ha yeah it's kind of fun to mentally pronounce that with a phoney hollywood southern drawl
― rob, Tuesday, 30 June 2020 17:29 (three years ago) link
Chad Wolf
― rob, Friday, 17 July 2020 18:45 (three years ago) link
lol
― singular wolf erotica producer (Hadrian VIII), Friday, 17 July 2020 21:07 (three years ago) link
Theodore Yoho
― Sonny Shamrock (Tom D.), Tuesday, 21 July 2020 16:26 (three years ago) link
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubert_Blaine_Wolfeschlegelsteinhausenbergerdorff_Sr.
Hubert Blaine Wolfeschlegelsteinhausenbergerdorff Sr. (a.k.a. Hubert Wolfstern,[2] Hubert B. Wolfe + 988 Sr.,[3] Hubert Blaine Wolfe+585 Sr.,[4] and Hubert Blaine Wolfe+590 Sr.,[5] among others) is the abbreviated name of a German-born American typesetter who has held the record for the longest personal name ever used. Hubert's name is made up from 27 names. Each of his 26 given names starts with a different letter of the English alphabet in alphabetical order; these are followed by an enormously long single-word surname. The exact length and spelling of his name has been a subject of considerable confusion due in part to its various renderings over the years, many of which are plagued by typographical errors. One of the longest and most reliable published versions, with a 988-letter surname, is as follows:
Adolph Blaine Charles David Earl Frederick Gerald Hubert Irvin John Kenneth Lloyd Martin Nero Oliver Paul Quincy Randolph Sherman Thomas Uncas Victor William Xerxes Yancy Zeus Wolfeschlegelsteinhausenbergerdorffwelchevoralternwarengewissenhaftschaferswessenschafewarenwohlgepflegeundsorgfaltigkeitbeschutzenvorangreifendurchihrraubgierigfeindewelchevoralternzwolfhunderttausendjahresvorandieerscheinenvonderersteerdemenschderraumschiffgenachtmittungsteinundsiebeniridiumelektrischmotorsgebrauchlichtalsseinursprungvonkraftgestartseinlangefahrthinzwischensternartigraumaufdersuchennachbarschaftdersternwelchegehabtbewohnbarplanetenkreisedrehensichundwohinderneuerassevonverstandigmenschlichkeitkonntefortpflanzenundsicherfreuenanlebenslanglichfreudeundruhemitnichteinfurchtvorangreifenvorandererintelligentgeschopfsvonhinzwischensternartigraum Sr.[3]
― With deep regret I remove my bookmark from this thread (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Sunday, 2 August 2020 13:31 (three years ago) link
his name is my name too
― XVI Pedicabo eam (Neanderthal), Sunday, 2 August 2020 13:42 (three years ago) link
https://youtube/yYMRjnM6j6w
― Sonny Shamrock (Tom D.), Sunday, 2 August 2020 13:45 (three years ago) link
Ah, I remember memorizing his name (up to and including ...dorff) from the Guinness Book of Records as a kid!
― anatol_merklich, Sunday, 2 August 2020 14:38 (three years ago) link
We are all Hubert Blaine Wolfeschlegelsteinhausenbergerdorff Sr.
― nickn, Sunday, 2 August 2020 17:31 (three years ago) link
... implies the existence of Jr, poor kid
― lukas, Sunday, 2 August 2020 17:44 (three years ago) link
Wolfeschlegelsteinhausenbergerdorff claimed that his great-grandfather composed the surname in the 19th century, when German Jews were obliged to take a second name.[24] In some printings of the above-noted AP wire story, Wolfeschlegelsteinhausenbergerdorff himself provided the following explanation of his prodigious surname:[25]It tells a story of a wolf-killer, a resident of a stonehouse in a village, whose ancestors were conscientious shepherds whose sheep were well fed and carefully guarded against attack by ferocious enemies and whose ancestors 1,200,000 years before the first earth man, in a space ship made with tungsten and seven iridium motors and using light as a source of power, started a long journey across interstellar space, searching for a star around which was an inhabitable planet where they could establish a new race of intelligent mankind and where they would live long, happy lives and be free from attack by other intelligentsia from the outer space from whence they came.
