Sweden Blocks Idea to Name Baby Superman

Yahoo! News ^ | Tue, May 06, 2003 | AP

[Mad Dawgg]

"While there was a famous Houstonian named Ima Hogg...she had no sister named Ura."

Back when I was in high school I knew a Teacher who's name was Mr. Dick and he married a lady named Etta!

I am not making this up!

[WaveThatFlag]

I know a urologist named Dick plummer. Seriously. As far as I know, he is not married to a proctologist named Fanny.

[AnAmericanMother]

My husband's proctologist is named Dr. Sunshine.

The proctologist in the student health center at my college was named Dr. Pyle. Given a choice between the two, I think I'd prefer Dr. Sunshine . . . although you can imagine the kidding he gets from everybody.

The Remarkable Names book includes a Dr. and Dr. Doctor (one M.D. married another) and a psychiatrist named Dr. Dotti.

[Mr. Silverback]

I'm torn between supporting the parents' freedom to bestow their choice of names on their children, and the need to nip in the bud whatever stupidity causes people to do things like you mentioned.

Ronald Reagan once said, "Freedom should include the right to be stupid if you want to be."

[Mr. Silverback]

Buttercup Gigglebrains reporting for duty.

Of course, I got Pinky Pizzabutt when I used my FR callsign...

[Mr. Silverback]

My "health" teacher (read: sex ed and some other crap cobbled together with it) in HS was Jack Dick. He eventually ran off with a lovely young student. Insert your joke here.

[Mr. Silverback]

There's a Cardinal Sin in the Phillipines.

[Consort]

[flying Elvis]

At least here, if your parents don't screw up your life with a goofy name, you can rectify the situation and change your own to something worse. There are 6 Heywood Jablomes listed in the phonebook. http://kevdb.infospace.com/_1_NJ5TRG0CDPGI__aolwp.aols/wp/results/kevdb?OTMPL=/wp/results.htm&QFM=N&QK=5&QN=jablome&KCFG=US&ran=29814

[flying Elvis]

The Navy doctor at the Atlanta MEPS station back in the 80s was Mortimer Hacker.

[AdmSmith]

Talking about strange names check this out

http://muetze.net/links/fun/ap-sound.html

Recently two wise guys were in Heathrow Airport in London carrying out the following gag: they started to write strange names on a piece of paper and then brought them to the information desk so that they could call out the names of these fictitious people over the public intercom: