Real Unfortunate / Amusing People's Names

[U-15]

The imagination and wordsmith skills of the Subsim community are truly admirable.
This set me thinking about a thread for real unfortunate or amusing people's names.
The defining factor here, that they be real names that you have come across.

I will kick off with one unfortunate and one amusing.

This one has been in my memory for yonks:
The 1878 FA Cup Final between Wanderers and Royal Engineers was refereed by - S.R. Bastard

As a postman I once delivered to a chap called Mr F. Aart (Dutch I believe).

So over to you maestros :o

[Wolferz]

Ben Dover. I think he has a brother named Richard.

[Eichhörnchen]

True this: I worked in an office in the days when everything about the clients was still all on paper in cardboard folders. One day a pal came in barely able to speak; he chucked the folder he was carrying onto my desk. It belonged to a Mr Helmut Wankmuller...

[Jeff-Groves]

I still can't get past Ahmed Aboutaleb!
Where the hell is he going?
:har:

[Eichhörnchen]

My brother-in-law went to school with Wayne Kerr...

[U-15]

A supermarket assistant I came across was called:

Lee King.

And no she wasn't Eichhornchen, before you ask :stare:

[Rockstar]

It was most ceratinly a sad occasion for many. Names were fake yet to everyones amazement reporters, nation wide, as usual having no interest or real knowledge of what it was they were reporting on just rolled with it.

Go ahead call me a bad person but I laughed my butt off when I saw it.

http://i1196.photobucket.com/albums/aa408/jky242/88ed6c60ef6c6f77f910a0c208f5f4ad.jpg

[fireftr18]

It was most ceratinly a sad occasion for many. Names were fake yet to everyones amazement reporters, nation wide, as usual having no interest or real knowledge of what it was they were reporting on just rolled with it.

Go ahead call me a bad person but I laughed my butt off when I saw it.

http://i1196.photobucket.com/albums/aa408/jky242/88ed6c60ef6c6f77f910a0c208f5f4ad.jpg

If I called you a bad person over this, then I would be calling myself a bad person.
:k_rofl:

[Eichhörnchen]

This, unfortunately isn't a real name: an Irish heart surgeon named Angie O'Plasty

[Jeff-Groves]

Original post asked for REAL names you came across.
And how do We know some Chinese family didn't freak over those names?
:har:

[Tango589]

This, unfortunately isn't a real name: an Irish heart surgeon named Angie O'Plasty
And her sister Patty O'Doors

[Eichhörnchen]

I knew a bloke down the pub named Egbert. None of us knew his full name and he had a sister. She liked me! We called her "Egbert's sister".

[U-15]

I have a relative by marriage who is C. Lyons

and

a regular in one of my drinking haunts in the 80s was a Cliff Edge.
True, there is no point in making 'em up !! :stare:

As Eichhornchen points out in his post, some parents don't think about the consequences of giving names to their kids.
http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=217346&page=13

Johnny Cash and "A Boy Named Sue"
Good sung with a real meaning to it

[Wolferz]

I had a Staff Sergeant in the Army named Larry Creek. His wife's name was Sandy.:O:

[Jeff-Groves]

I know a guy named Donny Stonerock.
I asked him if his Dad and Mom's name was Fred and Wilma.
He got real pissed!
:har:

[U-15]

Love it Wolferz.

Reminds me of a lass from Post Office in the Nottingham area, back in the 90s; her surname was Sheriff.
Ok, nothing in that except her husband was a policeman.

There's more to come, his oppo in the patrol car was named Marshall.

You couldn't make it up better

[Jeff-Groves]

So he was the sheriff of Nottingham?
:har:

[U-15]

So he was the sheriff of Nottingham?
:har:

It's strange Jeff, in that I never looked at it like that.
My wife says I often miss the most obvious thing especially when answering TV quizzes

[Jeff-Groves]

I'm often told I'm a master of the unobvious.
:O:

I can recall the first shuttle blowing up as I was watching it.
Someone asked what NASA ment.
I wasn't as quick as another but had the same thought.
Need Another Seven Astronauts.

