Great Real Names

Among ilxen, Ned and Matos and Martin and Lara have damn cool names, and if I'm remembering Ally's full name correctly, she sounds like a Barbara Stanwyck character.

ps he is a dick

anyway.. i used to work for a multinational company which had a searchable online name and address book. So we used to have office competitions to find the best names..

So. here we go with some of the best (and these are real employees)

Nick Sex
Shirley Shallow
Tory S Gaylord
Ricardo Cunto
Eduardo Bastardo
Eric Cartman
Mindy Smelkinson

there were loads more but i can't remember them right now...

He was a great authour, too.

Not as crowd-pleasing perhaps, but there's a statue in Madison Square in New York of a man named Roscoe Conkling.

-- jess

Oh, and my middle school band director was named Rufus Long.

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

Geoffrey Stuart Cannon is such a bizarre formal name sometimes I can't really believe it's mine (heh "feeling slightly disconnected from one's own name c/d")

RAGGETT: "Tell me where's your fancy bread.
I need it for me, and I'm called Ned."

Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, Lord Dunsany

Seconding Fletrjet on both the name and his writing.

Working at a university as I do, I've come across many a mysteriously cool name. Current favorites, with slight non-google alterations (as these are folks I am currently having to bill for late books): the very Thai (I believe) Nar1n Charanvattank1t, the quite Scottish yet somehow naughty 1an Mu1r Duckles and the prime winner, someone I can only guess is from an Arabic/Dutch family of some sort, Azareen Vandervl1et Oloom1.

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.

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.

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

Mr Dickie & Miss K Titmus

Dick Wetmore, jazz fiddler

Sir Bentley Purchase, British physician and barrister.

what type of car did he drive

Maurer Maurer

Dear Santa, You better bring me what I want or when I see you I will take your head off. Hoping to get my stuff. Your loving kid, Hexie Bunsclos

Indiana1910

— R.L. Ripples (@TweetsofOld) December 23, 2018

Stormie Omartian - great name, but could be improved by an apostrophe.

Née Stormie Sherk.

In 1880 there were 8 Monkydick families living in Ohio. This was 100% of all the recorded Monkydicks in the USA.

mike tribe

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-nepal-crash-idUSKCN1PM0IC
Buddhisagar Lamichhane

Tshepang Lekhonkhobe

Rimmer Mulder

Anna Croissant-Rust

that is good

I went to a native California plant garden tour today and the expert there (not the garden owner) was named Orchid Black. I didn't have the nerve t o ask her if that was her real name or her online identity. At first I thought that she picked the name from that UK series but when I got home and googled it I saw that the series is Orphan Black. In my search I found that there are indeed black orchids, so maybe Mr and Mrs Black named their daughter Orchid.

http://www.wallpapers13.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Black-Orchid-Flower-Pictures.jpg

https://nativesanctuary.wordpress.com/

Horticulture is an absolute treasure trove of nominative determinism. Clay Jones, Pippa Greenwood and Bob Flowerdew are/were all regular panellists on the BBC’s Gardener’s Question Time radio programme.

I had a grade 4 student from Africa about 20 years ago whose name was Suyi Georgewill. He went on to have some success in track & field:

http://southernmiss.com/roster.aspx?rp_id=3816

Not sure how he felt about baseball or Ronald Reagan.

Tamerlin Godley just announced a campaign for city council here.

the local bishop when i was growing up (later to resign due to, surprise surprise, mishandling of sexual abuse allegations) was called Bishop Devine

https://deadspin.com/name-of-the-year-first-round-sithole-regional-1833746158

Pulling for a Truman Peyote v. Jizyah Shorts final

truman lost to storm duck! making the next round vs syncere friends

rigged

Deicide Huxtable ftw

in a just world he would now have a clear path

or...she?

Yes, she! :)

Within a few weeks of starting my first call-centre job I took a call from a 'Ramjam Funkyboogaloo-Smythe', which I was certain was a stitch up by one of my colleagues. I totally forgot about this for decades until this thread appeared, and a quick google has proved that:

1. The guy very much exists, and is a semi-pro sabre fencer.
2. One of his kids has the most badass name ever. I present to you:
https://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Determinism_and_Moral_Responsibility.html?id=lsoeswEACAAJ&redir_esc=y

man i really need to know how that name happens now

not sure which thread to post this on, but i've now been looped into several emails with T1lly Dunk

ME: you seen this baseball player?
YOU: nah, is he good?
ME: click for name

loool

Devon....Bling? Haha

https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2019/03/04/1745973/0/en/Columbus-Announces-Rock-Lefrançois-as-President-and-CEO.html

oh that link isn't working right. Columbus is a gold mining company. the CEO is called Rock Lefrancois

... to the tune of "Rock the Casbah" obv.

Marnix De Cat

what a corker! v apt that he's a countertenor too https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/p__/images/e/e8/Felix_The_Cat.png/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/350?cb=20171228095408&path-prefix=protagonist

Final Four:

—Storm Duck
—Pope Thrower
—Jizyah Shorts
—Chastity Gooch-Fant

https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--K3_RATwV--/c_scale,dpr_2.0,f_auto,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/i7ivorfl7uiolw5x96db.png

pouring one out for general booty

Reading a biography of Lester B. Pearson, within the space of a few pages I was introduced to:

Gladwyn Jebb
J. W. Pickersgill
Hume Wrong

The ability to cook and bake with the liquid from canned beans was discovered only two years ago by Goose Wohlt, a vegan American software engineer who was attempting to create eggless meringues for his mother's Passover seder. Wohlt found that the liquid from garbanzo beans, or chickpeas, could be whipped and used as an egg replacer. He called the bean liquid aquafaba

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nestor_El_Maestro

As the major title winners struggled to take advantage, Johnson was joined on five under by relatively unknown Americans Harold Varner III (67) and Luke List (69) and Thailand's Jazz Janewattananond (67).

that's 3 for 3 imo

Dr Marijuana Pepsi

http://joy105.com/woman-named-marijuana-pepsi-who-refused-to-change-her-name-earns-her-ph-d-after-completing-dissertation-on-black-names/

kudos

it's the "Dad, why was I named Rose?" "Because your mother loves Roses" meme come to life

Hello, my name is Tito Bosnia. In the last few days, the identity of my name has been viral and widely spoken in the media and social media in Bosnia-Herzegovina

First of all, I would like to confirm that my name is original and certified in my Certificate of Birth

— bosnia tito (@iybos) June 30, 2019

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruud_Brood

Ruud Brood, manager of NAC Breda

Had an email from R0xy Rhodes.

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