most unfortunate name ever?

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― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 20:35 (twenty-two years ago)

aka Captain Unpopular!

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 20:35 (twenty-two years ago)

hello, this is stunning!

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 21:03 (twenty-two years ago)

I still prefer Ivor Kumquat.

― Lara (Lara), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 22:06 (twenty-two years ago)

What about Dick Assman?

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 22:17 (twenty-two years ago)

What about him?!

― Lara (Lara), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 22:18 (twenty-two years ago)

That's a much more unfortunate name than Osama Arafat.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 22:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Pilot Inspektor.

― Nicolars (Nicole), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 22:21 (twenty-two years ago)

That's the greatest name for an electroclash band ever.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 22:22 (twenty-two years ago)

My colleague Nicholas Crotch wasn't that lucky in his name.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 22:24 (twenty-two years ago)

I work with a chap called Gareth Keenan.

― Lara (Lara), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 22:25 (twenty-two years ago)

He could have been Richard Crotch.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 22:25 (twenty-two years ago)

"My friends call me Itchy."

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 22:26 (twenty-two years ago)

He could have been Richard Crotch.

But his parents were Mr and Mrs Keenan?

― Lara (Lara), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 22:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Richard Head taught photography at my HS.

― Leee (Leee), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 22:28 (twenty-two years ago)

MADE UP!

― Lara (Lara), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 22:29 (twenty-two years ago)

s1utsky to thread!

(although I like his name!!)

― adaml (adaml), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 22:30 (twenty-two years ago)

There was a guidance counsellor at my high school named Burl Dick.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 22:30 (twenty-two years ago)

imagine having a family name based on a fish.

my brother's best friend in high school was named Chuck Trout. For Realz.

― Kingfish (Kingfish), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 22:30 (twenty-two years ago)

I know a girl called A*lish Hoare.

― Lara (Lara), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 22:32 (twenty-two years ago)

My dad works with someone called Alan Sad1ck.

― adaml (adaml), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 22:33 (twenty-two years ago)

My name is Sukme Kokrhing.

― Lara (Lara), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 22:35 (twenty-two years ago)

My friends used to get mail addressed to their apartment's old tenant, a Ms Lisa Kuntz.

― adam (adam), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 22:36 (twenty-two years ago)

― Magnum Schwantz (Leee), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 22:36 (twenty-two years ago)

I met a girl whose email address was ho @ bu.edu a few years ago.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 22:37 (twenty-two years ago)

i wish i could find a link to the racing commentator willie strokes.

― jed (jed_e_3), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 22:38 (twenty-two years ago)

also my friend knew a canadian oriental woman called isa ho.

― jed (jed_e_3), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 22:39 (twenty-two years ago)

Seaman Staynes, Master Bates.

― Lara (Lara), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 22:39 (twenty-two years ago)

In high school I knew a girl whose dad was named Harry Beaver. Indeed.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 22:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Also, there's a violinmaker in Skokie named Peter Seman.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 22:40 (twenty-two years ago)

my ex-girlfriend's ex-boyfriend's father was called Richard Head. not made up.

― the surface noise (electricsound), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 22:41 (twenty-two years ago)

and i have encountered at least one real person with the surname "Bastard" (although the pronunciation is kinda different)

― the surface noise (electricsound), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 22:42 (twenty-two years ago)

It was pronounced "Kok-lik."

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 22:43 (twenty-two years ago)

i knew a richard crotch.

― jed (jed_e_3), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 22:45 (twenty-two years ago)

My step-grandparent in law is actually called "1saac D1ck".

― adaml (adaml), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 22:45 (twenty-two years ago)

i know someone called Loan Ho. no they're not a pimp, unfortunately.

― the surface noise (electricsound), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 22:47 (twenty-two years ago)

One of my friends once interviewed an unfortunate called Hitan Mistry.

