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Come on down top Ukranian footballer, Semen Semenko

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 24 April 2003 12:49 (twenty years ago) link

There's a lawyers office I came across once when I was lost (wrong bus route) the partners' names were Hartless and Rich.

― Anna (Anna), Thursday, 24 April 2003 12:50 (twenty years ago) link

Spanish teacher at my middle school = AN1TA D1CK. Her husband's name = H4RRY D1CK. I. SHIT. YOU. NOT.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 24 April 2003 12:51 (twenty years ago) link

God Shamgod
Lucky Smalls works where I do...haven't met him.

― buttch (Oops), Thursday, 24 April 2003 13:48 (twenty years ago) link

There's a hockey player named Miroslav Satan.

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

― Nemo (JND), Thursday, 24 April 2003 13:59 (twenty years ago) link

Rocco Baldelli

― Chris V. (Chris V), Thursday, 24 April 2003 14:06 (twenty years ago) link

Sometimes I love my job, like yesterday when I registered a student named Bo Ning. Shouldn't laugh, but gotta really...

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 24 April 2003 14:16 (twenty years ago) link

At uni, I knew someone named Peter Handler. He didn't even understand why people giggled when they heard his name. He was such a sweet guy, too!

― colette (a2lette), Thursday, 24 April 2003 14:18 (twenty years ago) link

me.

― martin mushrush (mushrush), Thursday, 24 April 2003 14:22 (twenty years ago) link

Rufus Longstockings

-- jess

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

― martin mushrush (mushrush), Thursday, 24 April 2003 14:23 (twenty years ago) link

martin, I like your name!

― hstencil, Thursday, 24 April 2003 14:25 (twenty years ago) link

Hmong names are great! Friend of mine student-taught in a school with heavy Hmong population and there was a kid named Bee Lor, who signed his name with a little cartoon bee, and I think actually did go out and learn a few things about bees, ie "bee lore." Also many Hmong kids have English names that are still literal and descriptive: the girl named "Pretty Flower [xx]"

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")

― g--ff c-nn-n (gcannon), Thursday, 24 April 2003 14:26 (twenty years ago) link

Oh shit how could I forget. When I was a teenager I had a friend named Pendleton Brewster Wickersham III. Nice kid too. Probably a nice guy by now, but it's been a long time...

― martin mushrush (mushrush), Thursday, 24 April 2003 14:28 (twenty years ago) link

and i've always thought the name Raggett was cool. like a Shakespearean vagabond er something.

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.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 24 April 2003 14:46 (twenty years ago) link

he's like the rai beefheart prince!

― g--ff c-nn-n (gcannon), Thursday, 24 April 2003 14:49 (twenty years ago) link

i actually really like the name Martin Skidmore. It sounds noble. Sir Martin Skidmore.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Thursday, 24 April 2003 15:30 (twenty years ago) link

Ransom Williams, an old friend of mine. Sounds like a black detective character in a series of mysery novels.

― Scott Kos (Scott Kos), Thursday, 24 April 2003 16:29 (twenty years ago) link

Best with his actual rank/title: Brigadier General Sylavanus Taco Gilbert (recently fired commandant of the US Air Force Academy).

― Hurlothrumbo (hurlothrumbo), Thursday, 24 April 2003 17:12 (twenty years ago) link

Sorry, make that Sylvanus Taco Gilbert III. Really.

― Hurlothrumbo (hurlothrumbo), Thursday, 24 April 2003 17:13 (twenty years ago) link

Peter Peters, not sure who he is, but he was the keynote speaker at a Prayer Breakfast round these parts.

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 24 April 2003 17:16 (twenty years ago) link

Doing some data entry I ran across "Oral Honeycutt"...

― cprek (cprek), Thursday, 24 April 2003 17:19 (twenty years ago) link

I paid $30 for that one time...

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 24 April 2003 17:20 (twenty years ago) link

You got ripped off.

― cprek (cprek), Thursday, 24 April 2003 17:21 (twenty years ago) link

I know. But I did get the clap. Sort of an added value thing.

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 24 April 2003 17:24 (twenty years ago) link

me to thread!

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

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 years ago) link

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 years ago) link

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 years ago) link

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

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

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

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

old schoolmate: April Blue
friend who blogs: Gwenda Bond

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

Best Names

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

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

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 years ago) link

Names of a couple I encountered while data entering:

Mr Dickie & Miss K Titmus

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

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 years ago) link

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 years ago) link

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 years ago) link

Casper Weinberger

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

ardys outhouse

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

Yakima Canutt (John Wayne's longtime stunt double)

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

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 years ago) link

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 years ago) link

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 years ago) link

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 years ago) link

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 years ago) link

I thought perhaps the father was hstencil.

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

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 years ago) link

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 years ago) link

There's a Velveeta Battle where I work

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

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

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

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Okay so apparently "Fflyn" is like the actual name of a human person and not a Hobbit or Disney fairy or Vulcan or Narnian faun or whatever.

https://wapo.st/47kVYZx

I give up. I. Just. Give. Up. Carry on without me.

― Oh I believe in Yetis' Day (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 17 November 2023 12:59 (four months ago) link

Ff- is a pretty standard way to begin a Welsh name.

― Madchen, Friday, 17 November 2023 13:22 (four months ago) link

It makes more of a regular f sound since a single f sounds more like a v.

― Shifty Henry’s Swing Club (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 17 November 2023 13:40 (four months ago) link

So ff is a letter in its own right, after f and before g and ng, which follows g.

