fact, hockey players have the highest rate of excellent names of any sport. Bonk's is the only one I can recall.

― Fivvy (Fivvy), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 19:17 (twenty-three years ago)

I think there's probably about a million people named Miss Ng in Vietnam, it's a pretty common Southeast Asian name. Not sure how it's pronounced though, maybe "Ing"?

― NA. (Nick A.), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 19:35 (twenty-three years ago)

No, it's like the end of that, like ung without the vowel at the start.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 19:38 (twenty-three years ago)

they might be giants to thread.

― martin m. (mushrush), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 19:39 (twenty-three years ago)

They pronounced it "Ing" in that song.

― NA. (Nick A.), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 19:43 (twenty-three years ago)

it's more like "eng" with a short "e"

it's pronounced correctly in the song as far as I know. I'm listening to it now, and I know someone with that last name who says it that way too.

― martin m. (mushrush), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 19:47 (twenty-three years ago)

The guy I was at uni with, Yao Ng, pronounced it without any real hint of a vowel at the start of it. (The first name was like yow!)

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 19:52 (twenty-three years ago)

(heh heh, a few people I know have nicknamed me "Boutros")

― M Matos (M Matos), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 19:54 (twenty-three years ago)

My best friend from school, Nellie, has just had a baby daughter, who has been given a name fit for showbiz because of mom and dad's surnames being joined: Bella Wild-Young.

― suzy (suzy), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 20:04 (twenty-three years ago)

Jon Tickle!

Ever since I read one of those Big Brother threads, this name has made laugh. It's just weird.

― Nicole (Nicole), Friday, 30 May 2003 12:57 (twenty-three years ago)

three weeks pass...

Chip Masterbone

This may be the greatest name ever, based on the last name alone.

― Nicole (Nicole), Friday, 20 June 2003 11:32 (twenty-two years ago)

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― sonic catterdales (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 29 May 2026 10:44 (two weeks ago)

Cocks held

― Tom D, focussed with getting on with the job (Tom D.), Friday, 29 May 2026 10:55 (two weeks ago)

Dicks out. Small swing.

― Tim, Friday, 29 May 2026 10:57 (two weeks ago)

Red cheeks for Red Cheek.

― Tom D, focussed with getting on with the job (Tom D.), Friday, 29 May 2026 11:07 (two weeks ago)

Full name Michael Francis Lovell Cocks, Baron Cocks of Hartcliffe

― sonic catterdales (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 29 May 2026 11:17 (two weeks ago)

Great swinging, Cocks!

― . (jamiesummerz), Friday, 29 May 2026 11:19 (two weeks ago)

Late surge

― Buffalo buffalo Springfield buffalo (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 29 May 2026 11:42 (two weeks ago)

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― mookieproof, Saturday, 6 June 2026 03:09 (one week ago)

That reminds me. A while back The Guardian had a feature on Elizabeth Blackadder, painter:
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2026/may/31/elizabeth-blackadder-exhibition-burlingham-gallery-kingsclere

She is "best known for accessible paintings of flowers and cats", which raises the question of whether there are any painters best known for inaccessible, audience-alienating paintings of flowers and cats. Still, I didn't realise that Blackadder was an actual real name. Her mother was called Violet, which is ironic because flowers. Presumably if her mother had been called Lady Chimney Blackadder she would have become a top painter of chimneys, and cats.

Also I remember a story fairly recently. About a sporting event. Or something. One of the participants was called Nasa. It was their first name. But I can't find it. I did however stumble on Nasa Hataoka, professional golfer:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nasa_Hataoka

She actually is named after Nasa, the space programme. That's also a quick way of remembering the difference between an acronym and an initialism. An acronym is a word you can say, whereas an initialism is just a bunch of letters, such as for example FBI or CSA. All you have to do is train yourself, with electricity, to remember that Nasa is an acronym. And not an initialism. You can't call a baby FBI.

No, I found it! The man in question was Sterling Nasa, who stepped in to play piano at a concert where the pianist fell sick:
https://symphony.org/audience-member-steps-in-play-piano-at-la-la-land-screening-with-orchestra/

Nasa is an uncommon Asian surname.

― Ashley Pomeroy, Wednesday, 10 June 2026 17:01 (one week ago)

Blackadder is a Scottish name.

― Tom D, focussed with getting on with the job (Tom D.), Wednesday, 10 June 2026 17:45 (one week ago)

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