― Lara (Lara), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 22:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Classic cricket commentary moment: Peter Willey (I'm not sure if it was spelt that way or not now) must have had stick at times, but when facing West Indies pace bowler Michael Holding one day the commentator said "The bowler is Holding, the batsman's Willey," after which all you could hear for a while was giggling.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 22:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Well it's is an anticlimax after that, but my landlady told me tonight that the church up on Holloway Road used to have a pastor named D. E. Sperate.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 23:41 (twenty-two years ago)

I think I've mentioned this one on another thread but there was this woman who did a Rotary talk on women in the church and her name was Gay Priest. I am not making this up, I was there.

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 23:56 (twenty-two years ago)

There's a gardening presenter on TV called Gay Search. Honestly!

FWIW, I g@@gled that by using the word gardening as well.

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 30 October 2003 00:01 (twenty-two years ago)

With a name like Gay Search, she could only be working in gardening....or the Vice Squad

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Thursday, 30 October 2003 00:05 (twenty-two years ago)

someone sent me a link of a picture of a sports presenter who calls himself Willie Stroker. Why would you shorten your name to that??

― dog latin, Thursday, 30 October 2003 00:07 (twenty-two years ago)

maybe 'willie' is short for 'willyoupleasebemypenis'.

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 30 October 2003 00:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Working his way out of the porn industry, apparently

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Thursday, 30 October 2003 00:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Mr. R. Sole

― Ben Mott (Ben Mott), Thursday, 30 October 2003 00:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Baby Jane Clinton - Lewinski

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Thursday, 30 October 2003 00:16 (twenty-two years ago)

The last time I was in the airport, Air Canada paged "Richard and Gaye Mann." I tried very hard not to laugh.

― Jodi (Celerina), Thursday, 30 October 2003 01:16 (twenty-two years ago)

This is the post where I say again that my best friend when I was younger was named Jacqu3 Har3 and everybody, including his mom, pronounced his first name as Jock.

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 30 October 2003 01:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Phuc Yu

― donut bitch (donut), Thursday, 30 October 2003 01:30 (twenty-two years ago)

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There was a kid in my high school with the same name who actually did go by "Mike." I never figured out if he was a discipline problem or what, but he got called to the office fairly often for a while by an assistant who didn't seem to notice what it sounded like when she said "Mike Hunt."

― martin m. (mushrush), Monday, 14 June 2004 21:11 (twenty-one years ago)

I once met a woman named DeBreeze who worked at the landfill. I shit you not.

― Maria D., Monday, 14 June 2004 22:30 (twenty-one years ago)

In the Norwich, England phone book ca. 2002: Richard Ramsbottom.

― x Jeremy (Atila the Honeybun), Monday, 14 June 2004 22:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Holden Cox

― the surface noise and the analogue warmth (electricsound), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 01:27 (twenty-one years ago)

There was a senator from Texas, I believe, named Hogg who named his daughter Ima. (My mom told me this years ago, so debunk it if you can.)
I know a family with the surname Matthews who named their son Matthew. He is known as Matt Matt.
I dated a man named Brendan E. Tween who was offended when I pointed out that his initials = between.He was arbitrary and non-committal.
There are so many names in Muslim culture that don't reflect an agreement with a surname - I'm waiting for a Yasser O'Reilly or a Sadaam Sevenski to be the child on the playground.
And the hippie names...
Forest Green?

― aimurchie, Tuesday, 15 June 2004 01:48 (twenty-one years ago)

I knew a real life Oliver Sudden.

― jim wentworth (wench), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 02:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Also, my brother and sister-in-law are good friends with the Turnipseed family. Apparently the dad was a Major General in the US military - how could anyone take saluting a Turnipseed seriously?
How can anyone take Bush seriously - beyond politics, it's a ridiculous name. Shrub. Whatevah.

― aimurchie, Tuesday, 15 June 2004 13:23 (twenty-one years ago)

my mum is friends with someone called Barbara Badger. I know it's not the most unfortunate name ever but it has a certain quiet beauty about it. more so when you consider that she actually married into it. I hope at least one of her children is called Brian.

― kathryn m (kathryn m), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 13:59 (twenty-one years ago)

jeremy, Ramsbottom is not that uncommon, it's also a place in Lancashire

― chris (chris), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 14:02 (twenty-one years ago)

in fact there are lots of surnames ending -bottom, other examples being Robottom and (my favourite) Shufflebottom.

