Unfortunate Names

[KrauserKrauser]

I go through seniority lists daily at the job and run into some doozies. My favorites are a certain fellow with the last name of Morecock and another with the first initial I and the last name Brown.

He comes up in our system as Brown I.

Anyone else have good ones?

[Coyote]

Ben Dover
Turner Brown
Phil McCracken
Dick Fitswell
Wilma Fingerdew
Gerald Fitzpatrick
Patrick Fitzgerald
Randy Johnson

[fgalkin]

What abput Gerald Fitzgerald and Patrick Fitzpatrick?

Or Ivan Ivanovich Ivanov?

Have a very nice day.
-fgalkin

[General Zod]

A guy where I work has the name Chris I. This normally wouldn't be an issue, but for our email we use a <first name last initial> format. So his name gets displayed as Chrisi when sending emails out.

[El Moose Monstero]

There was a Sean Beaver in my girlfriend's class, someone called Andrew Dick at my university, which meant his email address was a.dick@..., not to mention the numerous godawful names my girlfriend brings home from her work as a family photographer. Someone had called their children Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter... and a woman called Mrs. Beach came in with her children Sandy and Pebble. Sometimes, you just can't make this shit up.

[FA Xerrik]

I remember a guy a few years older than myself back in high school by the name of Willy Horny. It added a little something special when he started dating Judy Whacker.

[CaptainChewbacca]

I had a math teacher named Martin Martin. He was hispanic, so he prounounced the first one the anglo way and the last name Mar-teen.

[Dartzap]

I always thought the bloke in charge of the RAF had an amazing name: Sir Jock Stirrup.

[spaceviking]

My grandfather's name is Harwood Hancock, though most people called him Richard

[consequences]

John Lennon Fake
Sergeant Lovely
Seaman Swallows

All real, and all willingly joined the military.

[Master of Cards]

Ben Harder, I met this kid in middle school and I felt sorry for him so much.

[kinnison]

Never met the girl, but there was someone at my high school whose surname was Thicknesse. Which is bad enough, but then her parents decided to give her three given names; Caroline Ursula Nancy. Think about it!

[frogcurry]

My Norwegian colleague:

Mr. Odd Balle jr.

The best part is, this also means that there is an Odd Balle snr. out there too!

[Lord Pounder]

My dad had a friend called Billy Nutt, he called his daughter Hazel. Don't forget Obama's friend Randy Bumgardner. If your ancestors trade gave them the surname what the fuck did Randy's family do?

[andrewgpaul]

The local doctor in the village where I went on holiday as a child answered to the name of Dr Donald Duck.

[Temjin]

Back in Elementary I was friends with this kid called, and I"m serious, "Dang Ho."

For some reason, I didn't get the joke till years later.

[Sturmfalke]

If your ancestors trade gave them the surname what the fuck did Randy's family do?

They probably worked as gardeners for trees. If his ancestors were from German-speaking countries:

Baumgärtner (~tree gardener) -> Bumgardner

[Zac Naloen]

I work at the same company as a girl called Holly Grewcock.


It's made more amusing by the fact that she is actually quite attractive.

[Lagmonster]

There's a rather stunning blond who worked with me some time ago with the unfortunate last name of "Laycock". She'd heard *all* the jokes.

[Executor32]

When I was a kid, one of the kids down the street was named Richard Byrne. Also, there was a trucker who stopped in once by the name of Isaac Hunt. He proved his name correct, too, he was a real douchebag.

[White Haven]

It's been a long time so I don't recall all the details, but I went to middle school with two black girls named different alternative spellings of the word 'Unique' for a first name.

The irony was lost to them.

[Maxentius]

A good friend of mine's father is named Richard Handler. He also happens to be a Doctor.

So it's either Doctor Dick or Dick Handler.

[Isolder74]

what about that kid who's parents named him Adolf Hitler?


I can't imagine living with that one.

[FSTargetDrone]

The NYE Mets baseball Squardron has a pitcher named J. J. Putz:

But he's a damn Met, so it's appropriate.

[Coyote]

Turns out a friend of mine went to a university course taught by a professor Richard "Dick" Payne.

Maybe he should go talk to Dr. Dick Handler?