It tells a story of a wolf-killer, a resident of a stonehouse in a village, whose ancestors were conscientious shepherds whose sheep were well fed and carefully guarded against attack by ferocious enemies and whose ancestors 1,200,000 years before the first earth man, in a space ship made with tungsten and seven iridium motors and using light as a source of power, started a long journey across interstellar space, searching for a star around which was an inhabitable planet where they could establish a new race of intelligent mankind and where they would live long, happy lives and be free from attack by other intelligentsia from the outer space from whence they came.
we're in the wrong "real names" thread!
― mise róna (seandalai), Monday, 10 August 2020 00:01 (three years ago) link
I met Abbie Downton the other day
― Maresn3st, Monday, 10 August 2020 11:09 (three years ago) link
At a drag show?
― nickn, Monday, 10 August 2020 17:17 (three years ago) link
Christopher Hollister Trump-Retchin
― With deep regret I remove my bookmark from this thread (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Sunday, 16 August 2020 09:03 (three years ago) link
Madison Brengle
― Chip-vill-A (imago), Tuesday, 6 October 2020 18:39 (three years ago) link
Rookie of the year in Syracuse AA-ball back in 2016 but never developed any pop in his bat. Starting to think seriously about that dealership in Tampa his former hitting coach has been bugging him about, says he can name it Brengle Chevy if he wants.
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 6 October 2020 20:09 (three years ago) link
Madison Brengle is in fact a female tennis player who's been accused of match-fixing. So you're not too far off
― Chip-vill-A (imago), Tuesday, 6 October 2020 22:35 (three years ago) link
I knew a Brengle family growing up, they were insane evangelical Christians, parents got divorced after father had affair. Both kids were very handsome and totally nuts.
― healthy cocaine off perfect butts (the table is the table), Sunday, 11 October 2020 01:32 (three years ago) link
chick drewrey
You’ve gotta love Mississippi politics. #Bilbo #VoteSnuffy #msleg #mspol pic.twitter.com/ZdhKm4sJFM— J. Robertson (@JRobertsonMS) October 14, 2020
― Give me a Chad Smith-type feel (map), Wednesday, 14 October 2020 21:43 (three years ago) link
marissa hiney
― superdeep borehole (harbl), Wednesday, 21 October 2020 23:00 (three years ago) link
"The big money is the chemistry between the two of them, the combination between the two of them. Look at the day after he picked her, money went gaga, went crazy,” said Dick Harpootlian, a longtime Biden friend and donor.
― Hans Holbein (Chinchilla Volapük), Sunday, 8 November 2020 05:17 (three years ago) link
aw, that’s harsh. I’ll give you Dick, but Harpootliyan is just a nice Armenian name that indicates his ancestors were from the Ottoman town of Harput.
― kiss some penis reference (breastcrawl), Sunday, 8 November 2020 12:20 (three years ago) link
I dunno. You can say that, but it make me envision alien poot harpoons.
― peace, man, Sunday, 8 November 2020 13:14 (three years ago) link
that would make it a cool name tho
― kiss some penis reference (breastcrawl), Sunday, 8 November 2020 13:18 (three years ago) link
Br@y V W33tman
― Peter Greenaway's Fleetwood Mac (S-), Monday, 9 November 2020 07:25 (three years ago) link
Cool name or silver age comic villain?https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dickson_Despommier
The middle initial is just gratuitous though...
