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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

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 years ago) link

There's also a Janet E Beech1ng-Pieper.

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

Dick Assman!

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

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

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

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

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

(hee hee "wan exclamation point")

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

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 years ago) link

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 years ago) link

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 years ago) link

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 years ago) link

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 years ago) link

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 years ago) link

Boutros Boutros Ghali

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

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 years ago) link

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 years ago) link

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 years ago) link

they might be giants to thread.

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

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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 (six 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 (six days ago) link

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