Ian Botham's surname should properly be pronounced Bottom too.

― MarkH (MarkH), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 14:04 (twenty-one years ago)

..someone I worked with claimed to know an Ophelia Ball.

― MarkH (MarkH), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 14:05 (twenty-one years ago)

and cricketer Arnie Sidebottom

― chris (chris), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 14:08 (twenty-one years ago)

any relation?

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/stoopid/littlefrank.gif

― MarkH (MarkH), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 14:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Inger Assarson

― Madchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 14:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Famous hereabouts: Fonda D1x.

I've also met a young lady with the unfortunate first name Latrina.

― briania (briania), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 14:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Dick Hurtz...from Holden.

― AaronK (AaronK), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 16:27 (twenty-one years ago)

I saw this unfortunate journalist on a news channel once and never forgot him.

― syntaxfree (syntaxfree), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 16:42 (twenty-one years ago)

One of my college roommates has the last name Bienstock. She married a Waxman. People now refer to them as the Waxed Beans.

― Maria D., Tuesday, 15 June 2004 19:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Not quite on a par with the rest of this thread, but a couple of weeks at work ago, I got a letter from a financial adviser called Rob Banks. Which may also be his financial advice, who can tell?

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 19:53 (twenty-one years ago)

i guess i'm right out of this one.

― fortunate hazel (f. hazel), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 20:16 (twenty-one years ago)

The pharmacist I used to go to is named Rodney Deal. (Which is to say his name is Rod Deal.)

― martin m. (mushrush), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 23:06 (twenty-one years ago)

You won't believe me but I went to school with Wayne Kerr. Absolutely straight up, swear on Ned's grave etc.

― holojames (holojames), Friday, 18 June 2004 22:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Good thing this guy isn't in the UK

― beanz (beanz), Friday, 18 June 2004 22:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Haha... doesn't help that he's a horrible weatherman with the personality of, say, tofu.

― x Jeremy (Atila the Honeybun), Friday, 18 June 2004 22:48 (twenty-one years ago)

The priest at my parent's church is named Felix Orji (pronounced 'orgy'). He is from Nigeria.

― Gilles Meloche (Gilles Meloche), Saturday, 19 June 2004 02:09 (twenty-one years ago)

one of my students is named: X.... Anylusse. Prononced "Anal-Loose." In fifth grade, she wore a shirt stating "not everything in Kansas is flat!" on Thursday.

― x Jeremy (Atila the Honeybun), Saturday, 19 June 2004 02:31 (twenty-one years ago)

I knew a woman named Analise (Anal-lease), almost as bad.

What about goofy hippie parent given names? I knew a woman named Morningsong.

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Saturday, 19 June 2004 02:56 (twenty-one years ago)

I haven't read this thread at all but at work I found that we have a new employee starting in July whose name is K3ndr4 McAn4lly-Dick3y. For serious.

― adam (adam), Saturday, 19 June 2004 03:54 (twenty-one years ago)

one year passes...

i got my gas pumped by dick assman this morning. he's at the petro canada at the south end of albert, by the co-op gas station and, i think, roughly across the street from the canadian tire. i got ten bucks of regular cause i'm broke and just needed to get to moose jaw. i tucked a toonie from the center console in the ten dollar bill and he took it and said he'd come back and clean my windows after he got done with the lady parked beside me. when he came back, he said, "thanks for the tip!" and started doing the windows. he did every single sheet of glass except for the driver's side window that was rolled down.

i just barely remember seeing him on the show. mostly local news stories about him shortly after i moved back to canada. but his nametag said DICK. he looked so so old. damp blue eyes and baggy grey skin. when he was done, i said, "are you the guy who was on the late show?"
"yeah.... letterman?"
"yeah."
"yeauhh."
"cool."
"hehe hehe hehe yeaauhhh."
"do you still get recognized a lot?"
"oh yeaauhhhh. even when i'm in the mall or anythin."
"cool. cool."
"hehe have a good day."
"yep!"

― 3333333333, Thursday, 23 March 2006 18:17 (twenty years ago)

My partner knows a family of Snowballs.

