Great Real Names

there was this weird, eccentric (and pretty awesome kid) whose real name was Franz Jean, but he went by John (and of course his last name was pronounced "Zyon"), so essentially his name sounded like John John when the teacher called on him.

also i met a guy named Justin Bieber today. god I feel sorry for him

Foeke Booy

just think, if he was japanese or hungarian he wd be booy foeke

Mel Drybread

Kest3r Br1ght

Prest0n C@nn0n

Learned of both names through various office email networks, never met either.

Just out of curiosity, has anyone ever spoken up and said they KNEW one of the people/names posted here?

Take your pick:

http://img35.imageshack.us/img35/9963/vlcsnap2010042822h05m41.jpg

My favorites are Jane Murfin and Van Nest Polglase

Coffee Wang

I dunno about Wagstaff-Gribble, it sounds like a rare nervous condition that makes people spill food out of their mouths when they eat.

I want to make a poll out of that list of names.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odd_Bull

was a vox pop with a woman called Gay Power on the channel 4 news earlier.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=126606650&ft=1&f=1003

I win.

The work experience kid in here today is called D@ve Dull@rd. How does a family get a surname like that?

http://i.imgur.com/R3X4k.jpg

I once bought pot from a girl by the name of Nuss, who enjoyed mentioning that her parents' names were Pete and Anna: P. Nuss and A. Nuss

Esa-Pekka Salonen

holy shit @ hyman shocker

I bet he gets that a lot.

palindrome!

http://www.facebook.com/people/Eduardo-Odraude/592322555

Brazilian-American percussionist Duduka da Fonseca!

What's so odd about "Esa-Pekka Salonen"? It's a perfectly common Finnish name.

Salonen sounds a bit like 'saline', as in saline implants that a lady might use to enhance her breasts, which are a rude and amusing part of the body

Sounds kinda stretched.

A classic (if unfortunate) confluence of story and reporter: Vienna Boys’ Choir caught up in sex abuse scandals, written by Roger Boyse.

I work with a person with the last name Fartass. I think it's pronounced far-taus or something. Whatever, it's fart-ass to me.

http://web.minorleaguebaseball.com/milb/stats/stats.jsp?pos=&sid=milb&t=p_pbp&pid=572171

Zowie Sharples

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/manchester/10368990.stm

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm3951187/resume

Prior Job Title 2: Oral english teacher

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban_Shocker

I think he should have gone with Urbane Shocker. Seems cooler. And more phonetically correct.

Was looking up some Dodgers stats the other day and came across Oyster Burns.

Don't know about more phonetically correct, JM. The presence of the middle name Jacques would suggest Urbain should be pronounced the French way, which is way closer to Urban than Urbane.

I work at a call center. A recent goody was "V1dy4 An4nth4n4n4r4y4n4n".

I also like the name of the composer Vagn Holmboe. If the way I think it's pronounced is correct, it sounds like the surname of a German nobleman-turned-90s rapper.

i met someone with the last name D3wd@t

Dew-dat, dew-dat, dew-dew-dat-dat-dat

Pr0bal H0que

http://wearecentralpa.com/wtaj-news-fulltext/?nxd_id=203465

Mirinda & Sam Boob, Kermit Butts

Ferit Licka

In June 1915, Walter Kirke, deputy head of military intelligence at GHQ France, wrote in his diary that Mansfield Cumming, the first chief (or C) of the SIS was "making enquiries for invisible inks at the London University".

In October he noted that he "heard from C that the best invisible ink is semen", which did not react to the main methods of detection. Furthermore it had the advantage of being readily available.

Sh1rley F0rehand

Guy M@nl0ve

no mention so far of Ed Wood repertory player Dudley Manlove?

Kermit D3err

Guy B@tm@an

lol my inept googleproofing

Mary-Jane Budd
http://www.essex.ac.uk/psychology/department/people/budd.html

Marijuana Sawyer
http://www.uww.edu/advising/aaec/welcome/staff/sawyer.html

Mar1juana *Pepsi* Sawyer to you