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Odd names of real people that are known to Wordies.

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  • oroboros commented on the list real-names

    Skipvia, check out Currie Nunnery and Buford Pusser.

    October 15, 2007

  • npydyuan commented on the list real-names

    I know a guy named Dick Thickens. Really.

    October 15, 2007

  • skipvia commented on the list real-names

    Near where I live in Fairbanks is a guy named Richard who goes by the moniker "Skinny Dick." He runs a roadhouse halfway between Fairbanks and Nenana. The name of the establishment is "Skinny Dick's Halfway Inn." His t-shirts are famous.

    October 15, 2007

  • uselessness commented on the list real-names

    As mentioned on proctor, I know of a Ron Doctor, Ph.D., a.k.a. Dr. Doctor. May or may not count as a "name."

    October 15, 2007

  • reesetee commented on the list real-names

    Does Dr. Doctor have a nurse named Nurse? Just asking....

    Skipvia, I know a few people who would probably kill for that t-shirt. And I'm not telling them about it. ;-)

    October 16, 2007

  • trivet commented on the list real-names

    I think there are more of these somewhere....

    edit:

    Ah-hah! -->here.

    'speciallly in the list comments...

    October 16, 2007

  • skipvia commented on the list real-names

    Google "skinny dicks halfway inn" if you really want one. The site is...ummm...bawdy. Oh, hell, it's downright salacious in a cheap, plastic novelty sort of way. Of course, if you knew Skinny...

    October 16, 2007

  • reesetee commented on the list real-names

    No. No thanks. I really don't want one; believe me. Although I sure wouldn't mind visiting the place. :-)

    October 16, 2007

  • jennarenn commented on the list real-names

    Ah, I wonder if that's the same Holly Wood that I've heard of.

    October 16, 2007

  • rocksinmypockets commented on the list real-names

    A friend of my sister's just named her child Leaf Mountain.

    October 28, 2007

  • skipvia commented on the list real-names

    I just saw a clip of an interview with a judge by the name of Willie Stroker. These are both going on the list toot sweet.

    October 28, 2007

  • skipvia commented on the list real-names

    If I were Willie Stroker I'd use a different nickname for William--like Dick.

    Wait...

    October 28, 2007

  • reesetee commented on the list real-names

    Aw, man. Why would you do that to a kid??

    Darnell Phason, skipvia. See Currie Nunnery for more.

    October 28, 2007

  • sionnach commented on the list real-names

    I know someone who was called Laurel Hardy before she got married. I never did have the nerve to ask her if her middle initial is N.

    And one of my classmates in graduate school was called Greg Samsa.

    Unfortunately, I cannot claim to know Jermajesty Jackson personally.

    Some people's fitness for parenthood seems questionable, at best.

    October 28, 2007

  • chained_bear commented on the list real-names

    I heard once about a famous, wealthy family in Texas, I believe, called Hogg. The patriarch (I hesitate to apply such a term to this man) named his daughters "Ima" and "Ura."

    And I read once about a law that was passed in... Iowa? I want to say... that forbade naming a child anything degrading. The law was passed in response to a family whose two children were named "Do the Dishes" and "Take Out the Trash." I remember I saw this in print, but that doesn't necessarily mean it's true. (The first story I only heard about, but it has more of a ring of truth to it.)

    October 28, 2007

  • skipvia commented on the list real-names

    Ima Hogg was a real Texan who led a fascinating life devoted to philanthropy. Her father (Big Jim Hogg) was the governor of Texas at one point. Uma Hogg is a myth--Ima didn't have a sister by that name.

    October 29, 2007

  • uselessness commented on the list real-names

    I don't think Ima has ever been a nice name. I've only ever heard it in jokes about terrible ones. Is it short for a traditional name, or was it just invented for the sake of bad puns?

    October 29, 2007

  • john commented on the list real-names

    I know an Ima, a very nice person. It's pronounced ēma, though (she's Italian), so it's less useful for punning.

    October 29, 2007

  • skipvia commented on the list real-names

    Ima is often a nickname for Imogene, U. Imogene is a beautiful name--Ima blows dead rats.

    October 29, 2007

  • chained_bear commented on the list real-names

    Yeah, I think Ima the way John's acquaintance pronounces it is lovely, as is Imogene.

    I wonder why I heard there was a sister named Ura. And I still wonder why Big Jim Hogg felt it desirable to name his daughter Ima.

    I guess it's still better than Rhythm Belcher, no matter how you slice it.

