Funny names thread
Lee Ayrton
For archive purposes really, since AFU grudgingly does the funny names
thing on the rare occasion.
Caught on _First 48_ (a USofA reality-based, documentary-style, true-crime
show): Real adult individual named Royal Cola.
I _think_ that this is the episode that he was seen in:
http://www.aetv.com/the_first_48/first48_episode_guide.jsp?episode=168010
Noticed in a Rocky & Bullwinkle episode in the _Missouri Mish Mash_
(mostly about the fabulous Kerward Derby) series: Nosmo the One Halft,
son of Ughbert that Ugly and Ethelred the Unready, the royal family of the
moon men. The Narrator introduces "Nosmo, king of the moon men..."
See:
http://www.tv-show-guide.com/episodes/49057.html
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Gary G. Taylor
> Noticed in a Rocky & Bullwinkle episode in the _Missouri Mish Mash_
> (mostly about the fabulous Kerward Derby) series: Nosmo the One Halft,
> son of Ughbert that Ugly and Ethelred the Unready, the royal family of the
> moon men. The Narrator introduces "Nosmo, king of the moon men..."
The old "Crusader Rabbit" show had a character named The Raja of
Rinsewater.
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BobMac
> On Mon, 26 Feb 2007 16:26:37 -0500, Lee Ayrton wrote:
>
>
>>Noticed in a Rocky & Bullwinkle episode in the _Missouri Mish Mash_
>>(mostly about the fabulous Kerward Derby) series: Nosmo the One Halft,
>>son of Ughbert that Ugly and Ethelred the Unready, the royal family of the
>>moon men. The Narrator introduces "Nosmo, king of the moon men..."
>
>
> The old "Crusader Rabbit" show had a character named The Raja of
> Rinsewater.
>
"Nobody's ever asked me my name twice," he used to say...
rm
Hatunen
Let's not forget the very real, lovely, and wealthy Ima Hogg.
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Charles Wm. Dimmick
My father was named before that famous Lifeboy Soap commercial,
so his parents saw nothing wrong with the name
Byron Orme Dimmick.
TMOliver
and "Great Books" Jokes....
_Under the Grandstand_ by Seymour Butts
_The Yellow River_ by I. P. Freeley
_The Tiger's Revenge_ by Claude Balls
......and what must have been an entire collection of others, now lost in
the hazy fug of the unrecallable.
TM "Those Fokkers in my 6 O'Clock were Messerschmidts." Oliver
Ralph Jones
_Fifty Yards to the Outhouse_ by Willy Makit...
rj
John Varela
(in article <45e6e83a$0$28092$4c36...@roadrunner.com>):
_Thirty Days in the Saddle_ by Major Asburn
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> On Thu, 1 Mar 2007 09:50:42 -0500, TMOliver wrote
> (in article <45e6e83a$0$28092$4c36...@roadrunner.com>):
>
>> All of this foolishness reminds me of the Seventh Grade, circa 1950 or so,
>> and "Great Books" Jokes....
>>
>> _Under the Grandstand_ by Seymour Butts
>>
>> _The Yellow River_ by I. P. Freeley
>>
>> _The Tiger's Revenge_ by Claude Balls
>>
>> ......and what must have been an entire collection of others, now lost in
>> the hazy fug of the unrecallable.
>>
>> TM "Those Fokkers in my 6 O'Clock were Messerschmidts." Oliver
>
> _Thirty Days in the Saddle_ by Major Asburn
>
Ray
And her apocryphal sister, Ura. I have a feeling this one was vectored
by Ann Landers.
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ljd
> Hatunen <hat...@cox.net> wrote:
>
>> Let's not forget the very real, lovely, and wealthy Ima Hogg.
>
> And her apocryphal sister, Ura. I have a feeling this one was vectored
> by Ann Landers.
From what I've heard, the story of Ura Hogg was a well-worn Texas
joke dating back to the 1920s or 30s, when Ima Hogg's career as a
philanthropist was in full swing.
I happen to be a member of a group of people known as the "Hogg
Successors" that is involved in an arcane lawsuit over royalties
and working interests in an oil field on the banks of Bayou Teche,
southeast of Lafayette, Louisiana.
The first wells in the field were drilled circa 1935, funded by a
partnership that included Ima Hogg and Texas oilman John R. Black.
My grandfather was a consulting geologist for Black, and received a
share of the royalties as compensation. Rights to the royalties
from the field have passed down over the years to a motley assortment
of heirs and other riffraff, including the University of Texas, a
Catholic school in Corsicana, and something called the "Petersburg
Home for Ladies."
ljd
Don Freeman
"Ray" <vortre...@yaxhoo.com> wrote in message
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> Hatunen <hat...@cox.net> wrote:
>
>> Let's not forget the very real, lovely, and wealthy Ima Hogg.
>
> And her apocryphal sister, Ura. I have a feeling this one was vectored
> by Ann Landers.
>
>
The two Lingus sisters, Connie and Anna, come to mind as well.
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Charles Wm. Dimmick
> I happen to be a member of a group of people known as the "Hogg
> Successors" that is involved in an arcane lawsuit over royalties
> and working interests in an oil field on the banks of Bayou Teche,
> southeast of Lafayette, Louisiana.
>
> The first wells in the field were drilled circa 1935, funded by a
> partnership that included Ima Hogg and Texas oilman John R. Black.
Gosh, I think I have some of the well logs from one of the
Bauou Teche fields, dating from the late 1940s. They are
currently in a file cabinet in a storeroom up at CCSU.
Charles
John Varela
(in article <slrneuec3t....@mausd.edu>):
> "You want to change your name, Mr Fritz Schidt?" "Yes, judge" "I sympathise.
> What do you want to change to to?" "John Schidt"
I heard it as Mr. Lipschitz wanted to change his name to Schitz.
--
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Gary G. Taylor
> and something called the "Petersburg Home for Ladies."
Yeah, them little ole ladies can be real rapscallions.
Michael Kuettner
"John Varela" <OLDl...@verizon.net> schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:0001HW.C20CFF57...@news.verizon.net...
> On Thu, 1 Mar 2007 14:09:32 -0500, grey...@gmaildo.tcom wrote
> (in article <slrneuec3t....@mausd.edu>):
>
>> "You want to change your name, Mr Fritz Schidt?" "Yes, judge" "I sympathise.
>> What do you want to change to to?" "John Schidt"
>
> I heard it as Mr. Lipschitz wanted to change his name to Schitz.
>
Adolf Arsch wanted to change his name to Berthold Arsch.
Cheers,
Michael "Godwin" Kuettner
Evan Kirshenbaum
> Ray <vortre...@yaxhoo.com> wrote:
>> Hatunen <hat...@cox.net> wrote:
>>
>>> Let's not forget the very real, lovely, and wealthy Ima Hogg.
>>
>> And her apocryphal sister, Ura. I have a feeling this one was
>> vectored by Ann Landers.
>
> From what I've heard, the story of Ura Hogg was a well-worn Texas
> joke dating back to the 1920s or 30s, when Ima Hogg's career as a
> philanthropist was in full swing.
It goes back a lot further than that:
A girl in Kansas is named Ima Daisy Cook. Whether the name be
true or false, it is more to the credit of the parents than either
of the names given by ex-Gov. Hogg of Texas to his daughters, Ima
and Ura. [_Los Angeles Times_, 8/21/1899]
At that point, Ima Hogg would have just turned 17.
The name is vectored again in the _Los Angeles Times_ in 1936, in
E.V. Durling's "On the Side" column:
Readers continue to insist late Gov. Hogg of Texas named his
daughters Ima and Ura. Does anybody know Ima Hogg or Ura Hogg?
[11/27/1936]
It's first vectored in the _New York Times_ in a 1955 letter:
In her article on naming and misnaming--"What's in a Name? Lots"
(Aug. 28), Flora Lewis neglected to mention a classic in the
latter category. I refer to the Texas millionaire named Hogg who
inflicted Ima and Ura on his two daughters. [9/18/1955]
Ah! This is interesting. Ura Hogg as an apparently real name--for a
man--goes back at least to 1915:
Prosoner's Name Puzzled Officer.
[St. Louis Globe Democrat:] "What is your name? asked
Lieut. Casey of the Northern Police Station, Baltimore, when a man
was brought to the book for speeding.
"Ura Hogg," was the answer.
"Who's a hog?" asked the lieutenant.
"Why, I'm a Hogg--Ura Hogg," came the answer.
"Your name is what I want," said the lieutenant.
"That's what I have been giving you all the time," was the
answer. My name is Ura Hogg, capital U-r-a, capital H-o double
g."
"Uh! I get you," exclaimed the lieutenant.
The man blessed with the name Ura Hogg said he lived at Bellona
and Lake avenues. With two other men he was charged with speeding
along the University parkway. They were dismissed with a warning
by Justice Ulrich.
Mr. Hogg says he has not been in town very long, coming from New
Orleans. He is duly registered as an automobile owner.
[_LA Times_, 11/20/1915]
Looking in the census archives I have access to (which are,
unfortunately, incomplete), I don't see him in 1910 or 1920, but there
is a four-year-old boy in the 1880 census named Ura Hogg in Holly
Springs, Arkansas. Amazingly, I thought at first that he actually had
a sister named "Ima", but on looking again, I realized that it was a
brother named "Ira".
So it appears that there *was* a Ura Hogg born six years before Ima
Hogg.
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Ray
> The two Lingus sisters, Connie and Anna, come to mind as well.
Do they have a brother name Aer?
TMOliver
> "Don Freeman" <free...@sonic.net> wrote:
>
>> The two Lingus sisters, Connie and Anna, come to mind as well.
>
> Do they have a brother name Aer?
>
JoAnne Schmitz
<kirsh...@hpl.hp.com> wrote:
>Ah! This is interesting. Ura Hogg as an apparently real name--for a
>man--goes back at least to 1915:
>
> Prosoner's Name Puzzled Officer.
>
> [St. Louis Globe Democrat:] "What is your name? asked
> Lieut. Casey of the Northern Police Station, Baltimore, when a man
> was brought to the book for speeding.
>
> "Ura Hogg," was the answer.
>
> "Who's a hog?" asked the lieutenant.
>
> "Why, I'm a Hogg--Ura Hogg," came the answer.
>
> "Your name is what I want," said the lieutenant.
>
> "That's what I have been giving you all the time," was the
> answer. My name is Ura Hogg, capital U-r-a, capital H-o double
> g."
>
> "Uh! I get you," exclaimed the lieutenant.
>
> The man blessed with the name Ura Hogg said he lived at Bellona
> and Lake avenues. With two other men he was charged with speeding
> along the University parkway. They were dismissed with a warning
> by Justice Ulrich.
>
> Mr. Hogg says he has not been in town very long, coming from New
> Orleans. He is duly registered as an automobile owner.
>
> [_LA Times_, 11/20/1915]
At least the street names are legit -- they're all in northern Baltimore
City (it may have been Baltimore County at the time) and they're all near
each other, Bellona and Lake do intersect.
JoAnne "no highway numbering yet" Schmitz
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wrote:
>All of this foolishness reminds me of the Seventh Grade, circa 1950 or so,
>and "Great Books" Jokes....
>
>_Under the Grandstand_ by Seymour Butts
>
>_The Yellow River_ by I. P. Freeley
My husband went to school with a boy named I. P. Blue. He went by his
initials (sorry) I. P. because his first name was Ivy. Apparently being
the butt of jokes is better than having a girl's name.
JoAnne "in a Catholic military school" Schmitz
Hatunen
<jsch...@qis.net> wrote:
>On Thu, 1 Mar 2007 08:50:42 -0600, "TMOliver" <tmoliv...@hot.rr.comFIX>
>wrote:
>
>>All of this foolishness reminds me of the Seventh Grade, circa 1950 or so,
>>and "Great Books" Jokes....
>>
>>_Under the Grandstand_ by Seymour Butts
>>
>>_The Yellow River_ by I. P. Freeley
>
>My husband went to school with a boy named I. P. Blue. He went by his
>initials (sorry) I. P. because his first name was Ivy. Apparently being
>the butt of jokes is better than having a girl's name.
When I was young, like the late 1940s and 1950s, in Warren Ohio
one of your mates might come up and ask, "What do women like?" If
you didn't know the punchline, he would reply,like, "Look in the
phone book, page, 92, 12th name down." There you would find the
number for Natural Peter.
Several years later, returning to my home town, I checked and Mr
Natural had changed his listing to "Natural P."
James
> All of this foolishness reminds me of the Seventh Grade, circa 1950 or so,
> and "Great Books" Jokes....
>
> _Under the Grandstand_ by Seymour Butts
>
> _The Yellow River_ by I. P. Freeley
>
> _The Tiger's Revenge_ by Claude Balls
>
> ......and what must have been an entire collection of others, now lost in
> the hazy fug of the unrecallable.
I swear Red Skelton did a number of these on his show many years ago.
And of course the "Seymour Butts" moniker has been adopted by a maker
of porn (who has his own reality TV show called Family Business, or so
I read somewhere).
James "and his real name is Adam, and how did I know that" Linn
ljd
> On Fri, 02 Mar 2007 11:24:59 -0800, Evan Kirshenbaum
><kirsh...@hpl.hp.com> wrote:
>
>>Ah! This is interesting. Ura Hogg as an apparently real name--for a
>>man--goes back at least to 1915:
>>
>> Prosoner's Name Puzzled Officer.
>>
>> [St. Louis Globe Democrat:] "What is your name? asked
>> Lieut. Casey of the Northern Police Station, Baltimore, when a man
>> was brought to the book for speeding.
>>
>>
>> The man blessed with the name Ura Hogg said he lived at Bellona
>> and Lake avenues. With two other men he was charged with speeding
>> along the University parkway. They were dismissed with a warning
>> by Justice Ulrich.
>
> City (it may have been Baltimore County at the time) and they're all near
> each other, Bellona and Lake do intersect.
On the 1904 topographic map of Baltimore at historical.maptech.com,
the northern boundary of Baltimore City is about halfway between
40th Street and Coldspring Lane, just north of Hampden. I'm not
positive, but I think the city boundaries were pretty much the
same in 1915, with Roland Park still a "suburban" community
independent of the city. The area around Lake and Bellona would
have been in the county then.
I don't know if I'd say University Parkway is particularly near
the intersection of Lake and Bellona, though -- it's a couple
of miles to the south.
ljd
(formerly of Hampden, now living not far from Ura Hogg's
one-time abode at Lake and Bellona, an area which was mostly
farmland in 1915.)
Ray
> When I was young, like the late 1940s and 1950s, in Warren Ohio
> one of your mates might come up and ask, "What do women like?" If
> you didn't know the punchline, he would reply,like, "Look in the
> phone book, page, 92, 12th name down." There you would find the
> number for Natural Peter.
>
> Several years later, returning to my home town, I checked and Mr
> Natural had changed his listing to "Natural P."
Some years ago the Cleveland phone book had a listing for "Meoff,
Jack". A friend called the phone company to ask about it, and was told
it was fake and there other fake listings in a similar vein. But I
never found out what any of the others were. I've heard "Phyllis Sy"
bandied about, but too late to look it up.
Bob Ward
wrote:
>On Thu, 1 Mar 2007 08:50:42 -0600, "TMOliver" <tmoliv...@hot.rr.comFIX>
>wrote:
>
>>All of this foolishness reminds me of the Seventh Grade, circa 1950 or so,
>>and "Great Books" Jokes....
>>
>>_Under the Grandstand_ by Seymour Butts
>>
>>_The Yellow River_ by I. P. Freeley
>
>My husband went to school with a boy named I. P. Blue. He went by his
>initials (sorry) I. P. because his first name was Ivy. Apparently being
>the butt of jokes is better than having a girl's name.
>
>JoAnne "in a Catholic military school" Schmitz
He could have called himself Bill, or George - anything but Su^W Ivy.
Lee Ayrton
In the late 1970s the Willimantic, Connecticut phone directory had a
listing for Gay, Enola. It never occured to me that it might be a fake,
but I never tried the number, either.
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Lee Ayrton
> On Thu, 1 Mar 2007 08:50:42 -0600, "TMOliver" <tmoliv...@hot.rr.comFIX>
> wrote:
>
>> All of this foolishness reminds me of the Seventh Grade, circa 1950 or so,
>> and "Great Books" Jokes....
>>
>> _Under the Grandstand_ by Seymour Butts
>>
>> _The Yellow River_ by I. P. Freeley
>
> My husband went to school with a boy named I. P. Blue. He went by his
> initials (sorry) I. P. because his first name was Ivy. Apparently being
> the butt of jokes is better than having a girl's name.
There's a lighting manual on my shelf written by Harry Box.
He's worked in the biz for some time:
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0101498/
Charles Wm. Dimmick
> There's a lighting manual on my shelf written by Harry Box.
>
> http://www.amazon.com/Set-Lighting-Technicians-Handbook-Third/dp/0240804953/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/002-5371687-5279236?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1173545093&sr=8-1
Googling, I find:
Harry Organ 6162 1/2 Etzel Ave, St. Louis, Mo.
also:
Henry (Harry) George ORGAN b about 1833 in Berkley (?) Gloucestershire.
also:
Harry Organ
RETIRED
CMC
LONDON, Ontario
Business Phone: (null)
Is there a Harry Organ in the pool?
Charles
JoAnne Schmitz
Near enough if you have a car, I meant. It's in a different class from
"well, Annapolis is within a day's drive of Lake and Bellona."
I'm thinking he may have been coming home from a baseball game, hence the
apparent dragnet for speeders. Terrapin Park, where the Baltimore
Terrapins played, was at York (or Greenmount) and 29th street. Go up York
to University Parkway, University Parkway to Charles, Charles to Lake, Lake
to Bellona.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrapin_Park
>ljd
>
>(formerly of Hampden, now living not far from Ura Hogg's
> one-time abode at Lake and Bellona, an area which was mostly
> farmland in 1915.)
JoAnne "formerly of Towson, Woodbourne, Loch Raven, Texas (Maryland),
Roland Park, and currently of a fine waterfront community where people
throw beer bottles at the sidewalk and occasionally each other" Schmitz
JoAnne Schmitz
The Baltimore phone book used to have a "Zzzephyr, Zeno" as its last entry.
I just searched and there is a designer of Second Life clothing that goes
by "Zeno Zephyr"
http://www.slboutique.com/index.php?p=buy&user_avatar_id=239&nh=1
JoAnne "Texan Cowboy Tuxedo in Black" Schmitz
Gary G. Taylor
> On Fri, 09 Mar 2007 23:47:59 GMT, Ray <vortre...@yaxhoo.com> wrote:
>
>>Hatunen <hat...@cox.net> wrote:
>>
>>> When I was young, like the late 1940s and 1950s, in Warren Ohio one of
>>> your mates might come up and ask, "What do women like?" If you didn't
>>> know the punchline, he would reply,like, "Look in the phone book, page,
>>> 92, 12th name down." There you would find the number for Natural Peter.
>>>
>>> Several years later, returning to my home town, I checked and Mr
>>> Natural had changed his listing to "Natural P."
>>
>>Some years ago the Cleveland phone book had a listing for "Meoff, Jack".
>>A friend called the phone company to ask about it, and was told it was
>>fake and there other fake listings in a similar vein. But I never found
>>out what any of the others were. I've heard "Phyllis Sy" bandied about,
>>but too late to look it up.
>
> The Baltimore phone book used to have a "Zzzephyr, Zeno" as its last
> entry.
>
> I just searched and there is a designer of Second Life clothing that goes
> by "Zeno Zephyr"
>
> http://www.slboutique.com/index.php?p=buy&user_avatar_id=239&nh=1
>
> JoAnne "Texan Cowboy Tuxedo in Black" Schmitz
A good friend listed himself for many years in the Los Angeles Central
directory as Isador M. Toke.
Pete Wilcox
On Mar 1, 9:50 am, "TMOliver" <tmoliverjr...@hot.rr.comFIX> wrote:
> All of this foolishness reminds me of the Seventh Grade, circa 1950 or so,
> and "Great Books" Jokes....
>
> _Under the Grandstand_ by Seymour Butts
>
> _The Yellow River_ by I. P. Freeley
>
> _The Tiger's Revenge_ by Claude Balls
>
> ......and what must have been an entire collection of others, now lost in
> the hazy fug of the unrecallable.
>
Pete "Will turn threads into cascades for food" Wilcox
Leo G Simonetta
My current domicile is a mere couple of blocks from the
intersection of Lake and Bellona in the loverly Bellona Gittings
neighborhood.
Where arabbers still work.
http://www.baltimorestories.com/main.cfm?nid=4&tid=157
Leo "It's a small world, afterall" Simonetta
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Dave Griffith
> On Mar 1, 9:50 am, "TMOliver" <tmoliverjr...@hot.rr.comFIX> wrote:
>> All of this foolishness reminds me of the Seventh Grade, circa 1950 or so,
>> and "Great Books" Jokes....
>>
>> _Under the Grandstand_ by Seymour Butts
>>
>> _The Yellow River_ by I. P. Freeley
>>
>> _The Tiger's Revenge_ by Claude Balls
>>
>> ......and what must have been an entire collection of others, now lost in
>> the hazy fug of the unrecallable.
>>
> "Nail in the bannister" by R. Stornaway.
These were (still are?) a staple of Boy's Life magazine.
"Being Prepared" by Justin Case.
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Ace
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Yup, still there.
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Fans of this sort of thing should also check out the credits for the radio show
"Car Talk"...a compilation can be found on the web at:
http://www.cartalk.com/content/about/credits/credits.html
....r
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