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Thread: Appropriate or inappropriate names
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Piglet
Islander
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I've been quite hooked on the Olympics and I noticed that a couple of the athletes had appropriate names.
Canada has a shot-putter called Mr. Armstrong, and of course the Fastest Man On The Planet™ is called Mr. Bolt.
The opposite can happen too: where I grew up there was a dance school run by Mr. and Mrs. Stiff.
I was going to make this a game, inviting suggestions (Mr. Snore the baseball player perhaps? ![[Devil]](graemlins/devil.gif) ) but instead put it up here for general discussion with anecdotes of real people.
Hostly judgement will be welcome. ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
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Pigwidgeon
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When I was in college the student who did most of the photography for the yearbook had the last name Camera.
Here in Arizona there was an orthodontist named Dr. Payne.
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Timothy the Obscure
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My mother's dentist when she was a child was Dr. Butcher.
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comet
Snowball in Hell
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I really wish I was kidding...
there is a local young man here who is obsessed with girls and has no luck particularly because he's a little "off" in the head. but he obsessively tries to get himself a girlfriend. unfortunately, all ages are fair game in his mind, which had led to more than a few fathers of teen girls threatening to kill him.
his last name is Hardon.
in Anchorage some years back we had a tightly contested race for state senate. the conservative candidate was named Mr. Strait. The liberal candidate's surname was Gaye. the "Gaye vs. Strait" race was all the talk.
unfortunately, Strait won.
(I'm pretty sure it wasn't staged that way. a journo friend of mind spent some time looking)
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Bob Two-Owls
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At my university department an office was shared by Dr Blood and Dr Gutze. I once went to a Dr Pilechop (pr. Pee-lay-chup), thank goodness it was ENT...
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Enigma
Enigma
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Dr Gripper presented with a boil.
She was lovely, though seemed to enjoy the challenge a bit too much.
I say no more. ![[Eek!]](eek.gif)
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LutheranChik
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Back when I was a legal proofreader I encountered the deposition of a urologist named Dr. Dick. One of the attorneys present broke into giggles whenever he addressed Dr. Dick, and he wound up calling more than one off-the-record just to compose himself before resuming questioning. (Dr. Dick, by the way, was a female.)
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The5thMary
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When I had my emergency gallbladder surgery several years ago, my doctor was a sweet woman named... Heather Slay. I kidded her about her name but inwardly I said an extra prayer! ![[Ultra confused]](graemlins/confused2.gif)
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The5thMary
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quote:
Originally posted by LutheranChik:
Back when I was a legal proofreader I encountered the deposition of a urologist named Dr. Dick. One of the attorneys present broke into giggles whenever he addressed Dr. Dick, and he wound up calling more than one off-the-record just to compose himself before resuming questioning. (Dr. Dick, by the way, was a female.)
Well, when I lived in Seattle and went to Pike Medical Clinic, there was a lovely, sweet doctor there who had an extremely unfortunate name: Dr. Les Piddel. Yeah... poor guy. He WASN'T a Urologist, which would have been too much, just a regular internal medicine doc. I only saw him once, my doctor was Dr. Murphy, a nice, Irish name!
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God gave me my face but She let me pick my nose.
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georgiaboy
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In a hospital where I was once employed, on staff there were:
Dr. Asman and Dr. Heine (pronounced ASS-man and HIGH-nee), and yes, both of them were proctologists (or perhaps one was a urologist, I can't exactly remember).
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BessLane
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I used to got to an OB/GYN named Dr. Wetter. My best girlfriend's gyno was Dr. Finger.
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kaytee
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I have seen death certificates signed by a De'Ath.
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Jigsaw
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Mr A. Branch (Andrew to his friends) is the St Albans Council's Tree and Woodland Preservation Officer.
And I knew a urology surgeon called Mr Waterfall.
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Pigwidgeon
Ship's Owl
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I have heard of two church Canons with the unfortunate last name of Ball.
And then there was a Cardinal in Korea, IIRC, named Cardinal Sinn.
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"...that is generally a matter for Pigwidgeon, several other consenting adults, a bottle of cheap Gin and the odd giraffe."
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Angloid
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# 159
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In Oakham in Rutland there is a dental surgeon named Dentith. Presumably after treatment from him everyone thpeakth with a lithp.
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churchgeek
Have candles, will pray
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When I was a teenager, my semi-retired oral surgeon, Dr. Small, had two associates: Dr. Fear and Dr. Pickens. Once, while in their waiting room, I heard the receptionist referring someone on the phone to a dentist by the name of "Dr. Awesome" - although I learned later it was spelled differently (I don't remember, but I think it was something like Ausum.) Awesome (or Ausum) isn't necessarily appropriate for a dentist - but wouldn't you at least visit him once to find out?
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Huia
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Some years ago, whilst waiting for a smear test at Family Planning I noticed a sign advertising a sex therapist - her name was Lorna Lust.
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Sioni Sais
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In Lincoln there is Steep Hill, which is an unimaginative if accurate description. Parts of it have handrails!
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Dr Cutforth (surgeon), Rev Shepherd, Rev Solomon, Rev Hope, Dr Death just to name a few.