    October 29, 2007

  • bilby commented on the list real-names

    In one of my incarnations I worked in remote land where I got to know a guy whose first name was Wedding. Now Wedding ended up marrying a girl called Darling and I was kind of glad not to be invited to the Darling-Wedding nuptials or I might have died of schmalz.

    December 19, 2007

  • rolig commented on the list real-names

    I once knew a nurse who worked in an obstetrics ward; she told me that one problem she frequently encountered concerned new mothers who wanted to give their children such pretty-sounding names as Vulva and Urethra, and she had to explain to them what these words actually meant.

    December 19, 2007

  • skipvia commented on the list real-names

    Urethra Franklin is one of my favorite singers. ;-)

    December 19, 2007

  • reesetee commented on the list real-names

    I once encountered a mother in a clothing store who was scolding her daughter, Zucchina, for misbehaving. My friend and I somehow managed to avoid bursting into laughter until after we left the store. But we wonder to this day what Zucchina's little brother was named.

    December 19, 2007

  • bilby commented on the list real-names

    Zucchinello.

    December 19, 2007

  • reesetee commented on the list real-names

    I thought maybe Squash.

    December 19, 2007

  • skipvia commented on the list real-names

    Ha! That reminds me of a local Ester, AK character (recently deceased) named Al Zucchini. Everyone called him Shorty. I don't know why I didn't add him to this list before.

    December 20, 2007

  • arcadia commented on the list real-names

    My friend had a classmate named "Wayne Dwop". -Not 100% sure on the spelling of the last name, but apparently a common sir name in parts of Asia.

    Also, my aunt has an elderly friend named "Rosey Pamler", which is just dirty.

    December 20, 2007

  • rolig commented on the list real-names

    I had a classmate in high school named April Storms.

    December 22, 2007

  • skipvia commented on the list real-names

    Added, rolig. Thanks.

    December 23, 2007

  • bilby commented on the list real-names

    One of the real characters of English soccer is a player by the name of Dean Windass.

    I'm glad, for the sake of air quality, he didn't end up marrying Ms. Belcher.

    December 29, 2007

  • bilby commented on the list real-names

    I could also put in a word for Captain John Thomas Bumpass although he wasn't known to me personally.

    January 1, 2008

  • oroboros commented on the list real-names

    A great book for many more:"Bertha Venation: And Hundreds of Other Funny Names of Real People"

    January 6, 2008

  • asativum commented on the list real-names

    Spencer Honey was a state official in Arkansas. Very tall, solidly built man. Always felt odd asking for him on the phone. Oh, and I was once in a school where there were two students, both girls, named Unique.

    Others I've met: Shannon Doah, Obadiah Butterworth, Dixie Land and Abby Rhodes.

    January 28, 2008

  • bilby commented on the list real-names

    Can I slip in a Ruth Rutherford?

    June 24, 2008

  • frogapplause commented on the list real-names

    All true, I swear. In middle school, I was in a class with four kids whose names were a perfect storm. Cindy Odor and Cindy Pugh sat in the front of the classroom... and the Butt brothers, Jim and Tim, sat in back. The Cindys were okay, but I couldn't stand the Butt brothers.

    Also, true: There was a DARE officer I knew whose last name was Pigg. Officer Pigg.

    June 24, 2008

  • dontcry commented on the list real-names

    Really true names:

    Dr. Bonebreak = my kid's orthodontist

    Dr. Paine = anesthesiologist for my knee surgery

    June 24, 2008

  • bilby commented on the list real-names

    frogorama, is this the first time you've revealed all about your Butt-Odor childhood problem?

    June 24, 2008

  • skipvia commented on the list real-names

    Bilby, FA and DC--I've made this an open list so that you'll get credit for your wonderful contributions. Have a field day!

    The Butt Brothers?

    June 24, 2008

  • frogapplause commented on the list real-names

    skipvia: Is "The Butt Brothers?" your new wordie catchphrase? See my new catchphrase list.

    June 24, 2008

  • frogapplause commented on the list real-names

    Mary Ann Apple

    June 24, 2008

  • sionnach commented on the list real-names

    I have to disagree with Oroboros on the quality of the book "Bertha Venation":

    amazon review

    June 24, 2008

  • johnmperry commented on the list real-names

    Norwegian tennis ace Bent-Ove Pedersen

    August 25, 2008

  • madmouth commented on the list real-names

    We can't be forgetting Praise-God Barebone!

    April 30, 2009

  • madmouth commented on the list real-names

    what about extraordinary names ESL students give themselves?

    I had a Napoleon, Cherry, Miffy and Candy in the same class. Now, those last three aren't that weird alone but somehow, I couldn't stop thinking of them as Cherry, Miffy and Candy.

    June 5, 2009