― Philip Nunez, Monday, 9 November 2020 18:48 (three years ago) link
Poor little mite.
https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/birthday-card-plea-oscar-jealous-19246362
― Boring blighters bloaters (Tom D.), Sunday, 15 November 2020 12:21 (three years ago) link
Gentry Stein
― tangenttangent, Sunday, 22 November 2020 23:23 (three years ago) link
I just cannot be mature and professional when reading this paperhttps://i.imgur.com/7PkLrxb.png
― assert (MatthewK), Friday, 4 December 2020 00:18 (three years ago) link
"Big" Don Abernathy
― early-Woolf semantic prosody (Hadrian VIII), Saturday, 12 December 2020 05:19 (three years ago) link
"Gabb" Don Abernebbthy
― Lover of Nixon (or LON for short) (Neanderthal), Saturday, 12 December 2020 05:23 (three years ago) link
Nobody knows what that’s even in reference to.
― “Big” Don Abernathy, Saturday, 12 December 2020 05:30 (three years ago) link
Lol
― healthy cocaine off perfect butts (the table is the table), Saturday, 12 December 2020 13:04 (three years ago) link
assert (MatthewK) - Now I've got the Shel Silverstein song "I'm Being Eaten by a Boa Constrictor" stuck in my head.
― Hideous Lump, Saturday, 12 December 2020 15:08 (three years ago) link
My oldest granddaughter Christie Nicklaus – my son Jack’s 2nd-oldest child – just married Todger Strunk. What a beautiful wedding and an even more beautiful couple! They look like they were made for each other. Barbara and I wish them happiness and love for an eternity! @CNStrunk pic.twitter.com/lfiVBuPheu— Jack Nicklaus (@jacknicklaus) December 14, 2020
― you are like a scampicane, there's calm in your fries (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 15 December 2020 08:18 (three years ago) link
So abysmal it's gone viral, but perhaps slightly too colourful and prurient for this thread's true purpose
― imago, Tuesday, 15 December 2020 11:31 (three years ago) link
The surname really makes it though.
― imago, Tuesday, 15 December 2020 11:32 (three years ago) link
strunk so white
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 15 December 2020 15:10 (three years ago) link
Motherfuckers wanna fine em
― Lover of Nixon (or LON for short) (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 15 December 2020 15:11 (three years ago) link
Police have launched a manhunt for a 28-year-old wanted on suspicion of the murder of a pensioner in Essex.
Essex police are trying to find Leighton Snook after 83-year-old Donald Ralph was found dead at his home in the village of Aldham, near Colchester, just after 1pm on Tuesday.
― kites aren't fun (NickB), Friday, 1 January 2021 02:32 (three years ago) link
not as flamboyant as most entries here but I just saw a reference to one Mike Michael and come on
(and sorry he's too old for his parents to be Broadcast fans)
― rob, Wednesday, 3 February 2021 23:27 (three years ago) link
Obviously not really fair to highlight names that are only abysmal in English, but nonetheless...
Dylan Cretin
― Waterloo Subset (Tom D.), Saturday, 6 February 2021 20:04 (three years ago) link
Surely the accent aigu's absence makes it alright (not).
― pomenitul, Saturday, 6 February 2021 20:06 (three years ago) link
Jadran Duncumb
― pomenitul, Friday, 12 February 2021 15:50 (three years ago) link
Flavia Piggins
― Luna Schlosser, Thursday, 4 March 2021 15:00 (three years ago) link
atm I work with someone that has the last name H00fard, and I feel like a middle-schooler as I quietly snicker every time I read her name.
― it's like edging for your mind (the table is the table), Thursday, 4 March 2021 17:54 (three years ago) link
We've had a Fr4nk Buzz4rd at work for a few months. No relation to the Frank Chickens as far as I know.
― nickn, Thursday, 4 March 2021 21:07 (three years ago) link
I'm a bit torn on this: for now it feels maybe a bit "poor kid", but it would be awesome if she went on to kick absolutely everybody's butt.
― anatol_merklich, Thursday, 4 March 2021 23:38 (three years ago) link
V3lva L33 Sh3rman
― map ca. 1890 (map), Tuesday, 16 March 2021 19:12 (three years ago) link
Found in the cemetery yesterday: Fanny Mass
― G.A.G.S. (Gophers Against Getting Stuffed) (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 16 March 2021 19:51 (three years ago) link