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i worked with a rod woodcock and a rod grabeldinger.

i am not in the porn industry.

― brian badword (badwords), Friday, 2 May 2003 05:46 (twenty-two years ago)

I can't find a direct link, but the Annals of Improbable Research reported on a researcher whose name on his passport literally reads "Odd Person."

That sounds Scandinavian, for instance Norwegian -- yes indeed! There are also a few people who are named Per Person. And to even out the oddness a bit, there are these people...

― OleM (OleM), Friday, 2 May 2003 06:41 (twenty-two years ago)

Through friends I've also heard about one R3idar Cæsar Lan9balle Par0di, whose last two names literally read like "Longballs Parody".

― OleM (OleM), Friday, 2 May 2003 06:47 (twenty-two years ago)

three weeks pass...

I honest to God just sent a big stack of HTML files to Tim Plate.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 18:09 (twenty-two years ago)

This guy on my street is named Charlie Dickout. I'm not sure if that's how you spell it but it's definitely how you pronounce it.

― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 18:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Laszlo Fuchs, who's a matematician, is one of my faves.

I've met a few people called Miss Ng around Cardiff, how do you say that?

― mei (mei), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 18:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Boutros Boutros Ghali

― DV (dirtyvicar), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 19:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh man oh man, RADEK BONK - player for the Ottowa Senators! In fact, hockey players have the highest rate of excellent names of any sport. Bonk's is the only one I can recall.

― Fivvy (Fivvy), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 19:17 (twenty-two years ago)

I think there's probably about a million people named Miss Ng in Vietnam, it's a pretty common Southeast Asian name. Not sure how it's pronounced though, maybe "Ing"?

― NA. (Nick A.), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 19:35 (twenty-two years ago)

No, it's like the end of that, like ung without the vowel at the start.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 19:38 (twenty-two years ago)

they might be giants to thread.

― martin m. (mushrush), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 19:39 (twenty-two years ago)

They pronounced it "Ing" in that song.

― NA. (Nick A.), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 19:43 (twenty-two years ago)

it's more like "eng" with a short "e"

it's pronounced correctly in the song as far as I know. I'm listening to it now, and I know someone with that last name who says it that way too.

― martin m. (mushrush), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 19:47 (twenty-two years ago)

The guy I was at uni with, Yao Ng, pronounced it without any real hint of a vowel at the start of it. (The first name was like yow!)

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 19:52 (twenty-two years ago)

(heh heh, a few people I know have nicknamed me "Boutros")

― M Matos (M Matos), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 19:54 (twenty-two years ago)

My best friend from school, Nellie, has just had a baby daughter, who has been given a name fit for showbiz because of mom and dad's surnames being joined: Bella Wild-Young.

― suzy (suzy), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 20:04 (twenty-two years ago)

Jon Tickle!

Ever since I read one of those Big Brother threads, this name has made laugh. It's just weird.

― Nicole (Nicole), Friday, 30 May 2003 12:57 (twenty-two years ago)

three weeks pass...

Chip Masterbone

This may be the greatest name ever, based on the last name alone.

― Nicole (Nicole), Friday, 20 June 2003 11:32 (twenty-two years ago)

Isambard Kingdom Brunel

― rener (rener), Friday, 20 June 2003 12:04 (twenty-two years ago)

Isambard Kingdom Brunel.

― rener (rener), Friday, 20 June 2003 12:04 (twenty-two years ago)

wi wi wang

― Tad (llamasfur), Saturday, 21 June 2003 12:13 (twenty-two years ago)

went to school with a guy named Vaughn Buffalo
had a college roommate named Wister Walcott
there's always Judge Learned Hand (supreme ct. justice and baseball commissioner) and Thelonious Sphere Monk
my wife claims to have known a girl named Crystal Lear whose middle name was (wait for it) Shanda

― Neudonym, Saturday, 21 June 2003 12:35 (twenty-two years ago)

actually, learned hand never made it to the U.S. Supreme Ct. -- he was stalled at the 2d Cir. Court of Appeals. but it is a great name for a judge (is tracer any relation?)

― Tad (llamasfur), Saturday, 21 June 2003 12:37 (twenty-two years ago)

lasagna jones

― Tad (llamasfur), Saturday, 21 June 2003 12:38 (twenty-two years ago)

I bow before Tad's knowledge of the career trajectory of Learned Hand

― Neudonym, Saturday, 21 June 2003 12:41 (twenty-two years ago)

Washington Munoz

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 21 June 2003 12:46 (twenty-two years ago)

junior high students I taught in NYC:
Fithi Asfaha
Claribel Torres
Will Beans
Saul Schulman (not such a wacky name but ace because he was such a great basketball player he earned the nickname "Soul" which makes it into Saul "Soul" Schulman which you will admit is the best name ever)
Yajaira Chanlatte
Yuki Kokubo

― Neudonym, Saturday, 21 June 2003 12:50 (twenty-two years ago)

Saul "Soul"

Was he a member of the Saul "Soul" Orchestra?