― Shifty Henry’s Swing Club (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 17 November 2023 13:42 (four months ago) link

Ok. Apologies for the flippant tone.

(But privately I do kinda sorta want to believe that hobbits and leprechauns walk among us.)

― Oh I believe in Yetis' Day (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 17 November 2023 14:08 (four months ago) link

No worries. I believe Welsh was one of the languages Tolkien was inspired by when he came up with Elvish.

― Shifty Henry’s Swing Club (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 17 November 2023 14:40 (four months ago) link

Okay so for some reason I was googling former Vice President Daniel Tompkins.*

Found this wikigem:

Mangle Minthorne, an assistant alderman of New York City. The couple had eight children, including Arietta Minthorn Tompkins (born July 31, 1800), who married a son of Smith Thompson in 1818, and (Mangle) Minthorne Tompkins (December)

*= Probably because Christmas is coming and Daniel D. Tompkins is mentioned in "Miracle in 34th Street," which is one of the very few Christmas movies that I find even tolerable.

― Oh I believe in Yetis' Day (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 22 November 2023 02:05 (four months ago) link

Okay sorry for the digression but seriously: Mangle Minthorne.

Mangle. Minthorne.

Of the New York Minthornes.

Not to be confused with Mangle Minthorne Tompkins, who was a completely different New York politician.

― Oh I believe in Yetis' Day (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 22 November 2023 02:08 (four months ago) link

Gay Wimp

Kansas State Census, 1915
— Actual Names (@ActualNames1) November 23, 2023

― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Friday, 24 November 2023 02:53 (four months ago) link

abysmal real names

― Josefa, Friday, 24 November 2023 03:08 (four months ago) link

...is that mint/horne or minth/orne?

― m0stly clean (Slowsquatch), Friday, 24 November 2023 06:32 (four months ago) link

Cuthbert Girdlestone

― Tapioca by Jean Sibelius (Boring, Maryland), Friday, 8 December 2023 02:14 (four months ago) link

R4ndy M4ss4gee

― Expansion to Mackerel (Boring, Maryland), Sunday, 10 December 2023 20:43 (four months ago) link

Chiquita Seaborne

― CthulhuLululemon (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 11 December 2023 22:49 (four months ago) link

Altany Craik

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/dec/13/labour-councillor-altany-craik-quits-selection-race-after-concerns-over-sexy-satanic-novels

― Free Ass Ange (Tom D.), Wednesday, 13 December 2023 14:21 (four months ago) link

Ulva Pippy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_MacDonald_(actor)

― Nine Inch Males (Tom D.), Tuesday, 19 December 2023 21:35 (three months ago) link

Marcel Peeper

https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/NagAAOSwC9hcSv~~/s-l1200.webp

― Nine Inch Males (Tom D.), Wednesday, 20 December 2023 09:54 (three months ago) link

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

― budo jeru, Wednesday, 20 December 2023 15:15 (three months ago) link

I may have mentioned that I have a friend whose name is S e r e n e T i c k l e. I only just now learned that she's from P o u l t o n le F y l d e, which just makes it better.

― CthulhuLululemon (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 26 December 2023 04:59 (three months ago) link

Bailey Zappe

― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 26 December 2023 20:16 (three months ago) link

three weeks pass...

Cherokee Pilkington

― Bulky Pee Pants (Tom D.), Tuesday, 16 January 2024 07:28 (three months ago) link

Enjoyed watching Thelonius Aasgard playing alongside Becket Godo for Wigan the other week.

― Piedie Gimbel, Tuesday, 16 January 2024 09:45 (three months ago) link

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GEQBpldXgAAWEBo?format=jpg&name=small

― mookieproof, Saturday, 20 January 2024 23:36 (two months ago) link

Zé_Turbo

― anvil, Saturday, 20 January 2024 23:52 (two months ago) link

Wa-Ho-Thuk

― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Sunday, 21 January 2024 00:12 (two months ago) link

two weeks pass...

Avalon Fast
Kansas Bowling

Two women filmmakers

― nickn, Thursday, 8 February 2024 07:13 (two months ago) link

Today I learned that Mark Meadows has a lawyer named George J. Terwilliger III.

― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 8 February 2024 13:53 (two months ago) link

Richard Sheridan Patrick Michael Aloysius Franklin Bowling

― The British Boy of Film Classification (Tom D.), Monday, 12 February 2024 10:24 (two months ago) link

one of the developers of human in-vitro fertilisation was called Patrick Steptoe - a name I thought was a fictional creation by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson until today!

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

― Grandpont Genie, Friday, 16 February 2024 09:14 (two months ago) link

two weeks pass...

Guy Numbers

― from a prominent family of bassoon players (Boring, Maryland), Wednesday, 6 March 2024 21:48 (one month ago) link

Apparently there is a TN House Rep named Monty Fritts, that's pretty good. But I had an Uber driver over the weekend named Artiston Leatherbury. That rules.

― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 14 March 2024 18:15 (one month ago) link

F@lon Hard3n

― CEO Greedwagon (Neanderthal), Thursday, 14 March 2024 18:21 (one month ago) link

three weeks pass...

weaver & textile historian Rabbit Goody

― Andy the Grasshopper, Monday, 8 April 2024 19:03 (one week ago) link

is this thread deindexed lol

― music for A★TEENS’ musicians (Stevie D(eux)), Friday, 12 April 2024 15:43 (four days ago) link

I'm sure Rabbit would be delighted to discover people think they have a great name.

― My God's got no nose... (Tom D.), Friday, 12 April 2024 15:47 (four days ago) link

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