[Admiral Halsey]

Remember reading a news story about a woman who named her Daughter S h i thead. She pronounced it Shi-Theed.

[Red October1984]

Remember reading a news story about a woman who named her Daughter S h i thead. She pronounced it Shi-Theed.

Heard about that one...there was somebody in my area that had that one I do believe.

[Jeff-Groves]

Heard about that one...there was somebody in my area that had that one I do believe.

Did you try to run over them in the Focus?
:haha:

[razark]

This is Ima. She was the daughter of a Texas governor, Jim Hogg.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/93/ImaHogg.jpg/220px-ImaHogg.jpg
"She endeavored to downplay her unusual name by signing her first name illegibly and having her stationery printed with 'I. Hogg' or 'Miss Hogg'."

[vienna]

About a month ago, I had to make a trip to the local Emergency Room. The name of the doctor who tended to me: Dr. Butcher...


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[Stealhead]

In the the Air Force certain dutch names can be unfortunate. For example have a buddy name is Vanderzwagg. That got messed up and turned round so much he just went by Dutch in fact he used that name and would not answer to Hus first name which he disliked.

Knew another last name Updergraff means lives near a grave in Dutch anyway again got so messed up he just went by Up. Third last name was Lao had more letters than the limit of 14 for uniform name tapes so he was Alphabet.

[Buddahaid]

And her sister Patty O'Doors

Reminds me of what's Irish and stays outdoors?

Paddy O'Furniture


I think the funniest real name I came across was seeing a Drs. personal parking place at Kaiser Vallejo. Dr. Coffin.

[Sailor Steve]

When I was in Radio School in the navy I knew a guy whose first name was Urmal. Later I had a shipmate named Veryl. Both went by "Butch".

Later on I knew a woman who said her son was the only solid thing in her life, so she named the poor kid Concrete.

[fireftr18]

I remember back in my early firefighter days. There was a group called Mister Mister (yes, that is two "misters"). They had a song called "Broken Wing."
Now while in an emergency room, one of the nurses was talking about a kid who was there with a broken arm. The kid's last name was Mister. His dad brought him in and was in the waiting room when he was ready.

[Stealhead]

Later on I knew a woman who said her son was the only solid thing in her life, so she named the poor kid Concrete.
:hmmm:
Wouldn't be so bad if his last name was Mason. Or change his last name to Mixer.

[d@rk51d3]

Makes me laugh, every time.

http://youtu.be/StAozUpSnSQ

[Wolferz]

When my mom married my dad, she became Iona Newhouse.
She always went by her middle name.:yep:

[U-15]

An estate agents based in Kidderminster (Worcestershire):

Welcome to Doolittle & Dalley..
http://doolittle-dalley.co.uk/

[Eichhörnchen]

You know when you have to enter a New Profile Name at the start of a newly purchased pc game; I have a short list of favourites I draw from, just so I can get on with play:

Ben Dover (already mentioned); Ivor Biggun; Ivor (something I'm not allowed to say, but dogs bury them and there's an R on the end); Hugh Janus; Ivan Ellovanitch and Laika Legova.

[Sailor Steve]

The defining factor here, that they be real names that you have come across.
Did we somehow miss this part?

[Eichhörnchen]

There's a guy responsible for a number of very charming stop/go animation kids' shows like "Postman Pat" and "Gran". His name is Ivor Wood. There you go: he's a real unfortunate...

[vienna]

Buddahaid might remember a newspaper columnist in San Francisco named Herb Caen. One of the regular features of his column was strange, but true, names. This is from his Sept. 5, 1996 column:


HERBASIDES: Jim Lundberg tips me that the medical team for a cesarean birth procedure at Kaiser a few days ago was Dr. Coffin, the obstetrician; Dr. Fang, the anesthesiologist, and Dr. Payne, the pediatrician . . .


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[Wolferz]

Just came across Barbie Dahl.
The particulars on that name shall remain privy.

[Red October1984]

Did you try to run over them in the Focus?
:haha:

No. But with a name like that... :hmmm:

[CCIP]

In high school we had a great teacher named Mrs. Staples who was expecting, and we kept trying to convince her to name her kid Rusty :haha:

[Jeff-Groves]

Did we somehow miss this part?

Post #10 pointed this out also.
It went over everyone's head because I didn't use a smaller font?
:hmmm:

[Platapus]

One of my mother's friends is named Candy Cane.

Great when you are 6 months old
Awesome if you are a 22 year old stripper
Not so good when you are in your 70's

I used to work with a guy named Jim Wimp. Surprisingly, when he got married he took his wife's last name.

[Stealhead]

My 12th grade literature teacher and swim team coach name was Mr Mast the funny thing was he was fairly short.

[Wolferz]

My high school biology teacher is named Janet Jukoff.
The variations abounded.:haha:

[Lionclaw]

I've heard of a name called Hugh Jazz.

When you pronounce it, it sounds like "huge ass". :-?

[Jimbuna]

I know a bloke called Mike Hunt and many years ago we were both enjoying a pint in our local of the day when the barmaid answered the phone and shouted out across the bar "Has anyone seen Mike Hunt?"

You can imagine the roars of laughter that ensued, added to by the blushing expression on the barmaids face as she realised she was the victim of a practical joke...one of the boys had rang the pub from a public phone box across the street.

[U-15]

Hm, 45 posts before we got to Mike Hunt.
Did expect it earlier.

Anyway, in my 1960s school days I remember the Wolverhampton Director of Education was a Mr. G.W.R. Lines.

For those not familiar with British railway history, GWR also was the initials of the Great Western Railway, hence he was often referred to as Great Western Railway Lines, even if it does sound a mouthful.

A contrived set of names by his parents, no doubt.
Can't believe it's a coincidence.

[Eichhörnchen]

Hm, 45 posts before we got to Mike Hunt.
Did expect it earlier.

http://i.imgur.com/Cy9XLpE.png?1

"Well I don't think that was very nice..."

[U-15]

http://i.imgur.com/Cy9XLpE.png?1

"Well I don't think that was very nice..."

Mary Shytehouse isn't it?

[Eichhörnchen]

http://i.imgur.com/Cy9XLpE.png?1

"That wasn't very nice either, young man..."

[U-15]

Jimbuna's post at #45, reminds of the time when I worked in a bank, just before I joined GPO.

We had a customer whose name was Miss Dick.
I hated it if I had to call her name out, when it was busy.

[Eichhörnchen]

Anyway, in my 1960s school days I remember the Wolverhampton Director of Education was a Mr. G.W.R. Lines. A contrived set of names by his parents, no doubt.
Can't believe it's a coincidence.

When I was 18 I kicked a tin can along the street. A little further down the road a police car pulled up beside me and the passenger cop made it plain that they'd stopped me only reluctantly because some busybody who'd been watching from his garden had asked them to. I could see him watching still.

This busybody was a Mr Train. The tin can later ended up in his garden.

[U-15]

Back in the '80s, I knew a lass from work by the name of Miss Totty.
Certainly not top totty by any stretch of the imagination.

[Eichhörnchen]

http://i.imgur.com/R2DiDDC.jpg?1

"I say, Old Boy: Top Tottie!"

[Herr-Berbunch]

I've worked with lots of people who've taken on humorous nicknames in the forces (little guys called Lofty, one Welsh guy to stop being called Taff took on the moniker Velcro (as in knee pads to grip the sheep better), etc., etc..) One genuine name, however, was Chris Peacock.

[Eichhörnchen]

I did look in our phone directory once, just to see whether there might be an R. Sole, and sure enough there he was...

[U-15]

I did look in our phone directory once, just to see whether there might be an R. Sole, and sure enough there he was...

Don't tell me it was your number :D

[Eichhörnchen]

Bollocks...

[U-15]

Listed in one of my railway history books is an engineer by the name of Hugh Smellie (1840-1891).

An unfortunate surname made even worse by the choice of christian name