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 21 June 2003 13:40 (twenty-two years ago)

as a 4'6" junior high point guard, he was both nice and naasty

― Neudonym, Saturday, 21 June 2003 13:42 (twenty-two years ago)

six months pass...

More names from a day's worth of data entry:

sk1tch henders0n
jul1a sprunt grumb1es

― Darcus How? (nordicskilla), Friday, 16 January 2004 23:08 (twenty-one years ago)

four months pass...

All hail Lieutenant Commander FLEX PLEXICO! (Read towards the end of the article.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 1 June 2004 02:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Follow your heart and it will lead you to...NORTH KOREA.

And in keeping with the thread's spirit. I know a fellow named Hatteras Hoops. I always thought it was some kind of a nickname until the local paper printed it as such.

― jim wentworth (wench), Tuesday, 1 June 2004 02:37 (twenty-one years ago)

There's a wide receiver what plays for the Pittsburg Steelers name of Plaxico Burress.

― Lazer Guided Mellow Leee (Leee), Tuesday, 1 June 2004 03:12 (twenty-one years ago)

I love threads like this, I am reduced to helpless giggling.

I think I mentioned the one time I was at a speech about women in the church, held by Gay Priest, didnt I?

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 1 June 2004 03:31 (twenty-one years ago)

US Army Lieutenant General Joseph "Keith" Kellogg Jnr.

― Pack Yr Romantic Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 1 June 2004 05:28 (twenty-one years ago)

four months pass...

Kenesaw Mountain Landis.

― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 5 October 2004 22:29 (twenty years ago)

Dion DiMucci.

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Wednesday, 6 October 2004 03:43 (twenty years ago)

Suke Driver

― mei (mei), Wednesday, 6 October 2004 12:55 (twenty years ago)

Anne Cakebread

― mei (mei), Wednesday, 6 October 2004 12:55 (twenty years ago)

People who may be coming to my conference next year:
Inger Assarson
Dr Hen
Dr Panda

I am also in email contact with a person whose name comes up as RETARD (in caps) in my inbox.

― Madchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 6 October 2004 14:27 (twenty years ago)

I tell a lie, it's RETARDED

― Madchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 6 October 2004 14:27 (twenty years ago)

Mike Bates is the obvious one; Mr. Bates / Mr. Bates until he was about 16

I taught a little girl name Temi Toby Tupe-Tukan
I taught a little boy named Josue Louis-Jean Lean
I taught a little boy named Edgar Marigold
I taught with a terrible woman named Jen Kelley, and after a while I called her Ken Jelly to be an asshole.

― Remy (x Jeremy), Wednesday, 6 October 2004 14:32 (twenty years ago)

three months pass...

do opera people (or just Europeans?) have the greatest names ever...

Herbert von Karajan
Kiri Te Kanawa
Frederica von Stade
Montserrat Cabballé
Lauritz Melchior
Fritz Kreisler
Kirsten Flagstad
Birgit Nilsson
Kathleen Battle
Jose Carreras
Maria Callas
Sir Georg Solti
Leontyne Price
Nicolai Gedda
Tatiana Troyanos
Renata Scotto
Aprile Millo
Claudio Abbado
Placido Domingo
Tito Gobbi
Giuseppe Sinopoli
Joan Sutherland
Hermann Prey
Leonie Rysanek
Samuel Ramey
Hakan Hagegard
Paul Plishka
Catherine Malfitano
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
Wilhelm Furtwangler
Anne Sofie von Otter
Harolyn Blackwell
Karl Bohme
Hildegard Behrens
Luciano Pavarotti
Franco Zeffirelli
Siegfried Jerusalem

or is it just the tone in which they are spoken?

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 04:47 (twenty years ago)

I went to high school with a Ralph Waldo Trueblood IV

Also: Zbigniew Brzezinski

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 04:53 (twenty years ago)

King Zog (Ahmed Bey Zogu) of Albania owns this thread.

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 04:54 (twenty years ago)

I forgot this was the great-as-in-funny names thread as opposed to the great-as-in-great names thread

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 05:09 (twenty years ago)

There was a patient called C. Lowe the other day and I kept roffling.

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 05:22 (twenty years ago)

I used to know a Brazilian guy whose first name was Ben-Hur

― Japanese Giraffe (Japanese Giraffe), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 14:03 (twenty years ago)

I had a job stuffing envelopes this one time. An applicant to a medical course at a well-known university was called A. R. KANE!!!!
Y-E-S!!!

― Miles Finch, Wednesday, 26 January 2005 14:07 (twenty years ago)

Journeyman baseball player Wonderful Terrific Monds III to thread!

― Daniel Cohen (dayan), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 14:22 (twenty years ago)

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