Posted on 02/27/2010 7:08:16 AM PST by JoeProBono
“Recording artist” Ben Colder was actually actor Sheb Wolley, from High Noon and Rawhide.
I get a kick out of people who have very normal names but they mirror their professions. For example, there was once a guy who ran the navy payroll named Captain Cash.
I’ve actually come across a real person named Dick Hare.
My wife's high school friend in high school was Eugene Silvertooth....but from high school on he went by "Chip"...Chip Silvertooth. He's a dentist now...
Very Christian couple in Orlando tried to have children for years, with no success.
Finally, at age 35+, she became pregnant with a son.
They decided to name him “Than Kevin XXXXX” (last name redacted.)
“Than Kevin” was to be word play on “Thank Heaven” because she finally got pregnant, etc.
But they finally decided they didn't like name Kevin.
So they named him Than Arnold!
In our town there’s a Dr. Doctor. We always kid each other that it’s a shame he’s a dentist instead of a medical doctor; it would be more fun if he were “Dr. Doctor, Mr. M.D.” as in the Young Rascals song.
Baby’s Named a Bad, Bad Thing PING
Said hooker and pimp/boyfriend set him up and the end game was he was found buckass nekkid and emptyhanded on the streets of downtown Chicago. I think his wife was rather pissed off.
I knew a guy named Richard Lymp .... seriously.
And there is a street in El Monte named “Michael Hunt St.” I don’t even wanna abbreviate that one.
Good grief! One doesn’t know whether to laugh or cry.
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Is his wife called Incontenetia....http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FByERYetqI
With a name like that he was destined to be noticed. Although I don’t think his parents quite envisioned it in that manner. lol
“...I knew a guy named Dick Hair.”
Many years ago I heard of a guy named Harold (Harry) Dick. I didn’t believe it till I looked him up in the phone book.
1. Nickname test: What bad words could their names be easily changed to.
2. Initial test: When you took their initials, what would it look or sound like.
3. The embarrassment test. You had to be able to yell their name as loud as you could and not sound foolish.
It was amazing how many names were immediately removed from consideration.
At my college graduation, a kid bought a cap and gown and snuck in. Each student wrote his name on a card which was handed to the announcer guy to read aloud as the student got his diploma. What name did the joker kid write? Hugh G. Rection. The guy read the name, and the place erupted in laughter that lasted ten minutes.
There is a kid in my son’s class named Harry Mann. What were his parents thinking?
Pretty close to a guy I worked with: Richard Stiff.
And, yeah, he was a little touchy about his name.
It really is a nice name. It was just funky that he introduced himself as “Tom Sawyer the lawyer” rather than use “attorney”. He must have been having fun with it.
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