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Morlader
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My very first optician: Mr Askew.
They tried hard to pronounce it ASkew, but ...
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Melisande
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Back in the day at my middle school, the orchestra teacher was Mr. Echo, the shop teacher Mr. Swet, and the home ec teacher Mrs. Stout.
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It is only a door.
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georgiaboy
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And there was once a parish somewhere in Indiana whose rector was Fr. Annis, with a curate name of Fr. Fallis.
And yes, The 'A' was long, and the 'a' was short.
And it was said, though I don't know this for fact, that the second curate was Fr. Staines. (pronounced as one would expect.)
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Jengie jon
Semper Reformanda
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In my youth the vicar of Sandal was Straps.
Jengie
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churchgeek
Have candles, will pray
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Originally posted by Sioni Sais:
In Lincoln there is Steep Hill, which is an unimaginative if accurate description. Parts of it have handrails!
It's hard to photograph a steep hill, so I'm guessing that photo doesn't do it justice. I think it's 'cause we tend to aim the camera upward (if shooting up a hill) or downward (if shooting downhill), which flattens it out a bit. My experience with this is Nob Hill in San Francisco, which is said to have gotten its name from the word "nabob." That's still appropriate, and people often call it "Snob Hill."
Speaking of place names,
Nobody knows why its founder named Mount Pleasant, Michigan as he did; he never told anyone. I always figure when people look around and see how flat the place is, they'll start to question the "Pleasant" bit as well.
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Twilight
Puddleglum's sister
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The USA women's volleyball team's two best players are Destiny Hooker and Logan Tom. It's no wonder to me that they spike that ball as hard as they do, they've probably been angry since first grade.
When I first moved to the U.S. state of Georgia eveybody had election signs in their yard, telling us to vote for Zell Miller, Newt Gingrich and Saxby Chambliss. No double meanings but I did wonder what their parents were thinking. Then again, maybe if you want your children to go far in politics you actually need to name them something like Mitt or Barack.
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The5thMary
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Dr. Patrick Stumpo... orthopedic surgeon... my friend's boyfriend. My friend's name was Patty Bland, but she wasn't! She and Patrick Stumpo used to dance on the furniture, re-enacting some famous scene from a Fred Astaire/Ginger Rogers movie!
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The Great Gumby
Ship's Brain Surgeon
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Richard Wiseman recently picked up on a Bulgarian athlete in the Women's 400m hurdles at the Olympics who fell in her heat and failed to finish.
Her name? Vania Stambolova.
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The first principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool. - Richard Feynman
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Banner Lady
Ship's Ensign
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There is a building firm in this fair city run by one J.Shonkey.
His advertising boards obviously cause much comment.
When I was in Tokyo I really enjoyed walking past a lawfirm office where the plaque read: Hitman & Co.
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Women in the church are not a problem to be solved, but a mystery to be enjoyed.
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Mudfrog
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There is a funeral directors in Blackpool called Stephen Box
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Yangtze
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Ah, this is when I get to share my knowledge again that when Pfizer were developing Viagra one of the scientists was a Dr Cox. And then when they were marketing it, the head of PR was a Mr Hardman.
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lilBuddha
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In men's diving there was a gentleman by the name of Feck. Appropriate given his final dive.
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Bob Two-Owls
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My first boss was a Mr.Hymen, he was horrible. I'm sure I don't have to spell out all the jokes...
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Schroedinger's cat
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Mr Doctor used to be called Dr Brain. He probably should have been a neurologist. I also worked with A. Nutter.
And I knew of a vicar in Bracknell apparently called Fr Christmas.
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Avila
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All at the same school - honest!!
Mrs Storey - English
Mr Mason - Craft and Tech
Mr Bird - also craft and tech but set up the chicken/mini farm project in the enclosed quads of the school building.
Then there is the British Methodist Rev Bishop.
And when a friend (at that stage not married to the father) was asked what the baby's surname would be and she replied 'Private' people thought she was avoiding the question even when she was giving the answer!!
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Mamacita
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While checking the office directory at a Chicago building we found a fertility specialist named Dr. Seed.
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Morlader
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The internal telephone directory of a company I used to work for listed only three names in their Development Department: Messrs Fox, Thick and Woodhead.
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Piglet
Islander
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One of Britain's cyclists is called Ms. Trott. Shouldn't she have been an equestrianist?*
* Evidently not, as she got two gold medals ... ![[Yipee]](graemlins/spin.gif)
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alto n a soprano who can read music
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Mudfrog
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There is a Salvation Army officer called Major Hassard(pronounced as with double z)
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G.K. Chesterton
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Eutychus
From the edge
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I unfortunately can't reveal them, but one of my prison pastimes is spotting inmates' names that are the same as the police heroes of French crime series on TV.
I'll just have to make do with the infamous dentist Dr. Phang. His surgery was in Hammersmith and he had the name emblazoned in huge gold letters across the front. I was at the same school as his son.
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Zacchaeus
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I came across a morgage broker called Peril!
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no prophet's flag is set so...
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Years ago while in university, I picked up a book outside of a prof's office, a given-away box. History of Experimental Psychology by Edwin Boring. And yes, it is, and I still have it.
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