[Ken H]

People can overcome their names. Harry Baals, for example, became mayor of Ft. Wayne, IN. They even named a street after him.

Unfortunately, the street signs kept getting stolen so the name was changed to ‘H. W. Baals Drive’.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Baals

[cloudmountain]

Believe it or not there were southeast Asian students with the name Kok and Fucks.
I got an interpreter to speak with each of them and say their name HAD TO CHANGE, especially the latter. HAD TO. The guy who interpreted, whose parents were from southeast Asia, agreed 100% with me.

A few weeks later they both had started the paper work.
One man chose George and the other...I forget.

If I were to live over there and my name meant something dreadful, I would be the FIRST to become MayLin or something similar.

[Mears]

“Gay Street” signs keep getting stolen where I live.

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[Neanderthal]

"People can overcome their names. Harry Baals, for example, became mayor of Ft. Wayne, IN. They even named a street after him."

Hugh Jass has a lot to overcome.

[xrmusn]

People can overcome their names. Harry Baals,
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I had heard but never saw —the USN ship USS Brinkley Bass (DD-887) was ‘always’ getting the 2 B’s painted over.

Not much today (other than defacing a ship) but in late 50s/early 60s that could be considered somewhat ‘risque’

another one used to be Fort Rucker...you could do ‘wonders’ with the “R” especially when a gal answered but
in Morse code an R
is dit dah dit and and F
is dit dit dah dit
and while I am on the subject an A
is dit dah and a U
is dit dit dah,
again a silly little dit could turn a champ into a chump.

Maybe Degenerates should have gone with ta tas????

[rlmorel]

I knew a guy named Dick Ball who lived on Cox street.

No lie!