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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

Washington Munoz

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 21 June 2003 12:46 (9 years ago) Permalink

junior high students I taught in NYC:
Fithi Asfaha
Claribel Torres
Will Beans
Saul Schulman (not such a wacky name but ace because he was such a great basketball player he earned the nickname "Soul" which makes it into Saul "Soul" Schulman which you will admit is the best name ever)
Yajaira Chanlatte
Yuki Kokubo

― Neudonym, Saturday, 21 June 2003 12:50 (9 years ago) Permalink

Saul "Soul"

Was he a member of the Saul "Soul" Orchestra?

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 21 June 2003 13:40 (9 years ago) Permalink

as a 4'6" junior high point guard, he was both nice and naasty

― Neudonym, Saturday, 21 June 2003 13:42 (9 years ago) Permalink

6 months pass...

More names from a day's worth of data entry:

sk1tch henders0n
jul1a sprunt grumb1es

― Darcus How? (nordicskilla), Friday, 16 January 2004 23:08 (9 years ago) Permalink

4 months pass...

All hail Lieutenant Commander FLEX PLEXICO! (Read towards the end of the article.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 1 June 2004 02:26 (8 years ago) Permalink

Follow your heart and it will lead you to...NORTH KOREA.

And in keeping with the thread's spirit. I know a fellow named Hatteras Hoops. I always thought it was some kind of a nickname until the local paper printed it as such.

― jim wentworth (wench), Tuesday, 1 June 2004 02:37 (8 years ago) Permalink

There's a wide receiver what plays for the Pittsburg Steelers name of Plaxico Burress.

― Lazer Guided Mellow Leee (Leee), Tuesday, 1 June 2004 03:12 (8 years ago) Permalink

I love threads like this, I am reduced to helpless giggling.

I think I mentioned the one time I was at a speech about women in the church, held by Gay Priest, didnt I?

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 1 June 2004 03:31 (8 years ago) Permalink

US Army Lieutenant General Joseph "Keith" Kellogg Jnr.

― Pack Yr Romantic Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 1 June 2004 05:28 (8 years ago) Permalink

4 months pass...

Kenesaw Mountain Landis.

― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 5 October 2004 22:29 (8 years ago) Permalink

Dion DiMucci.

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Wednesday, 6 October 2004 03:43 (8 years ago) Permalink

Suke Driver

― mei (mei), Wednesday, 6 October 2004 12:55 (8 years ago) Permalink

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