Strange but true names

[Douglas C Scott]

LeoS4 (le...@aol.com) wrote:
: A guy I work with is named Phelan Cox........ I didn't believe it either.
: Who would do that to their child?
: Leonard Seawell

There was a governor of Texas named Hogg. He named his daughter Ura.
Local legend improved on this story and invented a second daughter
that he was suspose to have named Ima.

Actally it's been awhile since I heard this story so I may have the
names reversed but you get the idea.

Doug Scott
Arlington, Tx

[MOR...@uhupvm1.uh.edu]

In article <D3ErF...@metronet.com>

Actually, this is no legend. Anyone interested can visit Ima Hogg's home
in Houston, TX. Odd, I grant you, but she actually existed!

[sl...@cc.usu.edu]

I know a girl who's last name is Sass. Imagine--Steph Sass. Works with any
first name....I laughed so hard when I was introduced to her, and she didn't
get it!

[Julie Gentry]

How 'bout the head of ESL... King Lear (seriously). His sister's
name is Shanda.

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[Jaivey]

Was this an additional immaculate conception?

[Galene Thayer]

Half of you won't believe it and the other half won't care but here goes:

I worked in the physical plant at a college when our director was
leaving. His replacement was named Heinz Butt. We called him Heiny,
but not to his face :-)

Galene

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[JWhite0582]

I know a guy name Pat McCrotch!

[Ken Thorn]

I worked with a guy whose name was Richard Trimmer (Dick Trimmer)
We used to call him the rabbi.
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[Wolf Lahti]

Hollywood producer George Barr named his daughter Candy...

Then, for a really strange but true name, there's Berke Breathed.

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[Timothy R Ambler]

I went to school with a girl named Dolly Wolly. I also just saw a friend
who had a student with the name of Phuc Tran, I'm not to be one who makes
fun of asian names but this guy will go through hell in the u.s.

[how...@world-net.sct.fr]

In <3hc8qd$q...@newsbf02.news.aol.com>, jwhit...@aol.com (JWhite0582) writes:
>I know a guy name Pat McCrotch!

Here are a few of my favourites.
I personally knew some of these people.

Donna Ria
Robin Banks
Dwayne Pipe
Richard Ayres
Orson Cart

[Virginia Cox]

Do not flame me - there is a person in my town named Love Cox!.
Also, an Omah Goad.

[Bob Roberds]

In <Pine.A32.3.91.950218...@blue.weeg.uiowa.edu> Wolf
<jw...@blue.weeg.uiowa.edu> writes:

>
>On 15 Feb 1995 how...@world-net.sct.fr wrote:

>I always liked the people who we bought our house from -- the Dicks.
>They named their boy "Peter Dick."
>
>I still check the paper for the day he offs them for it.
>

Let's not forget Jimmy Johnson. It's bad enough having your first
or your last name be a synonym for "penis". But when they BOTH
are...

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> >I know a guy name Pat McCrotch!
>
> Here are a few of my favourites.
> I personally knew some of these people.
>
> Donna Ria
> Robin Banks
> Dwayne Pipe
> Richard Ayres
> Orson Cart

I always liked the people who we bought our house from -- the Dicks.
They named their boy "Peter Dick."

I still check the paper for the day he offs them for it.

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This posting reminded me of a kid I went to grade school with....

Richard Small

(For those of you who are having a hemmorage trying to figure this one
out...one of the nicknames for Richard is Dick...do the math.) ;-)

[Ronald D. Edge]

>Subject: Re: Strange but true names

Years ago I worked with the following people in the same institution:

Xenobia Peacock
Rose Bush

I am not making this up. And Rose drove an early 70s Volkswagen which she had
had converted with a fake hood and fenders so it looked like a miniature Rolls
Royce.

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[William Routhier]

My girlfriend comes from Texas, the land of weird names. She told me this
story of the weirdest, the two daughters of the one time Govenor Hogg.
(This is honestly true, you can look it up) He named his daughters
Ima and Ura.

What a Dad.

Bill Routhier

[David Hudson]

In article <22FEB95....@nel.pfc.mit.edu> st...@nel.pfc.mit.edu (PAUL) writes:

>religious leader of the Phillipines
>Cardinal Sin

I used to go to high school with a brother and sister whose last name was
Bottoms. His name was Harry and hers was Ophelia.
They did not date much, as I remember.

-David-

[Marina Moore]

I know a man who's name is Harry Dick. The company he works for issued
a T-Shirt on the occasion of their 100th year in business, which listed
all the current employee's names. His is right there at mid-chest level.
I guess they thought a tunic length shirt would just be asking for
trouble!