One of our customers is called Alistair Bastard.

And one of our Dutch work counterparts is allegedly called Ben De Kok. (sp) I don't know if that one's too good to be true.

― Rumpie (lil drummer girl parumpumpumpu), Thursday, 23 March 2006 18:27 (twenty years ago)

I know a guy named P@t__McCr@cken.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Thursday, 23 March 2006 18:40 (twenty years ago)

R0ger J 0rgan. I think, and maybe he does too, that the J adds a touch of class.
And I went to school with Ph1l Mccracken. True. Never knew there was a joke in there until I heard it used in a prank phonecall in a bar in Edinburgh. The barman shouted out "PH1L MCCRACKEN?" and a woman at a nearby table said "Oh,what an unfortunate name."

― dr lulu (dr lulu), Thursday, 23 March 2006 20:42 (twenty years ago)

I went to school with a girl whose name was Dorfus, I guess it is a name from the bible or something. She went by DeeDee though.

― svend (svend), Thursday, 23 March 2006 21:48 (twenty years ago)

Oh I guess this was the place to tell the Sage Coon and Gay Lenses stories.

― Allyzay Rofflesberger (allyzay), Thursday, 23 March 2006 21:52 (twenty years ago)

three years pass...

I've just come across a Malaysian lady by the name of Men Chuin Kok.

― Madchen, Friday, 18 December 2009 12:31 (sixteen years ago)

: D

― kingkongvsgodzilla, Friday, 18 December 2009 12:37 (sixteen years ago)

Someone at my school was called B3n Dick.

― HUH? not appropriate (snoball), Friday, 18 December 2009 13:08 (sixteen years ago)

HS psychology teacher: Richard Koch, who insisted on being called Dick.

― special vixens unit (suzy), Friday, 18 December 2009 13:12 (sixteen years ago)

One place where I worked had a German client called Dr Fuch5. He didn't know either, possibly because he had an explosive temper and no-one wanted to break it to him.

― HUH? not appropriate (snoball), Friday, 18 December 2009 13:18 (sixteen years ago)

one of my students calls herself mango but spells it on facebook as mangoo ie man goo

― 囧 (dyao), Friday, 18 December 2009 13:19 (sixteen years ago)

Also there was a French guy called Mister Mel0n.

― HUH? not appropriate (snoball), Friday, 18 December 2009 13:20 (sixteen years ago)

I have also seen one 'Dickson Poon' on facebook

― 囧 (dyao), Friday, 18 December 2009 13:21 (sixteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wB21owPHD04

― HUH? not appropriate (snoball), Friday, 18 December 2009 13:23 (sixteen years ago)

There's at least one person in Finland called Anu Saukko. Now, Anu is common female name here, and "saukko" means "otter", but if you pronounce the name without a pause it's "anusaukko", which means "anus hole".

― Tuomas, Friday, 18 December 2009 13:24 (sixteen years ago)

Well, Dick Koch was the guy who assigned us Pee-Wee's Big Adventure for weekend "homework" and despite 'call me Dick' was kind of a d00d.

― special vixens unit (suzy), Friday, 18 December 2009 13:26 (sixteen years ago)

A few years ago I used to live near a cafe named "Anu's Cafe". I guess it was ran by someone called Anu.

― Tuomas, Friday, 18 December 2009 13:32 (sixteen years ago)

one of my students calls herself mango but spells it on facebook as mangoo ie man goo

http://www.morethings.com/fan/saturday_night_live/snl_photos/mango.gif

― james cameron gargameled my boner for life (Pancakes Hackman), Friday, 18 December 2009 13:57 (sixteen years ago)

thirteen years pass...

Ray Jackendoff

― Tapioca by Jean Sibelius (Boring, Maryland), Friday, 8 December 2023 18:33 (two years ago)

Patterns In The Mind is one of the best ways in to linguistics (as opposed to Pinker for example) but yes, he has a funny name.

― the world is your octopus (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 8 December 2023 18:38 (two years ago)

I once knew a guy named Doug Updegrave

― out-of-print LaserDisc edition (sleeve), Friday, 8 December 2023 18:42 (two years ago)

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