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Christina

Wednesday, May 21, 2003 - 05:15 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I work with a guy named Charlie Brown.
I was also engaged to a man with the last named Stitt. If you said my name really fast it would have sounded like this...Leestitt. My first name is Lee. Now I am married to Mike Cox. say it fast too.

Christina

Wednesday, May 21, 2003 - 05:16 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I usually call him Michael!

Gabbi

Wednesday, May 21, 2003 - 05:21 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I know of a family who's last name is Shores. The daughters are Sandy, Windy, Misty and Sunny. eeekkk

Sasha

Wednesday, May 21, 2003 - 08:08 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I know a Crystal Chandra Lehr.

Weenerlobo

Wednesday, May 21, 2003 - 08:25 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I used to be a paralegal for the firm of Aho & Potti. They are Finns and the correct pronunciation is Ah-Hoe and Poe-tee, but my family just cracked up when I told them about my new bosses.

I know of a very nice car salesman named Dick Waack.

Also know a very nice entertainer named Dusty Rhodes. His first wife's name is Pat and they used to play together and were billed as "Pat and Dusty Rhodes." hehehehe

Hermione69

Wednesday, May 21, 2003 - 10:02 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Funny names I have come across...

In middle school, a friend of mine told me that her dad worked with a Harry Butz. I didn't believe her. She told me to go and look it up in the phone book, so I did, and it was there!

I have a friend whose maiden name is Ruck. Her childhood friends used to call her Rotsa. Rotsa Ruck!

I went to college with a girl whose last name was Pusey.

Hopefully no one named Pusey will ever marry someone named Ruck. Pusey-Ruck makes a very bad rhyme.

My mom taught a young lady named Anita Knapp who was always falling asleep in class.

The sheriff in my hometown had the surname Law.

The head of the psychology department at my college was Dr. Couch.

Cathie

Wednesday, May 21, 2003 - 10:08 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Thanks, Ginger, that'll teach me to not speed read without my reading glasses!!!

Schoolmarm

Wednesday, May 21, 2003 - 10:15 am EditMoveDeleteIP
When I lived in another state, my medical people chose WRONG specialties...my dentist was Dr. Collier (shoulda been a vet) and my MD was Dr. Lenz (shoulda been an eye doctor).

And have you met the Tree family? Kids are Mary, Jack and Doug. Sounds ok, until you know their middle names: Mary Christmas, Jack Pine and Douglas Fir!

I'll have to think a bit about students I've taught who have had strange names!

Schoolmarm

Wednesday, May 21, 2003 - 10:19 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Oh, Shoot, I forgot to tell you about my grandfather! He was named after President Grover Cleveland. He had a brother named after Benjamin Franklin, too. WELL, the bad thing is that our last name RHYMES with Grover.

Before she married my Dad, my mother worked at the phone company and had to proofread the phone book by reading the names and numbers to the other girl who worked there. By mid phonebook, they would always get punchy and my grandfather's rhyming name always gave them a belly laugh!

Cathie

Wednesday, May 21, 2003 - 10:20 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I once had a client whose first name was Theonly. It turned out she was the first girl to be born in her father's family for generations, and her middle name was Girl, so she was Theonly Girl _______.

Allietex

Wednesday, May 21, 2003 - 04:37 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I went to high school with a boy whose last name was Housingfluck.You know what high schoolers could do with that name.

At our school, we had a little girl whose name was Female, pronounced Fa mallie. It seems when she was born, her mother, who did not read too well, saw the word Female on papers they brought her to sign and thought the hospital had named her without asking. She liked the name and kept it, mispronuncation and all.

The stangest name I ever had in my class was Hawaiiandanielle. This was one name and it was a boy!

Allietex

Wednesday, May 21, 2003 - 04:44 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Of course there was the story of the Texas governor whose last name was Hogg. He named his daughter Ima. There was a story that he had two daughters and named the second Ura, but I think that was not so. The Ima was correct though.

Cathie

Wednesday, May 21, 2003 - 04:54 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Allie, I've also heard the ficticious addition of twins to the Hogg family, Heesa and Sheesa, lol :)

Alakaren

Wednesday, May 21, 2003 - 07:28 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I've got one. I used to take my dog to a vet named Dr. Slaughter.

Pixie

Wednesday, May 21, 2003 - 08:21 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Another student from a few years ago was Shi-thead Take out the hyphen and try to call roll the first day of class.

Tabbyking

Wednesday, May 21, 2003 - 11:29 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
cathie and allietex, there is a huge family named Pigg in the next town over. i have heard many goofy names, but not sure they are all true. i did meet an older Pigg named "Will" several times when he was a patient and he weighed about 500 pounds. whenever his wife talked about or to him, she couldn't say his name clearly with her "teef" out, and i swear she always called him 'lil pigg'. and the funniest part wasn't even the two words together, it was her calling this giant 'lil'! the wife was also kind of deaf and sometimes we would have call him from the waiting room a couple of times. and she would say, "did you just call my husband, lil pigg?"
i remember several 'makin bacon' jokes because there were so many Piggs out at the farm!
they were a really sweet old couple, but i imagine they had some tough times over the years with such a name.

Christina

Thursday, May 22, 2003 - 02:44 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I almost forgot, I worked with a man, last name Dunce. He changed it a few years ago. For his kids mostly. Imagine that name in school?

Staceyinpa

Thursday, May 22, 2003 - 11:22 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I went to school with a Stephen Dick.. and his father's first name was Harry...
I go to a doctor named Ben Herr...

Unique name.. not really funny,.... my older step-sister is named Charisma.. if she was a boy they were going to name her Baouwoulf.. (sp)

Crazydog

Thursday, May 22, 2003 - 11:59 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I think "Harry Dick" has to be one of the most unfortunate names I've ever heard.

Not sure of the validity of it, but someone here in my office says that they have a friend named Richard Hertz. And yes, he goes by "Dick".

Pamy

Thursday, May 22, 2003 - 06:48 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I went to school with twins that were named Adam and Eve.

Suitsmefine

Thursday, May 22, 2003 - 08:44 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
My niece graduated with a kid named Harry Mann. Another "backward" family here named their poor kid Chainsaw Oily Butts... his Dad made those wood sculptures with a chainsaw and named the poor child that!

Clp

Friday, May 30, 2003 - 10:29 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Knew a guy named Chris Peacock. Say it fast.

Not1worry

Saturday, May 31, 2003 - 09:11 am EditMoveDeleteIP
My band teacher in Jr. High was Mr. Musick.

Had a classmate named Velveeta.

Another one named William Willey the 3rd. And he went by Billy, quite proudly.

They publish the names of the babies in our paper here, and some are so horrifying. These are some just from today's list.

A girl - Xaviana Uriah
A boy - Tinahjay Dior
A girl - D'Azaneh Za'Karia. I don't even know how to pronounce that.

Bastable

Saturday, May 31, 2003 - 11:46 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I knew someone named Luke Warm.

Jed245

Saturday, May 31, 2003 - 05:25 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
This might not fit in this thread, but, I saw a sign for a local wedding... it was micheal buck
and Joanne shot..... the buck shot wedding :o)

Not sure if that was suppsoed to be a joke, but, the sign said (this way to the buck - Shot wedding)