[Janick Bergeron]

A lady here in Ottawa who works as a temp placement agency is named
Kitty Cocks

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[John E. Crumrine]

Marina Moore (mo...@upanet.uleth.ca) wrote:
: I know a man who's name is Harry Dick. The company he works for issued

There was a substitute at my junior high named Dick Harry Siemen. I'm
not too sure about spelling, but you get the idea.

[Dangerous Dave]

I know a vet named Dr. Payne, a hygenist named Ellen Hirt, and I even heard of
a guy who used to play football for the University of Missouri-Columbia named
Harry Colon. In college someone told me that they new a guy named Richard
Head. In Kansas City there is a dentist named Dr. Semen (Do you think you
would like it if you had Semen in your mouth?). Oh yeah, in highschool I knew
a guy named Roger Rodgers. That's all I can think of for now.

-Ben Dover

[Laurence Henderson]

I once knew 2 brothers who were in the RAF, Peter & Andrew Ness.
Apparently role call was a real test of will power, any smiles
and it was 50 press-ups.

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[PovrtySuks]

I went to school with a PETER SMALL

[Joy Lynne Harwood]

Dangerous Dave (dnke...@axp2.umkc.edu) wrote:
: I know a vet named Dr. Payne, a hygenist named Ellen Hirt, and I even heard of

: -Ben Dover

We used to take the dog to a vet named Dr. Bone, and I used to know a guy
who was a gynecologist and his name was Dick.

[ma...@whq.whq.usbm.gov]

Marina Moore (mo...@upanet.uleth.ca) wrote:
: I know a man who's name is Harry Dick. The company he works for issued

There's a coach at a school where my freinds attended named Dick
Smoker. God only knows why he doesn't go by the name Richard instead.

[T.J. Fitzmaurice]

In article <3j30q9$4...@inxs.ncren.net>,

The most boring lecturer in the entire first year was a physics lecturer, here,
by the name of Dr D'eath.
Tim

[Chris Currivan]

In article <3imgj4$p...@panix.com>, mad...@panix.com (Josh Madison) writes:
> In article <3i8g74$s...@hydra.cs.hope.edu> ha...@cs.hope.edu (Tigger) writes:
> >how...@world-net.sct.fr wrote:

> >: In <3hc8qd$q...@newsbf02.news.aol.com>, jwhit...@aol.com (JWhite0582) writes:
> >: >I know a guy name Pat McCrotch!

> >: I personally knew some of these people.
> >
> >: Donna Ria
> >
> > I know somebody named Ok Doak. His father's name is Donald.
> >
> Knew a girl in college named Lisa Carr. Her brother was
> named Mike Carr ("Has anyone seen Mike Carr?")
>

went to high school with York Haqq - pronounced Hawk.

[Dave Wright]

In article <3im12b$j...@holly.cc.uleth.ca>,

I have a friend named Amin Erfani, who comes to us from the mid-east via
France. His first name is pronounced "Ahmeen". When we're out, and
somebody asks him a rhetorical questions beginning with "You know what,
Amin?", your mind does a quick lateral shift when the speaker continues,
and you realize that the speaker wasn't saying "You know what I mean?"
(like in "y'knowwhutahmean?").

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[Saul Glick]

In <3j6ft5$g...@ohlone.kn.pacbell.com> jlun...@news.kn.PacBell.COM (John
Lundgren) writes:

>
>
>Timothy R Ambler (scra...@rain.org) wrote:
>: I went to school with a girl named Dolly Wolly. I also just saw a

>We've got a lot of them here with that name, and also a few other ones,
>like Cao Dung. One of the ladies here has a brother with that name,
and
>I think he's the one in the navy. Probably gets kidded a lot about it.

>She pronounces it 'Fook', so it isn't so bad. Of course, there are
those
>of German ancestry with a last name of Fuchs, which is fox in German.
>
>The unusual names that I've been posting are for the most part just
>regular (?) names, and not foreign ones. But it's hard to really say
not
>forewign because just about everyone has foreign ancestry. But I guess
>the best thing to do is to illustrate.
>
> Some more from the list:
>
>Delight Lucas
>Ralph Mailbox
>Hiddo H. Harlings
>Queenie Bloemhard
>Lochie Byrd Hatcher
>Rippel Rasmussen
>Genghis Quan (Sorry, this one is probably foreign)
>Chauncey Cupkie
>Dixie Driver
>MonaLisa Schimpf
>Minnie Pearl Swindle
>
>
>And I'm tired of typing. More later.
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I met this person at a trade show. RONALD MACDONALD
In my dorm in college. Herman Munster
A licensed doctor in Pittsburgh. Dr. Frankenstein

[mmho...@peg.apc.org]

I heard of an Afrikaans vet in Zimbabwe whose (vindictive or naive ?)
parents christened him with the impossible to live up to name of :
........... EVERARD KOCH. Really.

Mac Snibbechaun

[Jean E. Scott]

Two kids I worked with at camp Kelly Green and Lady Jane (I can't remember
the last name).

A friend of mine, Sandy, married Dave Sheets.

The post master at the university I attended was named Charles Brown.

A girl I went to school w/ was named Wendy Gail Blizzard.

[Thomas D Sayers]

Drew Lynn...how'd you like to live with that one?

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[Ken Foster]

We used to have a guy at our company named Peter Strong.

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[Me]

har...@warren-wilson.edu (Joy Lynne Harwood) writes:

There's a proctologist in OR named Dr. Butt...

[John Lundgren]

Timothy R Ambler (scra...@rain.org) wrote:

: I went to school with a girl named Dolly Wolly. I also just saw a friend

: who had a student with the name of Phuc Tran, I'm not to be one who makes
: fun of asian names but this guy will go through hell in the u.s.

We've got a lot of them here with that name, and also a few other ones,

[John Lundgren]

Art Phillips (a...@rasputin.umd.edu) wrote:
: I understand that producer Norman Lear named his daughter Chanda.

: There ought to be a law, or at least a settlement awarding punative damages.

: a...@rasputin.umd.edu

It was a Lear, alright, but not Norman Lear. It was Bill Lear, the
inventor of the Lear Jet, among other things.

[D D Ginsberg]

The conductor of the Cape Town Symphony Orchestra has the glorious name
of Richard Cock. He is also known as Dick Cock.

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[Justine Wetherington]

In high school there was Buster Cherry.
Hospital records in Atlanta showed a patien whose name was
Positive Wasserman Jones
No shit - they're both real.

--
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[Julius Cooper]

dnke...@axp2.umkc.edu (Dangerous Dave) writes:

>I know a vet named Dr. Payne, a hygenist named Ellen Hirt, and I even heard of
>a guy who used to play football for the University of Missouri-Columbia named
>Harry Colon. In college someone told me that they new a guy named Richard
>Head. In Kansas City there is a dentist named Dr. Semen (Do you think you

>would like it if you had Semen in your mouth?).

Back in my hometown is a dentist named Dr. Fagg, and the OB who delivered
my son was named Dr. Payne.
> -Ben Dover

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Justine Wetherington (afn0...@usenet.freenet.ufl.edu) wrote:
: In high school there was Buster Cherry.

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I met a man in Johannesburg whose name is Sherlock Holmes (really).
His father's name is also Sherlock ...

[Jim Aites]

Or how about my urologist (vasectomy) who's shingle reads:

Dr. Peter Standard

[Jordan Sugarman]

In article <3j6g4t$g...@ohlone.kn.pacbell.com>, jlun...@news.kn.PacBell.COM (John Lundgren) says:
>
>
>Art Phillips (a...@rasputin.umd.edu) wrote:
>: I understand that producer Norman Lear named his daughter Chanda.
>
>: There ought to be a law, or at least a settlement awarding punative damages.
>
>: a...@rasputin.umd.edu
>
>It was a Lear, alright, but not Norman Lear. It was Bill Lear, the
>inventor of the Lear Jet, among other things.
>

If you think that's bad, the same guy named his son King.

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[Dave Clark]

In article <1995Mar6.0...@henson.cc.wwu.edu> n934...@henson.cc.wwu.edu (Jordan Sugarman) writes:
>From: n934...@henson.cc.wwu.edu (Jordan Sugarman)
>Subject: Re: Strange but true names
>Date: Mon, 6 Mar 1995 00:20:29 GMT

>In article <3j6g4t$g...@ohlone.kn.pacbell.com>, jlun...@news.kn.PacBell.COM (John Lundgren) says:
>>
>>
>>Art Phillips (a...@rasputin.umd.edu) wrote:
>>: I understand that producer Norman Lear named his daughter Chanda.
>>
>>: There ought to be a law, or at least a settlement awarding punative damages.
>>
>>: a...@rasputin.umd.edu
>>
>>It was a Lear, alright, but not Norman Lear. It was Bill Lear, the
>>inventor of the Lear Jet, among other things.
>>

I've heard of a Crystal Shanda Lear.
I went to school with a Patrick Mycock. He used to purposly show up late for
gym class just so the instructor would say "Where's Mycock"
When I worked as a magician/actor I worked with a mime named Peter Abbott
My mothers maiden name is Landin. Her brother named his two kids Crash and
Bumpy.
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In article <3j6ft5$g...@ohlone.kn.pacbell.com> jlun...@news.kn.PacBell.COM

(John Lundgren) writes:
>
> Timothy R Ambler (scra...@rain.org) wrote:
> : I went to school with a girl named Dolly Wolly. I also just saw a friend
> : who had a student with the name of Phuc Tran, I'm not to be one who makes
> : fun of asian names but this guy will go through hell in the u.s.
>
> We've got a lot of them here with that name, and also a few other ones,
> like Cao Dung. One of the ladies here has a brother with that name, and
> I think he's the one in the navy. Probably gets kidded a lot about it.
> She pronounces it 'Fook', so it isn't so bad. Of course, there are those
> of German ancestry with a last name of Fuchs, which is fox in German.
>

The father of a friend of mine swears he went to school with a guy
named Harry Balls...

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is for evil men to do nothing.

[Ian Boag]

There is og course that poor German guy who invented a tube that is used in high school
physics for getting wavelength of sound .... I have yet to see an acceptable way for the
poor old teacher to wrap his/her tongue around ...

"Kundt's tube"

Ian Boag

[Thomas D Sayers]

How'd you like to go thru life as "Dick Burns"? He exists - honestly.

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[DerekE]

Hickory , North Carolina. . ..

A girl named Crystal Chandra Leer

[Toh Hong Hwee]

>I went to school with a PETER SMALL

I believe in UNI'Net, there's a Stuart Cumming

[cw...@hermes.cam.ac.uk]

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>Tom Sayers
>tsa...@pafosu1.hq.af.mil

There is a guy who lives in the south of England called Wayne Kerr, and whats
worse is that he called his music store "Wayne Kerr music"
(It always winds up the telecom people up when you ask for the number, as they
think it's a joke but then they find it in the listings...)

Clive
"Who exactly *is* this General Failure, and why is he reading my disc?"

[somebobody_out_there]

Clive(cw...@hermes.cam.ac.uk) writes
|>There is a guy ...called Wayne Kerr...

How about the surname Bates for an unmarried man...

Master Bates...one of my Chemistry teachers was called that. It was a sort of
student in joke. Fortunately he never got it.

[Matt Crouch]

cw...@hermes.cam.ac.uk wrote:

: >--
: >Tom Sayers
: >tsa...@pafosu1.hq.af.mil

YTBFYPW! (oops, wrong newsgroup..!) :-)

[Brian Portlock]

Captian Pugwash was reputed to have a Master Bates and a Seaman Staines -
and it was a children's programme!

I used to watch it all the time and I never, never caught on. Just too
damned innocent at age 10.

Brian (a lot older and a lot less innocent (he he he ...) )

[Paul Wakeford]

> Captian Pugwash was reputed to have a Master Bates and a Seaman Staines

No he didn't.

Paul.

[Patricia Ireland]

When I was at cadet camp, the officer in charge of the drill team was
Major Dick -- which we all thought was *very* appropriate (-:

... Pat
..."What, no tag line??"

[Jesse S Walker]

My uncle is named Dick Walker
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[Brian Portlock]

Are you sure? Never mind - it was all a long time ago. Still it was safer
than "The Magic Roundabout", a talking dog, snail and cow, a silly girl
and a man with a spring up his arse!

I'm amazed I mananged to grow up with no mental scarring.

(there's flame bait if ever i read it)

Brian

[Vanessa Guinevere Pillat]

Matt Crouch (mjcr...@cs.bsu.edu) wrote:

: : >--
: : >Tom Sayers
: : >tsa...@pafosu1.hq.af.mil

According to my mom there used to be a butcher shop near where she lived on
a street named becher (pronounced bee cher) salled the "becher meat shop".

[Bob Roberds]

In <3l8326$e...@uwm.edu> vane...@alpha2.csd.uwm.edu (Vanessa Guinevere

Pillat) writes:
>According to my mom there used to be a butcher shop near where she
lived on
>a street named becher (pronounced bee cher) salled the "becher meat
shop".
>

Cool, but I still gotta vote for the Connecticut store called
"Master Bait and Tackle".

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[Dan Sobel]

In article <3jv4et$6...@hq.hq.af.mil>, tsayers@pafosu1 says...

>
>How'd you like to go thru life as "Dick Burns"? He exists - honestly.
>

Could be worse. We have a good friend of the family who's name is...

Richard Less

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