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

― ron (ron), Friday, 25 April 2003 06:15 (10 years ago) Permalink

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 (10 years ago) Permalink

Names of a couple I encountered while data entering:

Mr Dickie & Miss K Titmus

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Thursday, 1 May 2003 09:27 (10 years ago) Permalink

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 (10 years ago) Permalink

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 (10 years ago) Permalink

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 (10 years ago) Permalink

Casper Weinberger

― buttch (Oops), Thursday, 1 May 2003 13:38 (10 years ago) Permalink

ardys outhouse

― kephm, Thursday, 1 May 2003 15:41 (10 years ago) Permalink

Yakima Canutt (John Wayne's longtime stunt double)

― Marcel Post (Marcel Post), Thursday, 1 May 2003 16:49 (10 years ago) Permalink

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 (10 years ago) Permalink

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

― Fivvy (Fivvy), Thursday, 1 May 2003 17:22 (10 years ago) Permalink

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 (10 years ago) Permalink

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 (10 years ago) Permalink

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 (10 years ago) Permalink

I thought perhaps the father was hstencil.

― Nicole (Nicole), Thursday, 1 May 2003 18:52 (10 years ago) Permalink

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 (10 years ago) Permalink

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 (10 years ago) Permalink

There's a Velveeta Battle where I work

― Millar (Millar), Thursday, 1 May 2003 21:05 (10 years ago) Permalink

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

― buttch (Oops), Thursday, 1 May 2003 21:07 (10 years ago) Permalink

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 (10 years ago) Permalink

There's also a Janet E Beech1ng-Pieper.

― Millar (Millar), Thursday, 1 May 2003 21:16 (10 years ago) Permalink

Dick Assman!

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 1 May 2003 21:24 (10 years ago) Permalink

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

― buttch (Oops), Thursday, 1 May 2003 21:26 (10 years ago) Permalink

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

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 1 May 2003 21:36 (10 years ago) Permalink

(hee hee "wan exclamation point")

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 1 May 2003 21:36 (10 years ago) Permalink

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 (10 years ago) Permalink

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 (10 years ago) Permalink

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 (10 years ago) Permalink

3 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 (9 years ago) Permalink

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 (9 years ago) Permalink

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 (9 years ago) Permalink

Boutros Boutros Ghali

― DV (dirtyvicar), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 19:13 (9 years ago) Permalink

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 (9 years ago) Permalink

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 (9 years ago) Permalink

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 (9 years ago) Permalink

they might be giants to thread.

― martin m. (mushrush), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 19:39 (9 years ago) Permalink

They pronounced it "Ing" in that song.

― NA. (Nick A.), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 19:43 (9 years ago) Permalink

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 (9 years ago) Permalink

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 (9 years ago) Permalink

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

― M Matos (M Matos), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 19:54 (9 years ago) Permalink

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 (9 years ago) Permalink

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 (9 years ago) Permalink

3 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 (9 years ago) Permalink

Isambard Kingdom Brunel

― rener (rener), Friday, 20 June 2003 12:04 (9 years ago) Permalink

Isambard Kingdom Brunel.

― rener (rener), Friday, 20 June 2003 12:04 (9 years ago) Permalink

wi wi wang

― Tad (llamasfur), Saturday, 21 June 2003 12:13 (9 years ago) Permalink

went to school with a guy named Vaughn Buffalo
had a college roommate named Wister Walcott
there's always Judge Learned Hand (supreme ct. justice and baseball commissioner) and Thelonious Sphere Monk
my wife claims to have known a girl named Crystal Lear whose middle name was (wait for it) Shanda

― Neudonym, Saturday, 21 June 2003 12:35 (9 years ago) Permalink

actually, learned hand never made it to the U.S. Supreme Ct. -- he was stalled at the 2d Cir. Court of Appeals. but it is a great name for a judge (is tracer any relation?)

― Tad (llamasfur), Saturday, 21 June 2003 12:37 (9 years ago) Permalink

lasagna jones

― Tad (llamasfur), Saturday, 21 June 2003 12:38 (9 years ago) Permalink

I bow before Tad's knowledge of the career trajectory of Learned Hand

― Neudonym, Saturday, 21 June 2003 12:41 (9 years ago) Permalink

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― Madchen, Tuesday, 7 May 2013 14:54 (2 weeks ago) Permalink

I liked this piece about "NPR names":
http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2013/05/why-do-npr-reporters-have-such-great-names/275493/

― jaymc, Tuesday, 7 May 2013 14:59 (2 weeks ago) Permalink

a guy whose actual surname is 'semen'

― the Quim of Bendigo (Autumn Almanac), Monday, 20 May 2013 07:21 (6 days ago) Permalink

New person in our office with surname Van Kuyk pronounced like ... well, yeah.

― Madchen, Monday, 20 May 2013 07:52 (6 days ago) Permalink

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